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SARA GESUATO

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Position

Professoressa Associata

Structure

Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari - DISLL

Address

VIA E. VENDRAMINI, 13 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498279773

E-mail

sara.gesuato@unipd.it

EDUCATION
First-level degree in Foreign Modern Languages and Literatures U. of Padua 1983-88
U. of Padua and the U. of California exchange program, Berkeley 1989-90
MA in linguistics U. of California at Berkeley 1992-94
PhD in linguistics U. of Padua 1994-98
Post-doc in linguistics U. of Padua 2000-02
PhD in linguistics U. of California, Berkeley 1995-1999, 2005
Visiting scholar U. of California, Berkeley, Linguistics Dept April-May 2012

FELLOWSHIPS
U. of California Education Abroad Program Fellowship 1989-90
U. of Padua Scholarship for post-graduate study abroad 1992-94

TEACHING
Teaching assistant, Linguistics Dept. U. of California Berkeley 1992-95
Teaching assistant, Italian Studies Dept. U. of California Berkeley 1996-98
Lecturer of Italian U. of California Study Center Padua 2000-03
Lecturer of semantics Fac. Medicine and Surgery U. of Padua 1999, 2000, 2006
Lecturer of pragmatics Fac. Medicine and Surgery U. of Padua 2008-10
Associate professor of English Fac. Education, U. of Padua 2002-09
Associate professor of English Fac.Letters U. of Padua 2009-12
Associate professor of English Dept. Linguistic and Literary Studies, U. of Padua 2012-on
Seminar holder for PhD students U. of Padua 2005-11, 2012-13
Lecturer of pragmatics, Dept. Linguistic and Literary Studies, U. of Padua 2015-on
Guest lecturer of an intensive Discourse Analysis course, U. of Kostanay, Kazakhstan 30 Nov.-12 Dec. 2015

OTHER
Member of PhD Programme in Linguistic, Philological and Literary Sciences (2014-17)
Qualified as Full prof. English Language L-LIN/12

RESEARCH FIELDS
Pragmatics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis

Notices

Office hours

  • at Ufficio n. 56, Beato Pellegrino e in Zoom (https://unipd.zoom.us/j/392094769)
    A partire dal 15 gennaio 2024 il ricevimento si terrà solo per appuntamento. Lo/la studente interessato/a dovrà scrivere alla docente indicando 3 possibili date e/o orari in cui sarebbe possibile incontrarsi e specificare se si presenterà in ufficio o se si collegherà da remoto. NB: Sarò in missione di ricerca dal 14 marzo al 14 aprile 2024.

  • at Office No. 56, Beato Pellegrino and in Zoom (https://unipd.zoom.us/j/392094769)
    To request an appointment, send and email message suggesting 3 possible times/days. NB: I will be on research leave from March 14 to April 14

Teachings

Publications

Recent publications

2016
“Producing and accepting offers: the co-construction of discourse in goal-oriented interaction”, in J. Granich, I. Kecskes (eds.), 7th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication (INPRA) 2016, 10-12 June 2016, University of Split, Book of Abstracts, Split, University of Split, pp. 64-65
“Responding to gratitude in elicited oral interaction. A taxonomy of communicative options”, in Lingue e Linguaggi, 19, pp. 197-220, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it
“A research-based teaching unit for ESL/EFL students: responses to gratitude”, in K. Bardovi-Harlig, C. Félix-Brasdefer (eds.), Pragmatics & Language Learning, Vol. 14, Honolulu, HI, University of Hawai’i, National Foreign Language Resource Center, pp. 293-322
(with F. Bianchi; eds.), Pragmatic Issues in Specialized Communicative Contexts, Leiden/Boston, Brill, pp. 1-235

2017
“The PhD thesis report: building trust in an emerging genre”, in R. Salvi, J. Turnball (eds.), The Discursive Construal of Trust in the Dynamics of Knowledge Diffusion, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 26-45
“Addressing interpersonal needs in oral interaction: the case of apology responses” in L. Landolfi, E. Federici, F. Cavaliere (eds.) Translational subjects, linguistic encounters: selected papers from the XXVII AIA conference, Vol. II, Napoli: Liguori Editore, pp. 122-133
“Pragmatic perception of communicative acceptability: gut reactions and constructive criticism”, in Liliana Landolfi (ed.) E-Factor: English Education, Empowerment & Emotivation, Series “Linguistica e Linguaggi” vol. 38, Napoli: Liguori Editore, pp. 37-46

2018
“Mixed methods in raising ssociopragmatic awareness: A proposal for combining insights from the teacher's feedback and the interlocutor's point of view”, System, (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2018.03.006)

2019
(with E. Castello) “Pope Francis’s Laudato si’: A corpus study of environmental and religious discourse”, Lingue e Linguaggi, 29: 121-145
“News fractals: linguistic and discursive properties of BBC news alerts”, in Bonsignori, Gloria Cappelli and Elisa Mattiello (eds.) WORLDS OF WORDS: Complexity, Creativity, and Conventionality in English Language, Literature and Culture, Vol. I, Pisa, Pisa University Press, ISBN 9788833392448, pp. 103-114
“Can you Tell a Move When you Encounter One? Identifying Clues to Communicative Functions”, in Patricia Salazar-Campillo and Victória Codina-Espurz (eds.) Investigating the learning of pragmatics across ages and contexts, Series: Utrecht Studies in Language and Linguistics, vol. 34, Leiden/Boston, Brill Rodopi, ISBN 978-90-04-40969-9, pp. 221-257
(with F. Bianchi) “The adaptation of a novel to filmic needs: thematic focus in the subtitles of two filmic versions of Pride and Prejudice, in Textus 2: 93-109
(with R. Coronato, eds.) “The Literature-Linguistics Interface - Bridging the Gap: Between Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Literary Texts”, Umanistica Digitale 6: 1-116
(with E. Castello) “Holding up one’s end of the conversation in spoken English: Lexical backchannels in L2 examination discourse”, International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 5(2): 234–256

Research Area

Pragmatics, genre and text analysis, academic discourse, lexical semantics, corpus linguistics, English language teaching, speech acts, tense and aspect

Thesis proposals

speech act description in English grammars and course books;

social variation in language usage and perception of language usage

rhetorical structure of non-literary genres;

corpus-driven semantic profiling of terms/expressions;

gender and language;

linguistic analysis of literary texts

retrieval of implied meanings in texts

politeness of fictional characters in novels/films

verbal humour

language of specific genres/registers (e.g. advertising, memes)

language avoidance