Research groups

Research group on Anglophone Studies

The group studies a number of topics related to English and its varieties and to American culture and literature. IPERSTORIA (WWW.IPERSTORIA.IT), officially acknowledged by ANVUR as a scientific journal, is the journal of the group.

Contact people: Roberta Facchinetti

Members
Research interests

Sara Corrizzato: Research Assistants
Valeria Franceschi: Associate Professor
Paola Vettorel: Assistant Professor

Roberta Facchinetti: Full Professor
Maria Ivana Lorenzetti: Associate Professor
Anna Zanfei: Associate Professor

Research interests
Topic	Research area
Political Discourse	Lingua e linguistica inglese English Discourse Analysis and Text Linguistics
Edgar Allan Poe	Lingue e letterature anglo-americane American language
English as a Lingua Franca	Lingua e linguistica inglese Contemporary English
English for Specific Purposes (ESP)	Lingua e linguistica inglese English Discourse Analysis and Text Linguistics
English Language, REGISTER VARIETIES AND VARIATION in ENGLISH, Multimodal discourse and texts analysis	Lingua e linguistica inglese English Discourse Analysis and Text Linguistics
English Language Teaching (ELT)	Lingua e linguistica inglese Contemporary English
Syntax-Semantics Interface	Lingua e linguistica inglese Grammar and Syntax – Grammatik und Syntax
Literature and Politics in African American Culture	Lingue e letterature anglo-americane American or Canadian literature in English - Miscellaneous writings
Language and Media between information and ideology	Lingua e linguistica inglese English language: cultural Studies and Mentalities
English Corpus Linguistics	Lingua e linguistica inglese English Corpus Linguistics
Metaphor and Cognitive Linguistics	Lingua e linguistica inglese English Linguistics Areas Metaphor
Multimodal Linguistics	Lingua e linguistica inglese English Discourse Analysis and Text Linguistics
Multimodal texts analysis/multimodal persuasion	Lingua e linguistica inglese English Discourse Analysis and Text Linguistics
Psychogenealogy and Nineteenth Century American Fiction.	Lingue e letterature anglo-americane American or Canadian literature in English - Fiction
American Slang	Lingue e letterature anglo-americane American language
History of the English language	Lingua e linguistica inglese English Language
Translation	Lingua e linguistica inglese Lexicology and Lexicography