Biosketch

Annamaria Caimi studied Modern Languages and Literature (Major: English and French; Minor: German) at Milan Catholic University, where she graduated with distinction in 1977 and was awarded the Gemelli Prize. She taught English for Specific Purposes in the Faculties of Economics, Law and Political Science and English Applied Linguistics in the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Milan Catholic University. Since March 2000 she has been coordinating the courses of English at the Faculty of Political Science – Pavia University. She teaches English through subjects that are in keeping with the curricula of the degree courses of the Faculty, according to the guidelines of Content Based Instruction.

She has done research in ESP teaching methodology and published ESP teaching materials. She has expanded her research interests to word formation, syntax, discourse analysis and pragmatics. Currently her publications concern  a variety of research fields such as  the role of screen translation (subtitling) in language learning and the pragmatic function of conditional subordinators in a specialized corpus of the English/Italian versions of the Treaties of the European Union.

Education

1979  Certificate of Law and Economics of the European Community. Milan International Centre of European Community Studies and Documentation.

1977 Degree cum laude, Foreign Languages and Literature, Milan Catholic University, Italy, (Major: English Language and Literature, French Language and Literature; minor: German Language and Literature). Winner of the Gemelli Prize, awarded every year to the best graduate of each Faculty of Milan Catholic University.

1967 University of Cambridge – Local Examinations Syndicate – Certificate of Proficiency in

English.

1966 University of Grenoble – Certificat d’études pratiques de Langue Française.

Teaching Positions

2000-present Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics: Faculty of Political Science, Pavia University.

1992-2000 Research fellow in Foreign Language Teaching Methodology and English Linguistics: Faculty of Economics and Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, Milan Catholic University.

1978-1992 Teacher of English for Specific Purposes and English course coordinator: Faculties of Economics, Political Science and Law, Milan Catholic University. 

Research Interests

ESP teaching methodology and Discourse Analysis

Word Formation

Syntax

Pragmatics

Corpus Linguistics

Screen Translation (Subtitling)

Publications

Books

2000 Cami, Annamaria, Porcelli, Gianfranco, Temple Bar - The English of Management, Politics, Law and Economics, British and American Readings, Vita e Pensiero, Milano.

Edited volumes

2002 Caimi, Annamaria (a cura di), Cinema: Paradiso delle Lingue. I sottotitoli nell’apprendimento linguistico, Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (RILA), 1-2 2002, Bulzoni Editore, Roma, 430 pages.

Articles

2011 Caimi, Annamaria,"Cognitive insights into the role of subtitling
          in L2 learning", in Adriana Serban, Anna Matamala & Jean-Marc
          Lavaur (eds), Audiovisual Translation in Close up - Practical
          and Theoretical Approaches, Bern, Peter Lang, 113-129.

2010 Caimi Annamaria, Mariotti Cristina, “A Corpus-based Analysis of Noun Phrase Complexity in Spoken Economic Discourse” in Patricia Kennan and Paola Tornaghi (a cura di), Specialised Usages of English in Economic and Business Contexts, Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (RILA) Monographic Issue, Anno XLII- n.3 2010, Roma, Bulzoni, 55-66. ISSN 0033-9725

2009 Caimi, Annamaria, “Subtitling: Language Learners’ Needs vs. Audiovisual Market Needs", in Jorge Diaz Cintas and Gunilla Anderman (eds) Audiovisual Translation: Language Transfer on Screen. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 240-251.

2007 Caimi, Annamaria, “Pedagogical Insights for an Experimental English Language Learning Course based on Subtitling ”, in Anthony Baldry, Maria Pavesi, Carol Taylor Torsello, Christopher Taylor (eds.) From Didactas to Ecolingua. An Ongoing Research Project on Translationand Corpus Linguistics, Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 61-68.

2007 Caimi, Annamaria, “Acquisizione di una Lingua Straniera attraverso Contenuti   Curricolari: Riflessioni sull’Esperienza Didattica nel Campo delle Scienze Sociali” in Giuliana Garzone e Rita Salvi (a cura di), Linguistica, Linguaggi Specialistici, Didattica delle Lingue  – Studi in Onore di Leo Schena, Roma, CISU, 285-293.

2006  Caimi, Annamaria, Audiovisual Translation and Language Learning: The Promotion of Intralingual Subtitles,  JosTrans (http://www.jostrans.org), Proceedings of Media for all – International Conference on Audiovisual Translation, vol. 06, Barcelona, 6th- 8th June 2005.

2005 Caimi, Annamaria, “Subtitling in a Cognitive Perspective to Encourage Second Language Learning”, in John D. Sanderson (ed.) Research on Translation for Subtitling in Spain and Italy, Alicante,  Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante, 65-77.

2005 Caimi, Annamaria, “Conditional Conjunctions in the Treaties of the European Union: A Cognitive Perspective”, in A. Baicchi, C. Broccias, A. Sansò (eds),  Modelling thought and constructing meaning: cognitive models in interaction, proceedings of  the International Conference in Cognitive Linguistics, Pavia 20th-21st November 2003, Milano, Franco Angeli, 147-155.

2004 Caimi, Annamaria, , “The pragmatic function of conditional subordinators in the treaties of the European Union: examples from an English/Italian specialized corpus based study”,  in A. Partington, J. Morley, L. Haarman, (eds), Corpora and Discourse, Linguistic Insights, volume 9, Bern, Peter Lang, 303-316.

2004 Caimi, Annamaria, “Le occorrenze dei connettivi condizionali semplici e complessi nella versione italiana e nella versione inglese dei trattati dell’Unione Europea: un esempio applicativo”, in Carol Taylor Torsello, Maria Grazia Busà, Sara Gesuato (a cura di),  Lingua inglese e mediazione interlinguistica: ricerca e didattica con supporto telematico Padova, Unipress, 199-217.

2002 Caimi Annamaria, Perego Elisa, “La sottotitolazione: lo stato dell’arte”, in Annamaria Caimi (a cura di ), Cinema: Paradiso delle lingue. I sottotitoli nell’apprendimento linguistico, Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (RILA), 1-2, Bulzoni, Roma, 19-51.

2002 Caimi Valentini, Annamaria, Topicalizzazione e Focalizzazione,
         in G. Porcelli ( a cura di), Due codici a confronto: per
         un’analisi contrastiva dei sistemi linguistici inglese e
         italiano, Editrice La Scuola, Brescia, 73-88.

2000 Caimi Valentini, Annamaria, The Use of Graphs in Peirce and Jevons, in  Paul Perron, Leonard G. Sbrocchi, Paul Colilli, Marcel Danesi (eds.),  Semiotics as a Bridge between the Sciences and the Humanities, Legas Press, Ottawa, 208-219.

2000 Caimi Valentini, Annamaria, Compounding in English and Italian. A contrastive relationship between concept formation and word-formation, in Gabriele Azzaro e Margherita Ulrych (a cura di)  Anglistica e...: percorsi comparatistici nelle lingue, culture e letterature di origine europea. Vol 2: Transiti linguistici e culturali, EUT, Trieste, 99-112

1997 Caimi, Annamaria, Frasi Scisse e pseudoscisse, in G. Porcelli, A Caimi, C. Uccellino, Appunti per il corso di Lingua Inglese, I.S.U. Università Cattolica, Milano, 22-29.

1994 Caimi Valentini, Annamaria, Semantic and Pragmatic Parameters to interpret Exocentric Compounds, “ L’Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria”, 1, Anno II, Vita e Pensiero, Milano,  147-167.

1994 Caimi Valentini, Annamaria, Bankruptcy: from legislation to word-formation - a binary historical approach, in Rolando Bacchielli, (ed.), Historical English Word-formation, Papers read at the Sixth National Conference of the History of English, University of Urbino, 24th and 25th September 1993, Quattroventi, Urbino, 277-284.

1994  Caimi Valentini, Annamaria,  Grammatica inglese e verifica dell’apprendimento, in G. Porcelli (a cura di), La grammatica inglese e il suo insegnamento, Editrice La Scuola, Brescia, 102-126.

1991  Caimi, Annamaria,  Problemi di analisi testuale - I concetti di tema/rema per individuare la struttura dell’informazione nell’enunciato, “Scuola e Lingue Moderne”, 3 (marzo 1991),  82-87.

1990 Caimi Valentini, Annamaria,  ESP-LSP: un modello teorico-applicativo per una didattica della microlingua, in AA. VV., Le Lingue di Specializzazione e il loro insegnamento - problemi teorici e orientamenti didattici, Vita e Pensiero, Milano,  139-203.

1988 Caimi Valentini, Annamaria, L’Inglese dell’Amministrazione, in AA. VV.,Il Linguaggio delle Scienze e il suo insegnamento, Atti del congresso su “Le lingue di specializzazione e il loro insegnamento nella scuola secondaria e nell’università”, Brescia, 2-4 aprile 1987, La Scuola, Brescia,  187-207.