Research: A cross-cultural study of refusals to invitations and last-minute cancellations in Italian, European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cross-cultural Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Linguistic Politeness, Language Acquisition, Portuguese Linguistics.
EDUCATION
- 2023 – ongoing
PhD in Linguistics (curriculum General and Applied Linguistics), University of Rome “La Sapienza” – Roma Tre University – University of São Paulo (USP).
My research project investigates refusals to invitations and last-minute cancellations in Italian, European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese. The aim is to collect and compare three different corpora in order to analyse contrastively the realization and perception of these speech acts by native speakers in relation to politeness strategies.
- March 22nd 2023
Master’s degree in Modern Languages for International Communication (LM-38), Roma Tre University.
Thesis in Applied Linguistics: “Apprendimento di costruzioni a verbo supporto dell’italiano da parte di studenti lusofoni: un confronto tra contesto di immersione e di lingua straniera” (supervisor: Prof. Elena Nuzzo; co-supervisor: Prof. Gian Luigi De Rosa; grade 110L/110).
- March 16th 2020
Bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages and Cultural Mediation (L-12, curriculum Linguistics and European Languages), Roma Tre University.
Thesis in Portuguese: “Espressioni idiomatiche a confronto: Portoghese – Italiano” (supervisor: Prof. Salvador Pippa; grade 109/110).
TALKS IN CONFERENCES
- February 24th 2023
"Apprendimento di costruzioni a verbo supporto dell’italiano da parte di studenti lusofoni: un confronto tra contesto di immersione e di lingua straniera" (CONDOR 2023 “Accidents, Hitches, and Glitches in Linguistic Research", University of Rome La Sapienza – Roma Tre University);
- October 23rd 2024
“Um estudo exploratório em Pragmática cross-cultural sobre o ato de fala de desmarcar compromissos em italiano, português europeu e português brasileiro” (40th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Linguistics, University of Azores, Ponta Delgada)
EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
- A.Y. 2024-2025
Mobility period abroad at University of São Paulo (USP), Joint PhD theses (Cotutelle).
- A.Y. 2021-2022, 2022-2023
Scholarship, University of Roma Tre, Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
Tutor in Portuguese Language and Linguistics for the undergraduate students of Portuguese Studies.
- A.Y. 2021-2022
International Mobility, (Master's degree thesis), University of Lisbon. Exchange Programme for thesis research in Applied Linguistics at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (external supervisor: prof. Debora Ricci).
- A.Y. 2020-2021
Erasmus+ Programme at University of Minho (Braga, Portugal).
- A.Y. 2019-2020
Erasmus+ Traineeship at Arquivo dos Diários (Lisbon). Post-graduate internship, during this exchange period I carried out the following activities: cataloguing of documents, transcription and digitization of manuscripts (diaries, postcards, notes), organization of cultural events.
- A.Y. 2018-2019
Erasmus+ Programme at University of Coimbra. During this period abroad I had the opportunity to carry out a curricular internship as tutor of Italian Language and Culture for the undergraduate students of Italian Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra.
LANGUAGES
Italian: mother tongue
Portuguese: C1 (DAPLE – 16/11/2023)
English: C1 (IELTS – 27/05/2023)
French: B1 (DELF – 05/2014)
Spanish: B1 (DELE – 05/2014)