Representations of Citizens/hip in 230 Years of American History. A Diachronic Corpus-assisted Approach

Cinzia Bevitori; Anna Marchi

doi:10.6092/issn.2611-2752/13995

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Cinzia Bevitori Università di Bologna https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1288-4371

Cinzia Bevitori is Associate Professor at Bologna University’s Department of Interpreting and Translation and teaches English language and linguistics in the first cycle degree International and Diplomatic sciences, and Analysis of Political Language in the second cycle degree Mass Media e Politics. Her main research interests involve corpus research methodologies, corpus-assisted (critical) discourse studies, focussing in particular on institutional, political and media discourse, within the framework of systemic functional linguistics. Amongst her recent publications in the field are Construing justice: Discourses of ‘rightness’ in the House of Commons: A diachronic corpus-assisted discourse study (de Gruyter 2020); ‘in a world of complex threats...’: Discourses of in/security in the State of the Union Address (1790-2014), in Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 2017; Diachronic change from Washington to Obama: the challenges and constraints of corpus-assisted meaning analysis, (with Paul Bayley, Equinox, 2016).
Anna Marchi University of Bologna https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1284-6356
Anna Marchi is a senior assistant professor of English language and linguistics at Bologna University’s Department of Interpreting and Translation. Her research interests include corpus-assisted discourse methods, news discourse and political discourse. Among her recent publications: Self-reflexive Journalism: A Corpus Study of Journalistic Culture and Community in the Guardian(Routledge 2019), Corpus Approaches to Discourse: A Critical Review (Routledge 2018) and “Churchill’s inter-subjective special relationship: A corpus-assisted discourse approach” (in Dobson & Marsh eds. Churchill and the Anglo-American Special Relationship, Routledge 2017). She studied journalism at the University of Siena and at the University of Texas and earned a PhD in English language and linguistics at Lancaster University. She has worked on international interdisciplinary projects at the universities of Siena, Cardiff, Swansea and Lancaster.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-2752/13995

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Citizenship, US Presidents, American Political History, Corpus Linguistics, Political Discourse

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The paper examines how American presidents have discursively constructed citizens (and citizenship) over more than two hundred years of American political history from an interdisciplinary perspective. As one deeply contested concept in different political arenas (Wiesner et al 2017), involving aspects of collective identities, citizens/hip has been at the very heart of Western democracies since ancient times, although its significance has gradually increased in modern periods (Marshall 1950, Bayley et al. 2013).

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