Università della Svizzera Italiana
Università della Svizzera Italiana is represented in the CLARIN-CH Consortium by Prof. Andrea Rocci, from the Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics.
The community from the Università della Svizzera Italiana provides CLARIN-CH expertise in language sciences.
In addition, USI is offering a PhD programme on Managing Languages, Arguments and Narratives in the Datafied Society (LAND) in cooperation with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW).
Faculties and Departments involved in CLARIN-CH
Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society
Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics
Areas of expertise:
Advertising
Adult-children argumentation
Argumentation
Argumentation and education
Argumentation in oral discourse
Argumentation in newsroom interaction
Argumentation in conflict resolution
Argumentation in dispute mediation
Argumentation in business-financial journalism
Argumentation in discourses on fashion sustainability
Children's Reasoning
Collaborative argumentation
Conflict Resolution
Discourse structure and discourse relations from the viewpoint of Congruity Theory
Discourse genres of financial disclosures
Discourse analysis
Dispute Mediation
Equal Opportunity
Financial Communication
Financial Journalism
Intercultural pragmatics and intercultural argumentation
Interpersonal Communication
Interpersonal Argumentation
Linguistics
Migration
Modality in argumentation: the semantics, pragmatics and argumentative functions of lexical and morphological expressions of modality and evidentiality
Multimodal Communication
Multimodality (e.g., printed documents and audiovisuals)
Multimodal argumentation
Newsroom Interaction
Persuasion
Public controversies
Semantics
Semiotics
Social media argumentation
Spoken argumentation
Visual/multimodal rhetoric
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Institute of Italian Studies
Areas of expertise:
Applied Linguistics
Argumentation
Bilingualism
Conversation analysis
Corpus Linguistics
Discourse analysis
Discourse
French language
Historical pragmatics
Italian language
Language teaching
Lexical semantics
Linguistic semantics
Metapragmatics in relation to conduct and etiquette manuals
Pragmatics
Stylistics of literary dialogue
Text Linguistics
The pragmatics of politeness and impoliteness
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