Auteur: Maria Cristina Nisco

Giuseppe Balirano has a PhD in English Linguistics, and is a tenured Senior Lecturer at the University of Naples L »Orientale. His current research and publications focus mainly on language, identity, and multimodality, varieties of English and humour. He is the founder of a research consortium, I-LanD, which investigates identity, language and diversity. His principal publications include Language, Theory and Society (co-edited with M. C. Nisco, 2015); Variation and Varieties in Contexts of English (co-edited with J. Bamford and J. Vincent, 2012); and Indian English on TV (2008). Maria Cristina Nisco has a PhD in English Linguistics, and is a Research Fellow at the University of Naples L »Orientale. Her current research areas include the language of the press, media studies, and corpus-based discourse analysis, as reflected in her book Framing Agency in the 2011 UK Riots: A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis of British Newspapers (2015). She has also researched and published on varieties of English, having authored The Routes of English: (Un)Mapping the Language (2010), and translation as intercultural communication.