Автор: Roberta Cella

Silvia Bruti (Ph.D. in English Studies, University of Pisa, 1997) is Associate Professor of English language and Linguistics at the University of Pisa. Her research interests include topics such as text-linguistics, discourse analysis, (historical) pragmatics, corpus linguistics and translation. She has published widely in these areas and contributed to national and international conferences. She is the editor of a collection of essay on reformulation and paraphrase (2004) and has recently investigated issues in intercultural pragmatics and audiovisual translation, e.g. the translation of compliments and terms of address in interlinguistic subtitles and dubbing [“Vocatives in subtitles: a survey across genres” (with E. Perego, 2008); “The translation of compliments in subtitles” (2009a); “Translating compliments and insults in the Pavia Corpus of Filmic Speech: two sides of the same coin?” (2009b)]. Roberta Cella (Ph.D. in Italian Studies, University of Pisa, 1999) is Associate Professor of Italian Linguistics at the University of Pisa and Associate Researcher at the «Opera del Vocabolario Italiano – Istituto CNR» of Florence. Her main works are on ancient Italian vocabulary (word borrowings from French and Provençal) and practical texts written by medieval Italian merchants; among other things, she also wrote on vernacular epistolography in the Middle Ages, Brunetto Latini, Giovanni Villani and Antonio Pucci.Marina Foschi Albert (Ph.D. in German Literature, University of Maryland, College Park, Md., 1991) is Associate Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Pisa. Her main research objects are German texts, which she approaches at several levels (grammar, structures, style) and from different perspectives, including hermeneutics, intercultural discourse and DaF [German as a Foreign Language] methodology. Among her recent publications are Lettura e comprensione del testo in lingua tedesca [Reading and comprehending German texts] (with Hardarik Brühdorn, 2006), Generi letterari. Narrativa [Literary text types: Narrative] (20073), Generi letterari. Lirica [Literary text types: Lyric] (with Loretta Lari, 20084) Il profilo stilistico del testo [The style profile of texts] (2009).