Tommaso M. Milani
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tommaso M. Milani is involved.
Journals
ISSN 1569-2159 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9862
Language, Culture and Society
General Editor: Alfonso Del Percio and Cécile B. Vigouroux
ISSN 2543-3164 | E‑ISSN 2543‑3156
ISSN 2214-9953 | E‑ISSN 2214‑9961
The Political Economy of Linguistic Landscapes
Edited by Johan Järlehed, Tommaso M. Milani and Tove Rosendal
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 9:3 (2023) v, 109 pp.
Gender, Sexuality & Linguistic Landscapes
Edited by Tommaso M. Milani
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 4:3 (2018) v, 119 pp.
Language and Citizenship: Broadening the agenda
Edited by Tommaso M. Milani
This volume offers fresh, cutting-edge perspectives on issues of language and citizenship by casting a critical light on a broad spectrum of geo-political contexts – Flanders, Luxembourg, Singapore, South Africa, the UK - and discourse data – policy documents, newspaper articles, ethnographic notes… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 91] 2017. v, 162 pp.
Language & Citizenship
Edited by Tommaso M. Milani
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 14:3 (2015) v, 160 pp.
Thematising Multilingualism in the Media
Edited by Helen Kelly-Holmes and Tommaso M. Milani
This volume analyses the complex relations between multilingualism and the media: how the media manage multilingualism; how multilingualism is presented and used as media content; and how the media are discursive sites where debates about multilingualism and other language-related issues unfold. It… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 49] 2013. v, 151 pp.
Thematising Multilingualism in the Media
Edited by Helen Kelly-Holmes and Tommaso M. Milani
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 10:4 (2011) v, 153 pp.
2023 Introducing the political economy of language in place/space The Political Economy of Linguistic Landscapes, Järlehed, Johan, Tommaso M. Milani and Tove Rosendal (eds.), pp. 219–225 | Introduction
2023 Language, translocality and urban change: Online and offline signage in four Gothenburg neighbourhoods Linguistic Landscape 9:2, pp. 181–210 | Article
This article addresses the role of translocal interconnectedness between offline and online spaces by examining the varied presence of language displays in such spaces. Quantitative findings on language presence in the offline public spaces of four Gothenburg neighbourhoods are contrasted with… read more
2020 No-go zones in Sweden: The infectious communicability of evil Language, Culture and Society 2:1, pp. 7–36 | Article
The focus of this article is on the mundane nastiness of language. Drawing on Arendt’s (1963) banality of evil and Briggs’s (2005) notion of infectious communicability, the article highlights the moral dimensions of political and media discourses that spread a communicable image of Sweden as a… read more
2018 Introduction Gender, Sexuality & Linguistic Landscapes, Milani, Tommaso M. (ed.), pp. 209–213 | Introduction
2018 Tel Aviv as a space of affirmation versus transformation: Language, citizenship, and the politics of sexuality in Israel Gender, Sexuality & Linguistic Landscapes, Milani, Tommaso M. (ed.), pp. 278–297 | Article
In this article we investigate the spatial politics of sexuality in Israel by focusing on two different but related data sets: (1) the official video for Tel Aviv Pride 2013 produced by the Mizrahi Jewish music group Arisa; and (2) a protest against the Occupation of Palestine performed at Tel… read more
2017 Language and citizenship: Broadening the agenda Language and Citizenship: Broadening the agenda, Milani, Tommaso M. (ed.), pp. 1–16 | Article
The main argument advanced in this article that frames this special issue is that citizenship is not just a highly polysemic word employed by the media and other political institutions; it is also a set of norms and (linguistic) behaviours that individuals are socialised into, as well as a series… read more
2017 Sexual cityzenship: Discourses, spaces and bodies at Joburg Pride 2012 Language and Citizenship: Broadening the agenda, Milani, Tommaso M. (ed.), pp. 113–136 | Article
This article explores an incident that took place in the context of Joburg Pride 2012, where the activist group One in Nine Campaign attempted to temporarily stop the Pride parade through means of a die-in protest, resulting in resistance and violence on the part of the Pride participants. The… read more
2015 The performativity of the body: Turbulent spaces in Greece Linguistic Landscape 1:3, pp. 268–290 | Article
This article explores the “performativity of the body” (Butler, 2011) using ‘anarchic’ and ‘anti-authoritarian’ protests in Greece as empirical starting points. We analyze the ways in which bodies speak politically by producing spatial turbulence in interaction with other bodies, and the… read more
2015 From sexual deviants to politically emancipated queers: Changing representations of gay and lesbian identities in South Africa Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics: South African political discourses, Dedaić, Mirjana N. (ed.), pp. 147–167 | Article
This chapter investigates the evolving representation of gay and lesbian identities in three non-fiction books: Male Homosexuality (1992), Defiant Desire (1994), and Tommy Boys (2005). This study tracks how the representations of gay and lesbian identities change as political and public discourses… read more
2015 Sexual cityzenship: Discourses, spaces and bodies at Joburg Pride 2012 Language & Citizenship, Milani, Tommaso M. (ed.), pp. 431–454 | Article
This article explores an incident that took place in the context of Joburg Pride 2012, where the activist group One in Nine Campaign attempted to temporarily stop the Pride parade through means of a die-in protest, resulting in resistance and violence on the part of the Pride participants. The… read more
2015 Language and citizenship: Broadening the agenda Language & Citizenship, Milani, Tommaso M. (ed.), pp. 319–334 | Article
The main argument advanced in this article that frames this special issue is that citizenship is not just a highly polysemic word employed by the media and other political institutions; it is also a set of norms and (linguistic) behaviours that individuals are socialised into, as well as a series… read more
2013 Thematising multilingualism in the media Thematising Multilingualism in the Media, Kelly-Holmes, Helen and Tommaso M. Milani (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article
The focus of this volume is on the opportunities presented and challenges posed by the thematisation of multilingualism in the media. A number of case studies from a variety of linguistic, media, political, social, economic and educational contexts are presented, with the objective of addressing… read more
2013 Expanding the Queer Linguistic scene: Multimodality, space and sexuality at a South African university. Journal of Language and Sexuality 2:2, pp. 206–234 | Article
This paper investigates the relationships between gender, sexuality and space, understood both in material and discursive terms. To this end, it brings under the spotlight Safe Zones, an anti-homophobia campaign spearheaded in 2011 and 2012 by the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg,… read more
2013 Chapter 6. A new South African man? Beer, masculinity and social change Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, struggle and change, Atanga, Lilian Lem, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland (eds.), pp. 131–148 | Article
In recent years, the ‘New Man’ has gained considerable momentum as a model of masculinity in South African
advertising. It is with a view to better understanding what this cultural idea of the ‘New Man’ looks like that we analyse a television advertisement for a popular South African beer, Carling… read more
2013 Unity in disunity: Centripetal and centrifugal tensions on the BBC Voices website Thematising Multilingualism in the Media, Kelly-Holmes, Helen and Tommaso M. Milani (eds.), pp. 121–147 | Article
This chapter takes as a point of departure the website of the “Voices” project, a large media enterprise on languages in the UK conducted by the BBC in 2003–2005. With the help of the notions of language ideology and the analytical tools of multimodal critical discourse analysis, the paper shows… read more
2011 Thematising multilingualism in the media Thematising Multilingualism in the Media, Kelly-Holmes, Helen and Tommaso M. Milani (eds.), pp. 467–489 | Article
The focus of this special issue is on the opportunities presented and challenges posed by the thematisation of multilingualism in the media. A number of case studies from a variety of linguistic, media, political, social, economic and educational contexts are presented, with the objective of… read more
2011 Unity in disunity: Centripetal and centrifugal tensions on the BBC Voices website Thematising Multilingualism in the Media, Kelly-Holmes, Helen and Tommaso M. Milani (eds.), pp. 587–614 | Article
This paper takes as a point of departure the website of the “Voices” project, a large media enterprise on languages in the UK conducted by the BBC in 2003–2005. With the help of the notions of language ideology and the analytical tools of multimodal critical discourse analysis, the paper shows how… read more
2009 At the intersection between power and knowledge: An analysis of a Swedish policy document on language testing for citizenship Journal of Language and Politics 8:2, pp. 287–304 | Article
The aim of this article is to analyse a policy document in which the Swedish Liberal Party attempts to substantiate the proposal to introduce a Swedish language test for naturalisation by referring to academic production. Taking this specific text as a case in point, the article draws upon… read more
2008 Language politics and legitimation crisis in Sweden: A Habermasian approach Language Problems and Language Planning 32:1, pp. 1–22 | Article
Since the late 1990s the question of whether to ratify the status of Swedish as the “principal” language of Sweden by means of a language law has been subject to considerable public dispute. Drawing on Blommaert’s concept of a “language ideological debate,” we explore how and why this particular… read more