In the last few decades a variety of bioethically-relevant issues have been at the centre of public debate, attracting ample coverage from the media in a context where unprecedentedly fast and pervasive scientific and technological progress has led to new questions on the actual application of advances to real life cases, e.g. in biotechnologies, genetics, medicine, with an impact on human identities, relations and practices, and therefore effect on human rights and fundamental freedoms. This special issue of Anglistica AION on Representing, Disseminating, and Debating Controversial Bioethical Issues in Popularised Discourse focuses on the discursive representation of such issues in popularising texts. It owes its core idea to the main theme of investigation of the Milan research unit – the representation of bioethical issues – co-ordinated by Giuliana Garzone as part of a National Research Programme on knowledge dissemination. In particular, attention is centred on the linguistic and discursive strategies that are employed in ‘translating’ and framing specialised bioethical notions, terms and debates within journalistic, online, promotional, corporate and legal texts, and media coverage.

Popularised Discourse and/on Bioethics: An Introduction

doerr, roxanne barbara
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2019-01-01

Abstract

In the last few decades a variety of bioethically-relevant issues have been at the centre of public debate, attracting ample coverage from the media in a context where unprecedentedly fast and pervasive scientific and technological progress has led to new questions on the actual application of advances to real life cases, e.g. in biotechnologies, genetics, medicine, with an impact on human identities, relations and practices, and therefore effect on human rights and fundamental freedoms. This special issue of Anglistica AION on Representing, Disseminating, and Debating Controversial Bioethical Issues in Popularised Discourse focuses on the discursive representation of such issues in popularising texts. It owes its core idea to the main theme of investigation of the Milan research unit – the representation of bioethical issues – co-ordinated by Giuliana Garzone as part of a National Research Programme on knowledge dissemination. In particular, attention is centred on the linguistic and discursive strategies that are employed in ‘translating’ and framing specialised bioethical notions, terms and debates within journalistic, online, promotional, corporate and legal texts, and media coverage.
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