Contents
Francesca Bianchi, Silvia Bruti, Gloria Cappelli and Elena Manca, Introduction 5
Elena Manca and Cinzia Spinzi, A cross-cultural study of the popularization of environmental issues for a young audience in digital spaces 19
Silvia Bruti, Ecology for children: Examples from popularizing texts in English and Italian 47
Katia Peruzzo, Empowering children: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its English and Italian child-friendly versions 71
Gianmarco Vignozzi, Kids in the House: How the U.S. House of Representatives addresses youngsters 97
Silvia Cacchiani, What is Copyright? Communicating specialized knowledge on CBBC 125
Olga Denti and Giuliana Diani, “Hello, my name is Coronavirus”: Popularizing COVID-19 for children and teenagers 151
Jekaterina Nikitina, Popularizing the Covid-19 pandemic to young children online: A case study 181
Silvia Masi, Disseminating knowledge through TED Talks for children 211
Francesca Bianchi and Elena Manca, Rewriting novels for a young audience: A corpus-assisted comparison between two versions of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 239
Judith Turnbull, Popularizing diversity for children in videos on YouTube 259
Gloria Cappelli, Linguistics for children: The intermodal presentation of English grammar metalanguage in materials for young learners 287
Maria Elisa Fina, Popularizing art for children at the MoMA: A multimodal analysis of the audio-delivered pictorial descriptions 319
Annalisa Sezzi, An intergalactic journey to the popularization of modern art in museum-based websites for children 343