Teaching and Research

February 2019-in progress

Research Fellow (Ricercatore TDA)

SSD: L-LIN/21 - Slavistica

University of Pavia, Department of Humanities

June 2015 – May 2018

Post-Doc researcher in Linguistics

University of Pavia, Department of Humanities

2018/2019

Lecturer for the courses “Russian Language and Translation II” (BA) and “Russian Language and Translation II” (MA)

University for Foreigners of Siena

2017/2018, 2016/2017, 2014/2015

Lecturer for the course “Russian Language I”

University of Pavia, Department of Humanities

2014/2015; 2013/2014

Lecturer for the course “Istituzioni, Storia e Cultura della Lingua Russa”

University of Insubria, Como

April - May 2014

Lecturer at the Seminar of Semantics and Pragmatics (Prof. Silvia Luraghi)

University of Pavia

2013/2014, 2012/2013, 2011/2012, 2010/2011, 2008/2009, 2007/2008

Teaching assistant of Russian Language, Coordinator: Prof. Maria Cristina Bragone

University of Pavia, Section of Slavistics.

2010/2011

Teaching assistant of Historical Linguistics, Coordinator: Prof. Silvia Luraghi

University of Pavia, Section of Linguistics

Education

2013 January

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Pavia

“Fear in Russian. A corpus-based approach to the conceptualization of emotions”

Supervisor: Prof. Silvia Luraghi; 

Scientific Committee: Prof. Pierluigi Cuzzolin, Prof. Michele Prandi

2010 April

Master Degree in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Pavia

“The communication of terrorism in Russian media: the attack at the Beslan school as reported in the Novaja Gazeta and in the Rossijskaja Gazeta”. Supervisor: Prof. Silvia Luraghi; Second supervisor: Prof. Maria Cristina Bragone

2006 December

Bachelor Degree in Modern Languages and Culture, University of Pavia

“Uso del pronome personale di prima persona nel discorso politico: un’analisi contrastiva di italiano e russo” (Use of the first-person pronoun in political discourse: a contrastive analysis of Italian and Russian). Supervisor: Prof. Silvia Luraghi; Second supervisor: Prof. Maria Cristina Bragone

Experiences abroad

May - June 2016: Period of study and research at the Higher School of Economics, School of Linguistics - Moscow, Russia

September 2014 – February 2015: Period of study and research (Post-Doc) at the Yerevan State Linguistic University after Brusov – Yerevan, Armenia – Erasmus Mundus Ianus II Program

March 2013 – April 2013: Period of study and research at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) – Moscow, Russia

February 2012 – June 2012: Period of study and research at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) – Moscow, Russia

August 2008 –January 2009: Period of study at the San Francisco State University – San Francisco, CA, USA – University of Pavia Scholarship

February 2007 – June 2007: Period of study at the Centre of Russian Language and Culture (Department of Saint-Petersburg State University) – Saint-Petersburg, Russia

February 2006 – June 2006: Period of study at the University of Warsaw – Warsaw, Poland – Erasmus Exchange Program

Articles:

Pinelli, E. (2014), “La concettualizzazione della paura in russo. Metafore concettuali della causalità”, in Bonola Anna, Cotta Ramusino Paola, Goletiani Liana (eds.), Studi italiani di linguistica slava. Strutture, uso e acquisizione, Collana Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici, 24, Firenze, Firenze University Press, pp. 333-346.

Pinelli, E. (2014), “L’uso dei pronomi nel discorso politico russo: Putin e Medvedev a confronto” in Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata, anno XLIII, n° 3/2014, pp. 423-448.

Pinelli, E. (2015), “A corpus-based analysis of near-synonyms of fear in Russian” in Mambrini Francesco, Passarotti Marco, Sporleder Caroline (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Corpus-Based Research in the Humanities (CRH), pp. 87-96.

Pinelli, E. (2016), “The role of metaphor and metonymy in framing terrorism. The case of the Beslan school siege in the Russian media” in Metaphor and the Social World, 6:1, pp. 134-155.

Pinelli, E. and Sarkisjan, R.R (2016), “Metodika raboty nad glagolami dvi?enija russkogo jazyka v ital’janskoj auditorii”, in Problemy sovremennoj rusistiki, n. 1, Armjanskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet imeni Cha?atura Abovjana, pp. 82-88.

Naccarato C. and Pinelli E. (2017), “Un approccio cognitivo alla formazione delle parole: il caso dei composti con suffissi d’agente in russo”, in Di Filippo Marina and Esvan François (eds.), Studi di Linguistica Slava, Napoli, Il Torcoliere, pp. 211-228.

Pinelli E. (2018), “Predstavlenie prošlogo i buduš?ego v novogodnich obraš?enijach: na materiale pozdravlenij V. V. Putina”, Rhema. Rema, n° 2, pp. 62-82.

Pinelli E. and Sarkisjan R. (2018), “K voprosu o motivirovannosti grammati?eskoj kategorii roda v ital’janskom jazyke v sopostavlenii s russkim”, in Bulletin of Yerevan Brusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences. Linguistics and Philology, n° 1(44), pp. 552-560

Pinelli E. (2019), “La preposizione russa za e i predicati emozionali”, in Iliyana Krapova, Svetlana Nistratova, Luisa Ruvoletto (eds.), Studi di linguistica slava. Nuove prospettive e metodologie di ricerca, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, pp. 453-469.

Pinelli E. (2019), “Sankcii protiv Rossii: predstavlenie pervoj fazy sankcionnogo processa v rossijskich SMI”, Rhema. Rema, n° 4, pp. 70-85.

Luraghi S., Naccarato C., Pinelli E. (2020), “The u+gen construction in Modern Standard Russian”, Cognitive Linguistics, 31(1), pp. 149-183.

Pinelli E. and  Naccarato C. (2020), “A contrastive analysis of Italian and Russian idioms of death: The journey metaphor”, in Cotta Ramusino Paola e Mollica Fabio (eds.), Contrastive Phraseology: Languages and Cultures in comparison. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 259-270.

Monographic volumes:

Pinelli, E. (2015), A Corpus-Based Approach to the Conceptualization of Emotions, Roma: Aracne Editrice.

Edited volumes:

Baicchi, A. and Pinelli E. (Eds.)(2017), Cognitive Modelling in Language and Discourse across Cultures. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.