Sara Gesuato, Elisabetta Pavan

Sara Gesuato is associate professor at Padua University. She teaches and does research in English language and linguistics. Her research fields include pragmatics, discourse and genre analysis, and corpus linguistics. She has analysed speech acts, academic genres, and catenative motion verb constructions. She has published over 100 works and organised various international conferences. She is currently investigating pedagogical applications of the analysis of oral and written initiating and responding speech acts.

Elisabetta Pavan is researcher at Padua University and associate professor at the University of Primorska (Slovenia). She teaches and carries out research on the English language and on applied linguistics. Her research and publications focus on several interrelated areas: language education, intercultural competences, pragmatics and English in intercultural settings. She has organised international conferences and was visiting professor at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). Her research interests mainly deal with the intercultural dimensions of languages, language learning and teaching.