Author: martina

The main objective of the project is to identify strategies that can facilitate access to audiovisual content for deaf and blind people. To this end, a series of questionnaires are planned to clarify the needs, especially in the audiovisual field, that groups of people with hearing and visual disabilities may have in various social contexts: universities, cinemas, theaters, musicals, operas, etc.

Group leader: Rosa María Rodríguez Abella

External members:

• Luisa Chierichetti (University of Bergamo)
• Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo (Complutense University of Madrid)
• Maria Cristina Secci (University of Cagliari)

The project aims, first of all, to create a corpus of metalinguistic works published between the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on bilingual dictionaries, manuals, and educational guides for teaching Spanish, especially as a foreign or second language. Materials aimed at marginalized or excluded groups, such as Indigenous American communities, Italian migrants, and deaf people, will be selected.
Secondly, the project includes conducting a qualitative study on the collected educational materials to identify the metalinguistic notions and strategies employed, as well as the implicit glottodidactic conceptions in the texts. The analysis of metalinguistic notions will involve an in-depth study of the terminology used, the grammatical approach adopted, and the authors’ conceptions regarding the language and its contexts of use.

Group leader: Francesca Dalle Pezze

Internal members:

• Franklin Yessid Arias Bedoya (postdoctoral researcher)
• Matteo De Beni
• Renzo Miotti
• Elisa Sartor

External members:

• Dunia Hourani Martín (University of Málaga)

The project aims to create a corpus of Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) textbooks to enable the identification and extraction of metalinguistic notions. These definitions will be used to develop guidelines for teaching metalinguistic concepts, which will also meet the needs of learners who speak Russian as a heritage language.

Referente: Giorgia Pomarolli

Membri interni:

•  Daniele Artoni
• Tania Triberio (postdoctoral researcher)

Membri esterni:

• Diana Lyadskaya (Università di Trento)
• Linda Torresin (Università di Padova)

The project aims to explore the linguistic strategies and methods used to communicate social, educational, and training topics related to sport and wellbeing in English. It involves creating a corpus of texts, including both written and oral educational material on sports and wellbeing, which will be analyzed using corpus linguistics tools and methodologies such as discourse analysis, conceptual metaphor theory, and framework analysis.
As part of the analysis, guidelines for best practices will be developed to ensure that specialist ideas and concepts are communicated in an accessible way to all, taking into account different types of audiences.

Group leader: Roberta Facchinetti

Internal members:

• Claudio Bendazzoli
• Sara Corrizzato
• Carlotta Fiammenghi
• Valeria Franceschi
• Sharon Hartle
• Maria Ivana Lorenzetti
• Gloria Mambelli (Postdoctoral researcher)
• Anna Zanfei

External members:

• Yang Mei Mei (Ningbo University, China)

The project aims to research the most commonly used metalinguistic notions in the French language, especially at the lessical level.

The project involves the creation of a corpus of textbooks, grammars, essays, and lexicographical material, the extraction of metalinguistic notions, and the identification of a possible progression applicable in educational contexts.

This progression will be tested among different groups of learners:
a) adult learners who are Italian speakers with work-related needs in business settings;
b) adult learners with a first language (L1) other than Italian, who are partially Italian-speaking;
c) adult learners who are non-Italian speakers;
d) adult learners specializing in the communication sector;
e) learners with special educational needs (SEN).

Group leader: Maria Francesca Bonadonna

Internal members:

• Nicoletta Armentano
• Francesco Faresin (PhD student)
• Paolo Frassi
• Giovanni Luca Tallarico

External member:

• Silvia Ferrari

The project aims to explore the accessibility and inclusiveness of Mandarin Chinese texts related to institutions and health, including both physical and emotional health. The project focuses on inclusive language for the Taiwanese LGBTQIA+ community and on the communicative differences between institutions and private individuals, as well as the emotional well-being of pet owners who have lost their pets.

The project involves the creation of at least two corpora of texts, which will be analyzed using corpus-based approaches, discourse analysis, cognitive linguistic approaches such as Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and quantitative analyses. Finally, guidelines/manuals for language will be prepared in light of the analyses conducted, to ensure they are easily accessible to researchers and/or the non-specialist public.

Group leader: Michele Mannoni

Internal members:

• Marco Casentini (postdoctoral researcher)