New Styles, New Meanings, New Identities: Editors’ Introduction

It is not surprising that style should be one of the themes to be investigated as part of the activities of the five-year Departmental Project Diversity & Inclusion(2018-2023). The interdisciplinarity that has always characterised critical approaches to style as well as style’s pivotal role in all forms of discourse made it a strategic theme to address within the above-mentioned project. Style is a key issue to investigate in order to build an open and inclusive dialogue among the disciplines hosted by our Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures with a view to forging a multidirectional research trajectory focused on multilingual discursive forms. The main section of this issue contains critical pieces that provide a reflection on stylistic variations in connection with some of the most pressing challenges of our times.