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Erica Pinelli (Ph.D. Student)

Contact Info

Address: Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Strada Nuova 65, 27100 Pavia, Italy.

E-mail: ericapinelli@alice.it

Curriculum

Education

November 2010 – present

Ph. D. student at the University of Pavia

Supervising Committee

Prof. Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia)

Prof. Pierluigi Cuzzolin (University of Bergamo)

Prof. Michele Prandi (University of Genoa)

April 2010

University of Pavia, Italy. MA cum laude in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Thesis in Linguistics :

‘The communication of terrorism in russian media: the attack at the Beslan school as reported in the Novaja Gazeta and in the Rossijskaja Gazeta’. Main supervisor: Prof. Silvia Luraghi. Secondary supervisor: Prof. Maria Cristina Bragone.

December 2006

University of Pavia, Italy. BA in Modern Languages and Cultures. Thesis in Russian Language and Linguistics: ‘Uso del pronome personale di prima persona nel discorso politico: un’analisi contrastiva di italiano e russo’. Main supervisor: Prof. Silvia Luraghi. Secondary supervisor: Prof. Maria Cristina Bragone.

Grants and experiences abroad

March 2013-April 2013

Research period at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) in Moscow

February 2012- June 2012

Research period at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) in Moscow, Russia.

October 2010 - present

Ph. D. scholarship in Linguistics at the University of Pavia, Italy.

August 2008 – January 2009

Scholarship funded by the University of Pavia for a study period at the San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA.

March 2007 – July 2007

Study period as a student of Russian Language at the Center of Russian Language and Culture of the University of Saint-Petersburg.

February 2006 – June 2006

Erasmus program (scholarship) at the University of Warsaw, Poland - Warszawski Uniwersytet.

Teaching experience

2012-2013

Teaching Assistant for 'Russian Language I and II' (Prof. Maria Cristina Bragone), University of Pavia, Italy.

2011-2012

Teaching Assistant for 'Russian Language I and II' (Prof. Maria Cristina Bragone), University of Pavia, Italy.

2010-2011

Teaching Assistant for 'Russian Language I and II' (Prof. Maria Cristina Bragone), University of Pavia, Italy.

2008-2009
Teaching Assistant for 'Russian Language I and II' (Prof. Maria Cristina Bragone), University of Pavia, Italy.

2007-2008
Teaching Assistant for 'Russian Language I and II' (Prof. Maria Cristina Bragone), University of Pavia, Italy.

Participation at Conferences and Courses

2-4 May 2013

Researching Metaphor and Metonymy – Metaphor, Metonymy and Emotions (RaAM)

University of Poznań - Poland

Poster Presentation – “The conceptualization of fear in Russian: a corpus-based approach to causality”

12-13 October 2012

IV Incontro di Linguistica Slava

Università Statale di Milano/Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Oral presentation – “Metafore della paura in russo: un’analisi corpus-based”

10/21 September 2012

Course in Quantitative Methods and Corpora in Linguistic Research

University of Pavia

4/7 July 2012

Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 9) at Lancaster University – UK

Oral presentation – “Framing identities in media discourse: the role of metonymy and metaphor”

19/25 September 2011

Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Pavia

Poster presentation “A cognitive approach to the language of emotions: the case of fear in Russian”

1/6 August 2011

European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2011) at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

26/29 April 2011

Ph. D. Course in Contemporary Cognitive Linguistics at the University of Tromsø, Norway

Research interests

Russian Language and Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and Semantics.