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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Itália
She has a degree in Foreign Languages #8203;#8203;and Literatures at Università degli Studi di Bari (German / English) and in Translation at Ruprecht-Karls Universität de Heidelberg (German / Italian / Portuguese). Master in Italian Language and Literature and PhD in Linguistics were completed at the University of São Paulo (USP). In 2010-11, she developed a postdoctoral research at the Università degli Studi di Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy (fellow Capes) in pragmatics. She is currently a PhD Professor (MS-3 - level 2) at the University of São Paulo, where she works in undergraduate and graduate courses (master's degree and doctorate). Her main research interests are in the area of #8203;#8203;Linguistics and Italian Language. She works mainly in the following subjects: Pragmatics, Acquisition / learning of second languages, Teaching Italian as L2, Narrative and discursive semiotics, Intercomprehension in Romance languages, migration and Brazil-Italy relations. She coordinated the graduate program "Língua, Literatura e Cultura Italianas". She was president of the Brazilian Association of Teachers of Italian (Associação Brasileira dos Professores de Italiano - ABPI - 2019-2024) and is now a member of the board. She is also a member of the board of the International Association of Teachers of Italian (Associazione Internazionale dei Professori di Italiano - AIPI) and a member of other scientific associations of the area. She is director of the Research Group Interlanguage, cross-cultural and intercultural Pragmatics (GPP) and of the Research Group Language, Identity and Memory: the Italian of the Italians of Brazil (GLIM), and also a researcher at LEER (Laboratory of Studies on Ethnicity, Racism and Discrimination at the University of São Paulo) and of the project "Deslocamentos humanos: narrativas e representações" (Fapesp - processo n. 2018/10053-8). She is the researcher responsible for the Fapesp project "The speech act of requesting from the perspective of contrastive pragmatics: a plurilingual and multicultural approach" (process n. 2022/05865-9). She is also co-founder of the GT at ANPOLL "Estudos Pragmáticos" and of the Brazilian Association of Pragmatics (Associação Brasileira de Pragmática). She coordinates the double doctoral degree agreement with the Sapienza/Rome Tre Doctorate in Linguistics, as well as several other academic cooperation agreements with Italian universities. In 2022, she was Visiting Professor at Università degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Intercultural communication, enhanced by the use of technology and the increasingly frequent migrations, is a constitutive part of contemporary society daily life. In order to investigate this scenario, the centrality of language, which can be considered "a symbolic guide to culture" (SAPIR, 1949, p. 162), is unquestionable. In particular, when the objective is to compare more cultures to…
The research project "Elaboration and analysis of a corpus in a research on cross-cultural pragmatics", for which we decided to invite Prof. Elena Nuzzo, aims to set up a corpus to carry out a study in cross-cultural pragmatics, to compare, at a first moment, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and Italian data, based on requests produced by native speakers of each language, collected through D…
At universities or schools where Italian language is taught, informally, a lot is said on the linguistic behavior and, more specifically, on the politeness found in the speech acts of native speakers of Italian in opposition to that found in the speech acts of Brazilians. Such comments lead us to think more about the self-image that Italians project to other people, about the way they are…
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