Jacopo Castaldi

Lecturer in Applied Linguistics. Interested in Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies, Ideology and Manipulation.

[Jacopo Castaldi @JacopoCastaldi]

The deadline for the submission of abstracts (30th November) for CCL4 on ‘Culture and Cognition in Language’ at the University of Rzeszow is fast approaching. Keynote speakers include the amazing @_chris_hart. Don’t miss out!
https://t.co/Rom2iz370w

[Multimodality & Society Journal @sage_MMS]

Our call for papers for our 2026 special issue on ‘textu(r)alities: Semiotics, bodies, texts’ is now open! Send your abstracts to [email protected] and [email protected] by the 24th of January 2025. More details here - https://t.co/cbbyWOsbje

[CADAAD Journal @CadaadJournal]

The journal now has a shiny new website, too! You can find it here: https://t.co/oLrCEn4vGd

[CADAAD Journal @CadaadJournal]

Exciting news! The CADAAD Journal is now officially part of University of Groningen Press.
We would also like to welcome new incoming co-editors, Dimitris Serafis @DimitriSrf and Stavros Assimakopoulos @StavrosLing, who were instrumental in making this transition possible.

[Jacopo Castaldi @JacopoCastaldi]

@anais_auge @RoutledgeLing Thank you 🙏🏼

[Jacopo Castaldi @JacopoCastaldi]

I finally have a release date for my first monograph (April 2025) in the @RoutledgeLing Studies in Multimodality series. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me throughout the process, personally and professionally 🙏🏼

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[Jacopo Castaldi @JacopoCastaldi]

Yesterday Ewa Konieczna, Bożena Duda, Paulina Mormol and I had the pleasure to convene a seminar on linguistic approaches to the study of manipulation at the 2024 Conference of the European Society for the Study of English. Thanks to everyone for the great discussions!

[Dimitris Serafis | @dimitrisrf.bsky.social @DimitriSrf]

We are hiring! Come and work w/ me, @neous and Jan Albert van Laar on corpus-assisted #multimodality research, multimodal #argumentation, and #hatespeech at @univgroningen https://t.co/iQdY36KsQ5

[Jacopo Castaldi @JacopoCastaldi]

All set up and ready to start tomorrow at the 5th Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics, in beautiful Lund. I’ll be talking about applying a Critical Realist epistemology to the analysis of multimodal texts and their interpretation. Super excited!

[Frontiers - Communication @FrontComm]

New eBook! Join +24k scholars in checking out this brilliant Research Topic, led by @neous and Claudia Lehmann.

[Jacopo Castaldi @JacopoCastaldi]

Great to hold this beautiful volume in my hands!

[Jacopo Castaldi @JacopoCastaldi]

Well, that’s a wrap after three intense days at @CADAAD_conf. Great to share ideas and to get some feedback on the way I started to operationalise the refined definitions of semiotic modes and semiotic resources I proposed earlier this year. Thank to all the great colleagues!

[Jacopo Castaldi @JacopoCastaldi]

My first @CADAAD_conf and what a great conference it’s been so far! Thank you to all those in attendance for their attention and contributions and thank you to the organisers! Thank you @marinabranc for the pic!

[Marina Brancaccio @marinabranc]

@JacopoCastaldi’s interesting talk on the representation of the Ukrainian Displaced People diaspora on British Television at @CADAAD_conf now.

[Jacopo Castaldi @JacopoCastaldi]

@marinabranc @CADAAD_conf Thank you!

[Jacopo Castaldi @JacopoCastaldi]

Fresh off the (digital) press and fully open access. A Research Topic full of very interesting contributions inspired by the work of John Bateman. Thanks to @neous and Claudia Lehmann for their efforts editing the collection and to all the contributors and reviewers!

[Jacopo Castaldi @JacopoCastaldi]

@neous @tuomo_h @chiaoitseng @LoliKim7 @ElenaMattei10 @annawilson Thank you and Claudia for making it happen!

[Jacopo Castaldi @JacopoCastaldi]

The edited book ‘Semiotics and Visual Communication IV: Myths of Today’ is finally out. I’m delighted to have contributed a chapter entitled ‘Keeping the myth of the British Empire alive: combining a multimodal analysis of two BBC travel documentaries with audience research’.

[Jacopo Castaldi @JacopoCastaldi]

Day 2 of the International Conference on Semiotics of Culture and Visual Communication where I discussed the application of the refined concepts of semiotic modes and semiotic resources I advanced in a recent paper. Big ‘thank you’ to all those present for the discussion!

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@AgneseLombardi @inpra2024 @GloriaCappelli Great conference! Well done again!

[Jacopo Castaldi @JacopoCastaldi]

Great to have presented some preliminary notes from my new research project on the representation of Ukrainian Displaced People on British television. Believe it or not, it is my first Italian conference ever, in Pisa, @inpra2024. Thanks to organisers and delegates!