Sociolinguistic features and pragmatic strategies of disinformation

Position: Post-doctoral research appointment Institute: Uni. Catania
Posted on: 08/07/2026 Deadline: 28/07/2026

Scientific-Disciplinary Group

10/LIFI-01 - Italian Linguistics And Philology

Description

Within the FIS3 project FANDEMIA, this research post studies the sociolinguistic features and pragmatic strategies of disinformation in the Italian press. Drawing on a corpus of newspaper articles on immigration (2014–2024), distinguished between real and fake news, it analyses register variation, style and rhetorical devices through Discursive News Values Analysis and Key Semantic Domain Analysis. The aim is to identify the linguistic markers specific to disinformation and compare them with the repertoires of contemporary Italian, contributing to a debunking tool that integrates a philological linguistic approach with NLP and artificial intelligence.

Compensation

28,456 Euro

Number of positions

1

Maximum duration

12.0

Funding body

UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA

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