Fabio I.M. Poppi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Fabio I.M. Poppi is involved.
2026 Tempus mutans: Temporal change in the crafting styles of forced migrants’ narratives about host societies: Temporal change in the crafting styles of forced migrants’ narratives about host societies Narrative Inquiry: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines how migrants’ narrative form changes over time when the host society is treated as an external object of evaluation. Two interview waves with five West African migrants in Southern Italy (2018; 2023–2024) are analyzed across three domains: Economic–Political, Socio–Cultural,… read more
2026 Modus narrandi sceleris: Temporal shift in the crafting style of crime narratives Narrative Inquiry 36:1, pp. 133–159 | Article
This study contributes to a methodological debate within narrative studies, emerging from the specific context of narrative criminology. It examines the evolution of storytelling styles, focusing on how the narrative selection process shapes a narrative, thereby revealing both the origins of… read more
2021 Sancte et sapienter: Joint fantasizing as the interactional practice of micro and macro contextual understanding Pragmatics and Society 12:3, pp. 437–460 | Article
The practice of joint fantasizing concerns interacting participants’ collective construction of imaginary realities with internal consistency and coherence. Based on a corpus of conversations held by an informal Italian prayer community of elderly Catholic women, this contribution aims to show… read more
2020 Arcana imperii: The power of humorous retorts to insults on Twitter Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 8:1, pp. 57–87 | Article
This paper reports the findings of a study on the mechanics of insult-retort adjacency pairs in Twitter interactions. The analysis concerns primarily the humorous retorts made by the pornographic entrepreneur Stormy Daniels, who has been pelted with politically-loaded misogynist insults, many of… read more
2020 A bene placito : Narratives of sex work Narrative Inquiry 30:2, pp. 294–315 | Article
Sex work is often interpreted through master narratives that see women as victimized and subjected to stigmas and negative attitudes. This paper offers an insight into narratives that challenge or can be seen as an alternative to these narratives. Data are from a sample of 15 interviews with… read more
2019 Actiones secundum fidei : Antithesis and metaphoric conceptualization in Banksy’s graffiti art Metaphor and the Social World 9:1, pp. 83–106 | Article
In this article, we describe how antithesis and metaphoric conceptualization interact with each other and which rhetorical effects this interaction brings about. We illustrate this interaction with an analysis of seventeen graffiti artworks by Banksy, who uses the contraposition of visual… read more
2018 Machina ex homine, homo ex machina: Metaphor and ideology in Shinya Tsukamoto’s “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” Metaphor and the Social World 8:2, pp. 207–228 | Article
In this article, I identify and describe multimodal hybrid metaphors—the conceptual representation of two elements represented as merged into a new single ‘gestalt’—represented by the machine and human body domains in “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” (鉄男: Tetsuo), a Japanese avant-garde film. Since… read more
2018 Aliud pro alio : Context and narratives within a neo-Nazi community of practice Journal of Language and Politics 17:4, pp. 552–572 | Article
This article explores how narratives create connections between the micro-context and the macro-context, focusing on the narratives produced by a neo-Nazi group within ‘Blood and Honour’, a neo-Nazi gathering in Italy. The analysis presents a series of thematic narratives that describe how the… read more