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 language The structure of conversation.

Analysing spoken language The structure of conversation 2

Adjacency pairs in conversational exchanges.

The articles discussed are available in Via San Simone.

2nd MODULE (dott. Cappelli)

Handout n.1 (March 16)

Taping spoken language (March 20)

Vague Language, (March 20).

YouTube video to transcribe and analyse.

Vague Language in English

Story-telling.

Story Telling - slides

Repetition.

Fillers.

Fillers - Slides

3rd MODULE (dott. Cappelli)

corpus-linguistics

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

The functions of silence

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

What are discourse markers?

Implementing incipient actions: The discourse marker ’so’ in English conversation

Discourse markers in oral narrative

Exam results

maggio2009
giugno2009