Raffaele ZAGO

Assistant Professor of Language and translation - English [L-LIN/12]

Raffaele Zago (PhD in English Linguistics; National Scientific Habilitation) is researcher at the University of Catania, Department of Humanities, where he teaches English in two BA courses (European, Euro-American and Oriental Languages and Cultures; Sciences and Languages for Communication). His research interests are in the field of English applied linguistics and include spoken English, register variation, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, telecinematic dialogue and informal contact with English. In these areas, he has published two monographs (From Originals to Remakes. Colloquiality in English Film Dialogue over Time, 2016; Cross-Linguistic Affinities in Film Dialogue, 2018) and various articles/chapters. He is co-editor of the volumes Language, Expressivity and Cognition (Bloomsbury, 2023) and English Studies in Italy: New Directions and Perspectives (Carocci, in press). He is local coordinator of the national project The Informalisation of English Language Learning through the Media: Language Input, Learning Outcomes and Sociolinguistic Attitudes from an Italian Perspective. Also, he serves as departmental advisor for Erasmus and Internationalisation.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Spoken English, register variation, telecinematic dialogue, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, informal contact with English.

Bednarek, Monika and Zago, Raffaele. 2024. Bibliography of linguistic research on fictional (narrative, scripted) television series and films/movies, version 7 (September 2024). Available here.