Giulia Lombardi, Principal Investigator of the ILDILAW project, spent one month as a visiting researcher at the Universität Basel within the Department of Linguistics and Literature (Italian Studies), hosted by Prof. Angela Ferrari.

During her stay, she focused on the analysis of implicit meanings in legal texts, applying tools from text linguistics and discourse analysis. This research activity contributes to advancing the study of implicit communication within the ILDILAW project.

As part of her visiting period (April–May 2026), she also delivered two academic lectures focusing on language, text comprehension, and specialized communication.

On 24 April 2026, she gave a seminar lecture within the course “Ma cosa vuol dire scrivere semplice? Riflessioni tra scrittura letteraria e scrittura comunicativa” at the Department of Linguistics and Literature. Her talk, entitled “Capire i documenti. Strategie linguistiche per agevolare la comprensione dei testi istituzionali in lingua seconda”, addressed linguistic strategies for facilitating the comprehension of institutional texts in a second language.

On 6 May 2026, she delivered a lecture for the doctoral students of the Hermann Paul School of Linguistics Basel entitled “Lawyers’ pleadings – presupposition and the functions of implicit content in persuasive texts”, focusing on the role of presupposition and implicit content in persuasive legal discourse.