Teaching
Fall Term 2001 - Italian 204-304 at the University of Chicago as a visiting scholar.
Spring Term of 2005 and 2006 - English Linguistics for the students of Euro-American Languages and Literatures at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Pisa.
Fall Term 2006 - Tourism English for the 1st and 2nd year students of the Faculty of Tourism Sciences in Lucca and English Linguistics for the 3rd year students of “Letterature per l’editoria e la produzione culturale” (University of Pisa).
Spring Term 2007 - English Linguistics for the students of LEA and LEFE (Euro-American Languages and Literatures and European Literature and Philology - Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Pisa) and Business English for the 3rd year students of the Faculty of Tourism Sciences in Lucca.
Fall Term 2007 - Tourism English for the 1st and 2nd year students of the Faculty of Tourism Sciences in Lucca and English Linguistics for the 3rd year students of “Letterature per l’editoria e la produzione culturale” (University of Pisa).
Spring Term 2008 - English Linguistics for the students of LEA and LEFE (Euro-American Languages and Literatures and European Literature and Philology - Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Pisa) and Comparative Linguistics (English-Italian) for the Master in Traduzione Specialistica (ICON).
Fall Term 2008 - Tourism English for the 1st and 2nd year students of the first level degree in Tourism Sciences in Lucca and for the 2nd year students of the second level degree in Tourism Sciences in Lucca (University of Pisa - Campus Lucca).
Spring Term 2009 - English Linguistics for the students of LEA and LEFE (Euro-American Languages and Literatures and European Literature and Philology - Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Pisa).
Spring Term 2009
English Language 1 and 2 - Second Level Degree Courses LEA e LEFE
(with Prof. Silvia Bruti)
Course Program
The course program is valid for both the 1st and 2nd year students. 2008/2009 Course outline - LEA/LEFE 1 and 2.
Course Handouts
1st MODULE (prof. Bruti)
This part of the course is mandatory for all LEA/LEFE students.
Analysing spoken languageThe structure of conversation.
Analysing spoken languageThe structure of conversation 2
Adjacency pairs in conversational exchanges.
The articles discussed are available in Via San Simone.
2nd MODULE (dott. Cappelli)
Taping spoken language (March 20)
Vague Language, (March 20).
YouTube video to transcribe and analyse.
3rd MODULE (dott. Cappelli)
Little Women (zip file) (dott.ssa Montefiori).
Articles presented by the students
Interactive aspects of vagueness in conversation
Narrative, opinion and situated argument in talk show discourse
Approaches to spoken interaction
Pragmatic markers revisited with a focus on you know in adult and adolescent talk
So who? Like how? Just what? Discourse markers in the conversations of Young Canadians
Implementing incipient actions: The discourse marker ’so’ in English conversation
Discourse markers in oral narrative