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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.

 

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