Laura Mori is Full Professor of Historical Linguistics and General Linguistics at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at UNINT where she is the scientific director of the Corpus Linguistics Centre and the Prorector for Teaching and Learning (2022-2024). After her PhD in Historical Linguistics and Italian Linguistic History at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ with a thesis in experimental phonetics (2006), she has got a permanent position (lecturer: 2008-2015; Associate Professor: 2015-2021; Full Professor: from 2021) at UNINT University (previously LUSPIO).
In the last 20 years she has taken part to research and teaching activities in several European Universities: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Laboratoire Langage et Parole (Aix-en-Provence) and Laboratoire Dynamique du Language (Lyon), University of Malta, University of Ghent, University of Màlaga, SOAS University di Londra. As for Italian research projects, she has been involved in three National research projects financed by MIUR (Cofin-PRIN 2003, PRIN 2008, PRIN 2012) in the field of historical sociolinguistics as member of the research unit of the University of Tuscia.
She has been the scientific responsibility of the research unit (Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma - UNINT) within the PRIN 2017 project "Italian language, global language market, Italian companies in the world: new linguistic, sociocultural, institutional, economic-productive dynamics" (2019-2023). In this project the relationship between economic networks and migrant groups of Italian origin is being explored in order to find out symbolic and cultural values associated with the Italian language and identity in some case representative case-study countries: Argentina, Australia, Malta, Tunisia.
Her research interests are mainly oriented toward cross-language phenomena and sociolinguistic dynamics taking place in multilingual contexts in different areas of the world in the present and in the past. So far she has tackled with the following topics: typological-linguistic and sociolinguistic analyses of Maltese, studies of variation as far as Maltese English and Haitian Creole are concerned, interlanguage phonology (segmental phonetic variation) and morphsyntax-prosody interface of marked structures in L2 Italian as well as migrants’ attitudes and sociolinguistic awareness concerning native languages/non native Italian.
From 2013 to 2020 she has been the scientific coordinator of the Eurolect Observatory Project (http://www.unint.eu/eurolect-observatory/overview ), thus in these last years she has focused on eurolects (mainly Italian Eurolect) by coprus analysing outcomes of intereference and convergence due to multilingual contact. This topic has been dealt with in papers devoted to the encoding of deontic modality, juridical performativity, relationship between syntactic complexity and accessibility of laws, translation-induced effects related to the EU context. At the same time, the “community of practice” framework has been applied to Modern Mediterranean unpublished manuscripts in order to interpret the pragmalinguistic strategies used in multilingual communication.
In the last years she has been involved in pragmatic analysis in relation to the expression of agentivity in interpreter-mediated communication in political-institutional contexts and in the analysis of the accessibility of legislative Italian texts in national, supranational, and non-European contexts.
More recently she has coordinated an interdisciplinary project on neuromarketing linguistic implications focusing on the relationship between linguistic features and pragmatic and textual patterns with neuro parameters, statements and consumer's behaviour (funded by FRSA 2021, UNINT). Actually she is coordinating together with Prof. Sandro Caruana the international project FoneMa aimed at the phonetic analysis of L2 Italian by Maltese speakers (funded by FRSA 2023, UNINT).
More information: https://my.unint.eu/web/l.mori