Michele Mannoni

Curriculum

•   Michele Mannoni - CV (ENG)   (pdf, en, 462 KB, 24/09/22)
•   Michele Mannoni - CV (ITA)   (pdf, it, 497 KB, 28/09/22)

I’m a linguist of Mandarin Chinese. I investigate what is commonly known as Mandarin (i.e., the contemporary official language of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Singapore) from different perspectives, mostly in the area of discourse analysis and conceptual metaphor theory. I’m particularly interested in the way meaning is created and conveyed, both intralingually and across different languages. My focus is on Chinese legal language, i.e., the language of laws, regulations, and private legal documents. In my most recent publications I explored the metaphors used in Chinese and English for key legal concepts, such as ‘legal rights’ (權利) and ‘injustice’ (冤). Presently I’m working on refining a procedure of identifying linguistic metaphors in Chinese, and I’m moving to the analysis of the metaphorical language of emotional discourse. I’ve carried out research in various internationally-established institutions, including the Academia Sinica of Taipei, Taiwan (中央研究院). My memberships include the European China Law Studies Association (ECLS, 欧洲中国法研究协会) and the Association for Researching & Applying Metaphor (RaAM).

Academic achievements

• 2018-2024: National Habilitation to practice as an Associate Professor of Chinese Studies
• 2021-2024: Tenure-track Research Assistant in Chinese legal language and corpus linguistics at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Verona
• 2019-2021: Research Assistant in Chinese legal language and digital humanities (Project of Excellence) at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Verona
• 2019: Visiting Scholar at the Institutum Iurisprudentiae of Academia Sinica of Taipei, Taiwan
• 2018: Visiting Scholar at the Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica of Taipei, Taiwan
• 2015-2018: Research Assistant in Chinese Legal Language at the University of Perugia under the co-supervision of Prof. Deborah Cao (Griffith University, Australia)
• 2015: Ph.D. in Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (major in: Chinese)
• 2011: M.A. in Interpreting and Translation for Special Purposes, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (major in: Chinese, English)
• 2008: B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Firenze (major in: Chinese, English, Japanese)

Languages

• Italian: native speaker
• Mandarin Chinese (简体字和正體字): can read, write, speak, collect data and peer review
• English: can read, write, speak, collect data and peer review
• Portuguese: can read, write, speak, collect data and peer review
• Japanese: can understand simple written texts
• Spanish: can understand written texts in my research area
• French: can understand written texts in my research area

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