The project aims to explore the accessibility and inclusiveness of Mandarin Chinese texts related to institutions and health, including both physical and emotional health. The project focuses on inclusive language for the Taiwanese LGBTQIA+ community and on the communicative differences between institutions and private individuals, as well as the emotional well-being of pet owners who have lost their pets.
The project involves the creation of at least two corpora of texts, which will be analyzed using corpus-based approaches, discourse analysis, cognitive linguistic approaches such as Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and quantitative analyses. Finally, guidelines/manuals for language will be prepared in light of the analyses conducted, to ensure they are easily accessible to researchers and/or the non-specialist public.
Group leader: Michele Mannoni
Internal members:
- Marco Casentini (postdoctoral researcher)