Nicoletta Simi, Gianmarco Vignozzi

Nicoletta Simi is a Research Fellow (RTDa) at the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics at the University of Pisa. Before her current post, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Psychology of the University of Tübingen, Germany. She holds a PhD in English linguistics from the University of Pisa. Her interests involve the development of a comprehensive understanding of key phenomena at stake in reading comprehension processes. She gives further attention to the underlying general processes such as cognitive processing speed, working memory and motivational / anxiety aspects of language use.

Gianmarco Vignozzi, PhD in English Linguistics, is a Research Fellow at the Department of Philology, Literature, and Linguistics at the University of Pisa. His research interests encompass corpus-assisted discourse analysis applied to media discourses and specialized English, as well as audiovisual translation through dubbing. His latest publications include “Embedding Oral Communication in Law Firm Websites: A Study on Identity Construction through Person Pro-forms in Attorneys’ Video FAQs” (Textus, 2022), “On the Role of Gestures in the Comprehension of Phrasal Verbs and Idiomatic Expressions in English: A Case Study Comparing the Performance of Learners with and without Dyslexia” (Lingue e Linguaggi, 2022).