Corpus linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Intercultural Rhetoric
ESP (English for Specific Purposes)
SFL (Systemic Functional Linguistics)
Corpus linguistics, especially small corpora
Discourse Analysis, especially Corpus-Assisted Discourse
Studies
Intercultural rhetoric (English-Italian, with special attention
paid to American English)
English for Specific Purposes, especially the language of
philanthropic nonprofit organizations
Media discourse, especially newspaper discourse
Systemic Functional Linguistics, with special attention paid to
the integration between SFL and corpus-based methodologies for the
Transitivity analysis of newspaper discourse