Douglas Mark PontonDouglas Mark Ponton is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania. His research interests include political discourse analysis, ecolinguistics, interactive socioliguistics, applied linguistics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics and critical discourse studies. His main publications are For Arguments' Sake: Speaker Evaluation in Modern Political Discourse and Meaning Politics: a Manual of Political Discourse Analysis. As well as politics, his research deals with a variety of social topics, including tourism (he has published on the Montalbano effect and cruise tourism), the discourse of mediation; ecology, local dialect and folk traditions, including proverbs and Blues music. He published a paper on the figure of the bandit in popular song, exploring the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie. Douglas Ponton is also a keen amateur musician. Read More Read Less