Research interests
- English Word-formation (synthetic/analogical compounds, blends, combining forms, splinters, abbreviations, clippings, acronyms, initialisms, reduplicatives, diminutives, analogy)
- Morphology (grammatical, extra-grammatical, transitional, paradigmatic)
- Slang (morphology, semantics, sociology, translation)
- Neology (new words, neologisms, neosemanticisms, occasionalisms)
- Lexicology (slang lexis, specialised vocabulary)
- Specialised discourse (economics/business, scientific/medical, legal, tourism)
- Popularisation discourse and genres (TED Talks, Google Talks, Facebook)
- Figurative language (metaphor, metonymy, understatement, overstatement)
Research projects
2021 – 2024 PRIN 2020 National Project (no. 2020NNJTW3) “The informalisation of English language learning through the media: Language input, learning outcomes and sociolinguistic attitudes from an Italian perspective”, University of Pavia
2017 – 2018 Local Project PRA_2017_53 “Efficienza pragmatica e comprensione di testi in L1 e L2 in giovani adulti normolettori e dislessici”, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa
2016 – 2019 PRIN 2015 National Project (no. 2015TJ8ZAS) “Knowledge Dissemination across media in English: Continuity and change in discourse strategies, ideologies, and epistemologies”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
2014 Visiting Scholar, Research Project on Analogy in English Neologisms. Austrian Academy of Sciences (Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology, ICLTT), University of Vienna, Austria
2012 – 2014 International Project MetBib (Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy), http://www.benjamins.com/online/met/, John Benjamins
2012 Research Project on Teaching EFL, Department of English, University of Pisa
2011 Research Project on Teaching English Morphology to Italian university students, Language University Centre, Pisa
2006 PRIN Project “Lexicom-theta. La complessità lessicale: Definizione teorica e applicazioni metodologiche”, Department of English, University of Pisa