Communicating Food to Children

This book offers a systematic account of communication on food aimed at children, investigating verbal and visual strategies used in food media in English from synchronic and diachronic perspectives. This volume will appeal to scholars in discourse analysis, multimodality, corpus linguistics, and childhood studies.

Daniela Cesiri holds a PhD in English Language and Linguistics. She is currently an associate professor in English language, linguistics, and translation in the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy). Her main research interests are applied linguistics, pragmatics, the use of corpora for discourse analysis, computer-mediated communication, knowledge dissemination, metaphors in specialised discourse, and the study of ESP/EAP in different settings, domains, and genres. She has published numerous articles for national and international publishers on these topics. She also published a monograph in 2012 entitled Nineteenth-Century Irish English: A Corpus-Based Linguistic and Discursive Analysis. A second monograph entitled The Discourse of Food Blogs: Multidisciplinary Perspectives was published in 2020 by Routledge, while in 2015, the textbook Variation in English across Time, Space and Discourse: An Introductory Textbook was published.