Author: Elsa Musacchio

Elsa Musacchio holds a BA and an MA in Foreign Languages from Università Orientale di Napoli. Her work focuses in particular on Balkan languages. She speaks several modern and ancient languages. She has worked as a translator and interpreter and taught foreign languages in Italian and English schools for many years. She has published articles in Albanian peer-reviewed journals on the language spoken in Portocannone.Barbara Gabriella Renzi holds a PhD from Queen”s University Belfast. Her research is at the crossroad between philosophy and linguistics with a particular emphasis on metaphors. She has published in high quality peer-reviewed journals. She has co-authored, with Giulio Napolitano, the volume Evolutionary Analogies: Is the Process of Scientific Change Analogous to the Organic Change? published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.