Giuseppe Balirano

Antonio Fruttaldo received a PhD in English for Special Purposes (ESP) from the University of Naples Federico II. His research interests lie in the intersections between different methodological approaches, such as Corpus Linguistics, (Critical) Discourse Analysis, and Genre Analysis, among others. His research has mainly focused on media discourse – in particular, on digital media and news discourse. He is currently a Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at
the University of Naples Federico II and the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. He has published extensively in the field of Media Studies, and his most recent contributions include: “News Discourse and Digital Currents: A Corpus-Based Genre Analysis of News Tickers”; “The Chocolate Battle: Media Representation of Product Quality in the British Press”; and “‘Spilling the Tea’ in Academia: A Queer Representation of the Academic Community through Twitter”.