2026
Visiting Period at the University of Basel (April, 10th - May, 10th).
Implicit Language — Lecture at the University of Winterthur
A presentation exploring the role of implicit language in communication, focusing on how meaning is conveyed beyond explicit words through context, intention, and interpretation. The lecture was held at the University of Winterthur on Thursday the 7th of May.Research Methods in Terminology — Online Workshop
An online presentation delivered on the 8th of May as part of the Research Methods in Terminology workshop organized by AILA Europe and MANYE. The talk focused on innovative approaches to identifying prefixed terminology in legal corpora, with particular attention to evidence drawn from the AttiChiari Corpus.Comunica 2026 - conference presentation
The talk was presented on 22 May 2026 at the Congress "Comunica 2026. Comunicare all'università oggi", held at the Centro Linguistico dell'Università degli Studi di Perugia (CLA). The contribution focused on an interdisciplinary didactic model for teaching clear and effective legal writing, integrating insights from democratic linguistics, legal linguistics, classical rhetoric, and professional education studies. Particular attention was devoted to the role of ethos, logos, and pathos in the construction of professional credibility, legal argumentation, and pragmatic management of persuasion in forensic texts.XVIII SILFI Congress — Poster Presentation
A poster presented on 28 May 2026 at the XVIII Congress of the Società Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana (SILFI), held at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The contribution focused on mitigation and strengthening strategies in Italian legal pleadings, examining how lawyers pragmatically construct disagreement and contest the arguments of the opposing party through the interplay of hedges, shields, and upgraders.
XI DILLE Congress — Poster Presentation
A poster presented on 4th June 2026 at the XI Congress of the Società Italiana di Didattica delle Lingue e Linguistica Educativa (DILLE), held at the "L'Orientale" University in Naples. The poster presentation focused on the challenges that international students learning Italian as a second language face when understanding university administrative and bureaucratic texts. In particular, it examined how implicit meanings, such as presuppositions and implicatures, can create barriers to academic inclusion, since successful comprehension depends not only on understanding the explicit content but also on interpreting what is left unsaid. The study highlighted the importance of making institutional communication more pragmatically accessible for linguistically diverse student populations.
IX DISROM Conference — Oral Presentation
A presentation delivered on 11 June 2026 at the IX International Conference Marcatori discorsivi nelle lingue romanze (DISROM IX), held at the University of Oviedo. The contribution examined the use of epistemic markers in Italian legal pleadings, exploring how mitigation, strengthening, and epistemic stance interact in the construction of legal argumentation. Drawing on data from the AttiChiari Corpus, the study showed that epistemic markers often perform multiple pragmatic functions simultaneously, contributing not only to the expression of certainty and uncertainty but also to the negotiation of interpretative authority and enunciative responsibility in legal discourse.
IAFLL 2026 — Oral Presentation
A presentation delivered at the IAFLL 2026 Conference, held at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier. The contribution introduced a novel annotation framework for identifying Non-Bona Fide Vagueness in Italian lawyers' pleadings, distinguishing between cooperative and strategically persuasive uses of vague language. Drawing on the LISP Corpus, the study presented a multi-layer annotation scheme that classifies semantic and syntactic vagueness together with their pragmatic functions, providing a methodology for investigating vagueness as an implicit persuasive device in legal discourse.
— Oral Presentation (with Davide Garassino)
A presentation delivered at the IAFLL 2026 Conference, held at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier. The contribution evaluated the potential of Large Language Models as annotators of implicit linguistic devices in Italian lawyers' pleadings. Using data from the LISP Corpus, the study compared GPT-5 and human annotators in the identification and classification of strategic presuppositions, showing that while LLMs achieve substantial agreement in classification tasks, human supervision remains essential for the reliable annotation of implicit meaning in legal discourse.