ABSTRACT This article aims to analyse Italian universities’ official websites discursive practices to assess their involvement in the university third mission: the contribution by universities to the social and economic development of the environment in which they act. To achieve it, textual data were extracted from the official websites of the 91 Italian universities and, using linguistic resources specifically built for this purpose, these data were processed with the natural language processing environment NooJ. Lexical information was extracted and a semantic analysis was conducted. The main results of which suggest that the third mission topic does not emerge very prominently on universities’ official websites. Actually, it is mostly associated with an economic valorisation of research rather than to a social commitment. As a matter of fact, universities that pay attention to discursive practices design the interaction processes with communities, improving quality performances in the third mission.

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关于第三任务的话语实践。意大利大学官方网站的调查

摘要本文旨在分析意大利大学的官方网站话语实践，以评估其参与大学的第三个任务：大学对其所处环境的社会和经济发展的贡献。为此，从意大利91所大学的官方网站上提取了文本数据，并使用专门为此目的构建的语言资源，使用自然语言处理环境NooJ处理了这些数据。提取词法信息并进行语义分析。其主要结果表明，第三个任务主题并未在大学的官方网站上非常显眼地出现。实际上，它主要与研究的经济价值挂钩，而不是与社会承诺有关。事实上，