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Sabrina Fusari

Associate Professor

Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Academic discipline: L-LIN/12 Language and Translation - English

Research

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