Discourse Analysis, Multimodality,visual Social Semiotics

On the basis of Adler's (1975) concept of the 'dark side of emancipation' of women, the following study reflects on the ideological implications that the shifts of interpersonal meanings in translation may bear on the construction of televised 'Camorra ladies'. Specific attention will be paid to the gender-related discourses of the source Neapolitan culture, and the way they are deliberately and often misleadingly re-crafted and re-stereotyped in AVT according to the target audience's pre-supposed cognitive models. The research uses data from the Gomorrah Project Corpus (GPC) comprising the Italian and English subtitles of the first 3 seasons of Gomorrah – The Series. The corpus, which is part of a larger research project, has been annotated to allow the identification of given linguistic traits that are peculiar to the female characters' idiolects in both the Italian subtitles and their English adaptation. Therefore, the analysis of such data will allow for a better understanding of the cultural repercussions in the translation of specific identity cues that are particularly related to the local criminal context represented in the TV series.

The I-LanD Journal (http://iniziative-editoriali.it/shop/i-land-journal-identity-language-anddiversity/) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high-quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity in different discourses from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed. In fulfilment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.
Through this Call for Special Issue the editorial team of the I-LanD Journal intends to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure.
Proposals for a Special Issue should have a unifying theme and reflect, at an international level, the work in a particular research area in which future investigation may be boosted by the publication of a set of excellent papers. Proposals for a Special Issue should be sent to the two Editors-in-Chief of the Journal (ilandjournal@unior.it) by January 20, 2018 and contain:
• the name and e-mail address for communication of prospective Guest Editors (at least two); to improve the Journal’s geographical variety and internationalization, at least one of the Guest Editors’ countries of affiliation should be different from the others;
• a working title;
• a 500-word rationale clearly explaining the scope and significance of the proposed theme;
• the name of ten possible reviewers of the single papers who are not involved in any way in the preparation of the Special Issue.
The special issue is planned for December 2018, so the publication calendar for Guest Editors
is the following:
- Publication of the call for papers by guest editors: by February 16, 2018
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by March 18, 2018
- Submission of chapters to guest editors: by September 2, 2018
- Submission of proofs to contributors: by the beginning of November 2018
- Submission of final manuscript: by the end of November 2018
The length of individual papers is usually about 7-8,000 words, excluding references. The number of papers in a Special Issue is usually between 6 and 8, but could include more if justified.
The selection of the best proposal is the outcome of a collaborative evaluation by all members of the editorial team according to the following criteria:
• suitability of the topic for the I-LanD Journal;
• overall quality of the proposal: originality and contribution to the field;
• theoretical background of the rationale and individual papers;
• methodological adequacy of the individual papers;
• completeness of the proposal;
• feasibility of the plan for delivery.
The Editors-in-Chief of the I-LanD Journal, together with a number of Advisory Board members selected according to the proposed topics, will examine all proposals and their decision will be communicated to the Guest Editors by January, 28th 2018. Once a high-quality proposal has been selected from among those submitted, it will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors to proceed within the agreed time limit.
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille)
Maria Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope)

I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity
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Open Call for Special Issue Proposals
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity n. 1 - 2019


The I-LanD Journal (http://iniziative-editoriali.it/shop/i-land-journal-identity-language-and-diversity/) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high-quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity in different discourses from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.

Through this Call for Special Issue the editorial team of the I-LanD Journal intends to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure.

Proposals for a Special Issue should have a unifying theme and reflect, at an international level, the work in a particular research area in which future investigation may be boosted by the publication of a set of excellent papers. Proposals for a Special Issue should be sent to the two Editors-in-Chief of the Journal (ilandjournal@unior.it) by July 30, 2018 and contain:
• the name and e-mail address for communication of prospective Guest Editors (at least two); to improve the Journal’s geographical variety and internationalization, at least one of the Guest Editors’ countries of affiliation should be different from the others;
• a working title;
• a 500 word rationale clearly explaining the scope and significance of the proposed theme;
• the name of ten possible reviewers of the single papers who are not involved in any way in the preparation of the Special Issue.

The special issue is planned for June 2019, so the publication calendar for Guest Editors is the following:

- Publication of the call for papers by guest editors: by September 10, 2018
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by October 19, 2018
- Submission of chapters to guest editors: by March 11, 2019
- Submission of proofs to contributors: by mid-April 2019
- Submission of final manuscript: by mid-May 2019

The length of individual papers is usually about 7-8,000 words, excluding references. The number of papers in a Special Issue is usually between 6 and 8, but could include more if justified.

The selection of the best proposal is the outcome of a collaborative evaluation by all members of the editorial team according to the following criteria:
• suitability of the topic for the I-LanD Journal;
• overall quality of the proposal: originality and contribution to the field;
• theoretical background of the rationale and individual papers;
• methodological adequacy of the individual papers;
• completeness of the proposal;
• feasibility of the plan for delivery.

The Editors-in-Chief of the I-LanD Journal, together with a number of Advisory Board members selected according to the proposed topics, will examine all proposals and their decision will be communicated to the Guest Editors by August 16, 2018. Once a high-quality proposal has been selected from among those submitted, it will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors to proceed within the agreed time limit.

We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille)
Maria Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope)

Resources such as images, colors, sounds and actions
have already been regarded as different types of modes
which fulfill the meaning-making. Multimodal discourse
refers to two or more modes working together for the
meaning-making of the whole discourse. The paper
conducts a multimodal discourse analysis of Persian
language-learning textbook from ideational aspects.
Persian language-learning textbooks give almost equal
weight to both their pictures and verbal texts. The study of
ideational aspect focuses on factors such as participants,
processes (action, reactional, etc.), circumstance, etc.
This article has a two-fold objective: (1) to discuss how
the system of transitivity in Kress and van Leeuwen’s
Visual Grammar (1996) for the analysis of images is
related to the system of transitivity in Halliday’s Systemic
Functional Grammar (2004) and (2) to investigate how
multimodal texts combine in meaning production. In
terms of a theoretical discussion about visual language,
the study of Visual Grammar is relevant, considering the
need for investigating the ways this kind of grammar can
contribute for language teaching. The analysis reveals the
pictures’ functions in meaning interpretation and explains
the relations between the pictures and the verbal texts.
Key words: Visual Grammar; multimodality;
transitivity; Persian language-learning textbook