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19/12/2025

We are very happy to announce that the new issue of SQ is now out:

https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/status_quaestionis/issue/view/1695
Happy festivities break 🎄🤶🎅🧑‍🎄🪅

09/10/2025

📣📣New CfP!! 📣📣

CfP: Post-truth and populism in politics, communication and discourse
Edited by Massimiliano Demata and Donatella Montini

Read more at:

CfP: Post-truth and populism in politics, communication and discourse (SQ December 2026) 2025-10-09 This issue of Status Quaestionis seeks to investigate contemporary political communication from a sociolinguistic perspective, with particular attention to the phenomena of post-truth and populist dis...

27/06/2025

Siamo lieti di annunciarvi che il nuovo numero di Status Quaestions è ora disponibile al seguente link:
https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/status_quaestionis
La sezione monografica dal titolo
“Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? The Art of the Ephemeral in Eighteenth-Century France” offre un’interessante panoramica sull’argomento, curata da Elisa Cazzato.
La sezione di miscellanea è come sempre dedicata ad argomenti sia di letteratura che di linguistica, mentre tra le recensioni troverete importanti spunti di lettura!
Happy reading!

Status Quaestionis is a space of interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange. A biannual journal that includes a Literature and a Linguistics issue – both of which are monographic with a miscellany section – SQ is especially interested in comparative and intercultural studies, in methodological...

23/12/2024

The Editorial Team at SQ is happy to announce that the new issue is now out, featuring a monograph section edited by
Marina Bondi and Silvia Cacchiani, along with a series of articles in the miscellaneous section and interesting book reviews. Happy ready and happy festivities break 🎄🎄🎄

Status Quaestionis is a space of interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange. A biannual journal that includes a Literature and a Linguistics issue – both of which are monographic with a miscellany section – SQ is especially interested in comparative and intercultural studies, in methodological...

20/11/2024

Please note that we are no longer on X. News about future publications etc will be posted here. Stay tuned 😊

23/06/2024

Dear All,

We’re very happy to inform you that the new issue of SQ is now out. A very rich and intriguing volume with special section devoted to comparative literature.
Find out more here:

23/12/2023

We are happy to inform you that the new issue of SQ in now out with an extremely interesting issue edited by Fabio Ciambella and many other thought-provoking articles included in the miscellaneous section. You might also like to read the book reviews 😉

Old Language(s), New Technologies: Corpus Linguistics and European Languages in the Renaissance, 1400s-1600s 2022-09-30 The Renaissance is universally acknowledged to be a crucial moment in Europe for the development of vernacular national languages which begin to establish their prestige alongside....

24/12/2022

Our Xmas treat is the new issue of SQ "Into the Translation for Museums, Festivals, and the Stage: Creativity and the Transmedial Turn", edited by Alessandra Rizzo. Happy reading!

Into the Translation for Museums, Festivals, and the Stage: Creativity and the Transmedial Turn Authors Alessandra Rizzo University of Palermo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1645-5072 DOI: https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/18213 Abstract With the objective of scrutinising general standards, specific c...

30/09/2022

New Call for Papers
Old Language(s), New Technologies: Corpus Linguistics and European Languages in the Renaissance, 1400s-1600s
2022-09-30
The Renaissance is universally acknowledged to be a crucial moment in Europe for the development of vernacular national languages which begin to establish their prestige alongside Latin. Historical linguists have focused on the many interesting peculiarities of the European vernaculars in this period, such as the high degree of spelling fluctuation, (non-)lexicalisation of words, phonological and morphological adjustments, semantic shifts, etc. When it comes to diachronic approaches to corpus linguistics, however, scholars are sometimes sceptic about the possibilities offered by machine-readable samples of both literary and non-literary texts belonging to the Renaissance. This scepticism mainly derives from the debated issue of normalising/modernising corpora, thus eliminating, for instance, questions of variant spelling and part-of-speech (PoS) tagging. Such manipulations make examinations easier and more robust, at least from a quantitative point of view, but at the same time they rule out the possibility of investigating the potentials that such variations may offer to the understanding of intra- and interlinguistic phenomena. Some attempts have been made to automatise the process of modernisation of the spelling or the morphological inflections in corpora of Renaissance texts (e.g., the VARD software), and yet a linguistically and methodologically meaningful rationale must be developed by researchers to achieve satisfying results.



Moving from these premises, this issue of Status Quaestionis aims, on the one hand, to present theoretical considerations about the advantages and disadvantages of modernising corpora through (semi-)automated processes, and, on the other, to offer corpus-based analyses of monolingual and multilingual historical corpora from Renaissance Europe. Contributions will be focused on (but not limited to) the following research areas:

Theoretical perspectives about variant normalisation/modernisation of fifteenth- to seventeenth-century European corpora.
New corpus-based technologies for the exploration of diachronic corpora.
Case studies that involve monolingual/multilingual corpora showing advantages and/or disadvantages of the normalisation of spelling, morphological patterns, etc.
Corpus-driven explorations of historical corpora with reference to processes of intra- and inter-linguistic development of Renaissance vernacular languages in Europe.
Proposals (no longer than 300 words), with a brief biographic note, can be sent to Fabio Ciambella ([email protected]) no later than 31/12/2022. Acceptance or rejection of proposals will be announced no later than 15/01/2023. Complete articles (6000-8000 words) are due no later than 30/04/2023. Publication date by 31/12/2023.

04/07/2022

The new issue of Status Quaestionis is out! It includes a monograph section titled "Narrative Dimensions and European Theatre, from the Early Twentieth Century to the Present" (edited by Andrea Peghinelli e Marta Marchetti), a miscellanea and a book review section. We hope you will like it!

Narrative Dimensions and European Theatre, from the Early Twentieth Century to the Present Authors Marta Marchetti https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2237-6634 Andrea Peghinelli https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4673-5884 DOI: https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/18063 Abstract This monographic issue promotes a di...

22/03/2022

Another exciting CfP for SQ:
The Imaginary Voyage. New, Other, Virtual Worlds, from Thule to the Cyberspace. Deadline for abstract submission: June 15 2022

The Imaginary Voyage. New, Other, Virtual Worlds, from Thule to the Cyberspace 2022-03-21 «Onore e gloria a questa moltitudine di viaggiatori e gubernetes dell’immaginazione, nocchieri e piloti sconosciuti, o conosciuti come profeti, filosofi, scrittori, poeti; quasi nessuno di loro ebbe a subire...