作者: Siria Guzzo

Siria Guzzo is a Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Salerno, Italy. She obtained her PhD in English for Special Purposes from the University of Naples “Federico II”, an MA in Sociolinguistics from the University of Essex, UK, and a BA (Hons) in Modern Languages and Literature from the University of Naples “Suor Orsola Benincasa”, Italy. She has conducted research and published in the fields of sociolinguistics and language variation and change. Her research has concentrated on migration and its effects on identity, new dialect/ethnolect formation, language contact and its outcomes, and first and second language acquisition. Her publications include wide-ranging investigations on the Anglo-Italian community in the UK, and a forthcoming volume on the newly-emerging Cook Island variety of English.