SONIA RACHELE PIOTTI
Researcher
English Language and Linguistics
[email protected]
Education
July 2006
Appointed Researcher in English Language and Linguistics, Università Cattolica
del Sacro Cuore
1997-2000
D. Scholarship in Applied Linguistics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,
Milan
11 - 23 August 2003
Training Course in Teaching English for Business Purposes, Institute for
Applied Language Studies, University of Edinburgh
June 2000
Appointed Lecturer in General English, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
1997-2000
Ph.D. Student with scholarship in Applied Linguistics, Università Cattolica del
Sacro Cuore, Milan
23 July- 10 August 1990
Training Course in English as a Foreign Language, King Street College, London
1995
Degree in Modern Languages and Literatures, Università Cattolica del Sacro
Cuore, Brescia
1988-1995
Degree Course in Foreign Languages and Literatures, Università Cattolica del
Sacro Cuore, Brescia
Current Position and Previous posts
2009/2010
Supplenza al corso “Lingua Inglese” H-Z, Faculty of Economics, Università
degli Studi di Brescia
2007/2008-2008/2009
Supplenza al corso “Basic English” H-Z, Faculty of Economics, Università degli
Studi di Brescia
2006/2007-2009/2010
Professor of English Linguistics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia
2006/2007
Professor of English at the Faculty of Law, Università degli Studi di Brescia
200/2001-2001/2002
Professor of English at the Faculty of Medicine, Università degli Studi di
Brescia
2000/2001
Workshop for Trainee Secondary School Teachers of English, Università
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
1996/1997-2005/2006 Lecturer in General English, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia
Societies
Since 2004: Member of the Associazione Italiana per la Terminologia (Ass.I.Term.)
Since 2006: Member of the Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (A.I.A)
Since 2006: Member of the Europea Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
Coordination of Teaching and Board Memberships
2008/2009:
Coordinator of English Language Courses at the Faculty of Linguistics and
Foreign
Literatures, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia
2006/2007-2009/2010: Coordinator of English Language Courses for the Centro Linguistico di Ateneo,
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia
2006/2007-2009-2010: Supervisor of bachelor’s degrees in English Linguistics at the Faculty of Linguistics
and Foreign Literatures, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia
2000-2002:
Coordinator of English Language Courses at the Faculty of Medicine, Università degli
Studi di Brescia
Research interests
Intercultural Communication; ESP, Business and Corporate Communication; Corpus Linguistics; History of the
English Language; Socio-linguistics and New Englishes
Publications
Brescia per il turista inglese: aspetti linguistici, in M. Taccolini (a cura di), Il turismo bresciano tra passato e
futuro, Atti del Convegno, Brescia 3-4- Novembre 2000, Vita & Pensiero, Milano 2001, pp. 291-296.
Millennium Bug: cronaca di un evento «that never was», in G. Gobber – C. Milani (a cura di), Tipologia dei testi
e tecniche espressive, Atti del Convegno, Milano 15-16 Novembre 2001, Trattati e Manuali, Vita & Pensiero,
Milano 2002, pp. 167-190.
Interpretare i processi di formazione del lessico inglese: il caso di –er, in Il Lexical Approach: una proposta
utile?, Atti della Giornata Bresciana della Glottodidattica, Brescia, 15 Marzo 2002, «RILA», XXXV, 1-2
(Gennaio-Agosto 2003), pp. 225-235.
Analisi lessicosemantica del vocabolario medico antico inglese: il corpo umano femminile, «L’Analisi
Linguistica e Letteraria», 2, 2003, pp. 529-562.
The First Algebra Printed in English: The Whetstone of Witte (1557) of Robert Recorde, ISU, Milan 2005.
“Relevance and Reliability in Economic and Financial Reporting: An Analysis of CEOS’ Letters and
Chairmen’s Statements”, in G. Del Lungo Camiciotti, M. Dossena, B. Crawford Camiciottoli (eds.), Variation in
business and economics discourse: diachronic and genre perspectives (Varietà di testi-Varietà di lingue 6),
Officina Edizioni, Rome 2006: 115-125.
“Rhetorical Conventions of Science under the Tudors”, in G. Iamartino, M.L. Maggioni, R. Facchinetti (eds.),
Thou sittest at another boke…. . English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini, English Library: The
Linguistics Bookshelf, Volume 3, Polimetrica 2008: 321-330.
“L’informazione al consumatore: la terminologia delle fonti energetiche e le variazioni negli usi testuali”,
AIDAinformazioni, 1-2/2008, gennaio-giugno 2008: 129-142.
“The Origins of the Vocabulary of Arithmetic and Algebra in Early Modern English: Robert Recorde and The
Whetstone of Witte (1557), in G. Iamartino - P. Ardizzone (eds), Proceedings of Conference “Lexicology and
Lexicography of Domain-Specific Languages” University of Palermo, June 21-22 2007, Polimetrica 2009
(c.d.s.).
“The Rhetoric of Financial and Accounting Reporting. A Corpus-driven Analysis of Hedging in Company
Annual Reports”, Progedit, Bari 2009, pp 290-302.
Exploring Corporate Rhetoric in English: Hedging in Company Annual Reports. A Corpus-assisted Analysis.
Brescia: CLUB 2009.
Reviews
“English for Specific Purposes”, XXIV, 2005, 4, “L’Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria”, 1 (2006): 239-240.
Heidi Harley, English Words. A Linguistic Introduction, The Language Library, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford
2006, “L’Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria”, 1 (2006): 237-238.
Liliane Haegeman, Thinking Syntactically. A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis, Blackwell Textbooks in
Linguistics, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 2006, “L’Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria”, 1 (2006): 238-239.
Jan Svartvik-Geoffrey Leech, English. One Tongue, Many Voices, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2006,
“L’Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria”, 2 (2007): 431.
Annalisa Zanola, Global English in International Business: An Introduction, CLUB, Brescia 2008, “L’Analisi
Linguistica e Letteraria” (2009) (accettata per la pubblicazione sul numero 2/2009).
Elizabeth B. de Groot, English annual reports in Europe: a study on the identification and reception of genre
characteristics in multimodal annual reports originating in the Netherlands and in the United Kingdom,
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, LOT (182), 2008, “L’Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria” (accettata per
la pubblicazione sul numero 2/2009).
