Analyzing Multimodality in Specialized Discourse Settings: Innovative Research Methods and Applications

Veronica Bonsignori (PhD, English Linguistics) is a research fellow in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Rome "Foro Italico". Her interests are in the fields of pragmatics, audiovisual translation, multimodality, and ESP. She has published several articles in national and international journals and collections. She has also authored the monograph 'English Tags: A Close-up on Film Language, Dubbing and Conversation' (2013) and co-edited with Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli the volume 'Multimodality Across Communicative Settings, Discourse Domains and Genres' (2016). Her most recent publications include the paper 'Using films and TV series for ESP teaching: A multimodal perspective' (System, 2018) and 'A multimodal analysis of spoken medical English in expert-to-expert interaction in TV programmes' (Ibérica, 2019). Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli (PhD, Applied Linguistics) is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Pisa. Her research focuses primarily on corpus-assisted discourse analysis to investigate the lexico-grammatical, discursive, pragmatic, rhetorical, multimodal, and intercultural features of discourse in academic, professional, and digital settings. She has published extensively in leading international journals including 'Journal of Pragmatics, English for Specific Purposes', and 'Text & Talk'. She co-edited the volume 'Multimodal analysis in academic settings. From research to teaching' in the Routledge Studies in Multimodality Series (2015), as a well as a Special Issue of System entitled 'Multimodal perspectives on English language teaching in higher education' (2018). Denise Filmer (PhD, Translation Studies) is a research fellow in English language and translation at the University of Pisa, Italy. Adopting multimodal critical discourse analysis approaches, her research investigates the role of translation in media representations of political discourse, gender and sexuality, and the current migrant crisis. She has authored a monograph entitled 'Racial Slurs: Last Linguistic Taboo and Translational dilemma' (Lambert Academic Publishing 2012), contributed to volumes published by John Benjamins and Routledge and published widely in international journals, including 'Perspectives: Studies in translatology, Cultus: International journal of intercultural mediation and communication', and the 'European Journal for Language Policy'.