Sergio Pizziconi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6909081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sergio Pizziconi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sergio |
| FAMILY NAME | Pizziconi |
| SIGNATURE | PIZZICONI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pavia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1003-9860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Exploring Social Inclusion on Instagram
This study examines how university language centres (ULCs) use visual content on Instagram to convey the values of social inclusion. The analysis focuses on four ULCs affiliated with either the Association of University Language Centres in the UK and Ireland (AULC) or the Italian counterpart, Associazione Italiana Centri Linguistici Universitari (AICLU). Using a mixed-methods approach (eye-tracking data combined with thematic image coding), the s…
Data Possibly Suggest … Hedging in Second Language Writing
This paper explores the use of hedges in academic thesis abstracts among L1-Italian advanced university EFL learners drawing on a corpus of 217 abstracts written in English. Two rounds of contrastive analysis are carried out: 15 hedges are first compared to boosters and modals of logical possibility and inferential certainty. Secondly, a comparison is drawn against the MICUSP Corpus. Results show that EFL students tend to use fewer hedges than th…
Genetic Bragging as a Speech Act
The fast and consistent progress in DNA research has lead us to vent the possibility that bragging about one’s own genetic endowment is bound to become a linguistic practice with economic and social entailments. The family resemblance approach (Kleiber 1999) was used to shape what we dubbed here “genetic bragging” in a prototypical perspective to the definition of speech acts. Our assumption is that the “genealogical bragging” in the pre-DNA-test…
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Genetic Bragging as a Speech Act
The fast and consistent progress in DNA research has lead us to vent the possibility that bragging about one’s own genetic endowment is bound to become a linguistic practice with economic and social entailments. The family resemblance approach (Kleiber 1999) was used to shape what we dubbed here “genetic bragging” in a prototypical perspective to the definition of speech acts. Our assumption is that the “genealogical bragging” in the pre-DNA-test…
Data Possibly Suggest … Hedging in Second Language Writing
This paper explores the use of hedges in academic thesis abstracts among L1-Italian advanced university EFL learners drawing on a corpus of 217 abstracts written in English. Two rounds of contrastive analysis are carried out: 15 hedges are first compared to boosters and modals of logical possibility and inferential certainty. Secondly, a comparison is drawn against the MICUSP Corpus. Results show that EFL students tend to use fewer hedges than th…
Exploring Social Inclusion on Instagram
This study examines how university language centres (ULCs) use visual content on Instagram to convey the values of social inclusion. The analysis focuses on four ULCs affiliated with either the Association of University Language Centres in the UK and Ireland (AULC) or the Italian counterpart, Associazione Italiana Centri Linguistici Universitari (AICLU). Using a mixed-methods approach (eye-tracking data combined with thematic image coding), the s…
Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (2 works) · Computer Science (1 work) · Digital Communication and Language (1 work) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (1 work) · Indirect speech (1 work) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (1 work) · Law in Society and Culture (1 work) · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition (1 work)