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Raffaele Zago (Ph.D. Student)
General Info
Address: University of Pavia, Department of Humanities, Section of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Strada Nuova 65, 27100, Pavia, Italy.
E-mail: raffaele.zago01@ateneopv.it
Education
November 2011 – present
Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Pavia. Thesis: Informality and Informalisation in English: An Analysis of a Corpus of Films and their Remakes. Keywords: informality, informalisation, register, style, sociolinguistics, film dialogue.
March 2013 – May 2013
Visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Sydney (Australia), Department of Linguistics.
September 2012
International Summer School on Quantitative Methods and Corpora, University of Pavia.
July 2011
MA cum laude in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Pavia. Thesis: “That’s none of your business, Sy”: The Pragmatics of Vocatives in Audiovisual Dialogue.
July 2008
BA cum laude in Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Catania. Thesis: Code-switching e code ambiguation nel J-Pop (Japanese Popular Music).
Research Grants
November 2011 – present
Ph.D. scholarship in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Pavia.
Teaching Experience
October 2012 - present
Teaching Assistant for the ‘English Language 2’ course, University of Pavia, Department of Humanities, Section of Modern Languages and Cultures.
December 2011 – September 2012
Teaching Assistant for the ‘English Language 2’ course, University of Pavia, Department of Humanities, Section of Modern Languages and Cultures.
January 2011 – July 2011
Teaching Assistant for the ‘English Language’ and ‘Italian Language’ courses within the Foundation Year Study Programme, University of Pavia.
Conference Presentations & Talks
December 2012
Analysing Discourse: Core Concepts and Corpora, seminar given at the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Catania (Ragusa).
September 2012
“That’s none of your business, Sy”: The Pragmatics of Vocatives in Audiovisual Dialogue, paper presented at the International Conference on The Languages of Films: Dubbing, Acquisition and Methodology, University of Pavia.
September 2012
Thoughts on Informality and Informalisation, poster presented at the 11th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.
September 2012
“That’s none of your business, Sy”: The Pragmatics of Vocatives in Audiovisual Dialogue, paper presented at the 11th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), seminar 47 on Linguistic Interaction and Participation in Media Discourses, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.
July 2011
The Pragmatic Functions of Vocatives in a Corpus of British and American Films, poster presented at the 12th International Pragmatics Conference, Manchester.
Research Projects
September 2010 – December 2010
Film transcriber for the Pavia Corpus of Film Dialogue as part of English and Italian Audiovisual Language: Translation and Language Learning, international excellence project coordinated by Professor Maria Pavesi and funded by the Alma Mater Ticinensis Foundation.
Università degli Studi di Pavia
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Segreteria didattica: Corso Strada Nuova, 65 - 27100 Pavia
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