Federica Ferrari

Academic career   

• 20 September 2021: Associate Professor L-LIN 12 at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC), University of Bologna.

 

• 1^st March 2014: Tenured Researcher L-LIN 12 at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC), University of Bologna.

 

• 1st March 2011- Researcher / Assistant Professor L-LIN/12 at the Faculty of Political Science, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC), University of Bologna.

• 2008-2011: Lecturer at Faculty of Education and Language Centre, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Trento, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Parma and University of Bologna.

 

• 2006-2007: Research Grant Holder, L-LIN/12, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

 

• 7th April, 2006: Ph.D. in “Language and Culture Sciences”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

   

 

 

Titles and Education

 

 

• Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, UCBerkeley, Sponsor Prof. George Lakoff, April 2012 (6-21).

 

• 21st December, 2010: Researcher position obtained in L-LIN/12 at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna, following competitive entrance examination (proclaimed with D.R. n. 1434, 17/12/2009, ended and signed on 21/12/2010, and approved with D.R. n. 46, 20/01/2011).

 

• 2006-2009: Master in Counseling at A.S.P.I.C (Associazione per lo Sviluppo Psicologico dell'Individuo e della Comunità), founding member of E.A.C. (European Association for Counseling), and member of B.A.C. (British Association for Counseling); International Diploma obtained in Rome, July 2009.

 

• 14th September 2007 – 18th July 2008: Linguistic Advisor within the project “Advising Activity in Self-learning” enacted by decree n. 479 on 17th July 2007, whose acts have been approved by decree n. 512 on 28th August 2007.

 

• 16th November 2006 - 15 November 2007: Research Grant, L-LIN/12 (Language Culture and Institutions of Anglo-speaking Countries), on “Cultural key-words vocabulary variability” University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, enacted by decree n. 629 on 9th October 2006, whose acts are approved by rectoral decree n. 766 on 9th October 2006.

 

• 7th April, 2006: Ph.D. title (Doctoral Degree) in “Language and Culture Sciences”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Ph.D. dissertation on “Metaphor at Work: the persuasive strategy of  G. W. Bush Jr”.  Supervisor: Professor Marc Seth Silver.  

 

• 24th November 2005: Teaching Assistant title in “Language Culture and Institutions of Anglo-speaking Countries”.

 

• 7th July 2004: Piano Diploma obtained c/o ‘G. Frescobaldi' conservatoire in Ferrara.

 

• January 2003-2006: Ph.D candidate, Department of Language and Culture Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Ph.D. Program in Language and Culture Sciences. Supervisor: Professor Marc Seth Silver.

 

• 20th March 2002: Degree in European Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Degree Dissertation on “Choice in America: between semantic specificity and conceptual articulation”. Supervisor Professor Marc Seth Silver. Graduated with 110/110.

 

 

 

 

Language Certificates

 

 

CPE (Certificate of Proficiency English);

Delf (Diplôme d'Etudes de Langue Française): A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6.

   

 

 

Teaching experience

 

 

• A.A. 2023/2024, I and II Semester, Lecturer in English Linguistics for Course of Study in “Political, Social and International Sciences” (SPOSI, First Level Degree) and “International Development and Cooperation” (SVIC, First Level Degree), School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.

 

• A.A. 2023/2024, I Semester, Lecturer in English Linguistics II, module 1, for Course of Study “Language Society and Communication”, Department of Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures, University of Bologna.

 

• A.A. 2022/2023, I and II Semester, Lecturer in English Linguistics for Course of Study in “Political, Social and International Sciences” (SPOSI, First Level Degree) and “International Development and Cooperation” (SVIC, First Level Degree), School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.

 

• A.A. 2022/2023, I Semester, Lecturer in English Linguistics II, module 1, for Course of Study “Language Society and Communication”, Department of Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures, University of Bologna.

 

• A.A. 2021/2022, I and II Semester, Lecturer in English Linguistics for Course of Study in “Political, Social and International Sciences” (SPOSI, First Level Degree) and “International Development and Cooperation” (SVIC, First Level Degree), School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.
  

 

• A.A. 2021/2022, II Semester, Seminar E “Persuasion an Emotion”, Courses of Study internal and external to the Department of Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures, University of Bologna.

 

• A.A. 2020/2021, I and II Semester, Lecturer in English Linguistics for Course of Study in “Political, Social and International Sciences” (SPOSI, First Level Degree) and “International Development and Cooperation” (SVIC, First Level Degree), School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.

 

• A.A. 2019/2020, I and II Semester, Lecturer in English Linguistics for Course of Study in “Political, Social and International Sciences” (SPOSI, First Level Degree) and “International Development and Cooperation” (SVIC, First Level Degree), School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.

 

• A.A. 2018/2019, II Semester, Lecturer in English Linguistics for Course of Study in “Political, Social and International Sciences” (SPOSI, First Level Degree) and “International Development and Cooperation” (SVIC, First Level Degree), School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.

 

• A.A. 2017/2018, II Semester, Lecturer in English Linguistics for Course of Study in “Political, Social and International Sciences” (SPOSI, First Level Degree) and “International Development and Cooperation” (SVIC, First Level Degree), School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.

 

• A.A. 2016/2017, I Semester, Lecturer in “Specialized Languages – English”, II Module, Course of Study in “Language, Society and Communication” (Second Level Degree), School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna.

 

• A.A. 2016/2017, II Semester, Lecturer in English Linguistics for Course of Study in “Political, Social and International Sciences” (SPOSI, First Level Degree) and “International Development and Cooperation” (SVIC, First Level Degree), School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.

 

• A.A. 2015/2016, I Semester, Lecturer in “Specialized Languages – English”, II Module, Course of Study in “Language, Society and Communication” (Second Level Degree), School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna.

 

• A.A. 2015/2016, II Semester, Lecturer in English Linguistics for Course of Study in “Political, Social and International Sciences” (SPOSI, First Level Degree) and “Social Services” (SS, First Level Degree), School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.

 

• A.A. 2014/2015, II Semester, Lecturer in “Specialized Languages – English”, II Module,  Course of Study in “Language, Society and Communication” (Second Level Degree), School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna.

 

• A.A. 2014/2015, II Semester, Lecturer in English Linguistics for Course of Study in “Political, Social and International Sciences” (SPOSI, First Level Degree) and “Social Services” (SS, First Level Degree), School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.

 

• A.A. 2013/2014, II Semester, Lecturer in English Linguistics for Course of Study in “Political, Social and International Sciences” (SPOSI, First Level Degree) and “Social Services” (SS, First Level Degree), School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.

• A.A. 2012/2013, II Semester, Lecturer in English Linguistics for Course of Study in “Political, Social and International Sciences” (SPOSI, First Level Degree) and “Social Services” (SS, First Level Degree), School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.

• A.A. 2011/2012, II Semester, Lecturer in English Linguistics for Course of Study in “Political and Organizational Sciences”(SPORG, First Level Degree) and “Social Services” (SS, First Level Degree), Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.

 

• A.A. 2010/2011, II Semester, Lecturer in English Linguistics for Course of Study in “Political and Organizational Sciences” (SPORG, First Level Degree) and “Politics, Administration and Organization” (PAO, Master Degree), Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bologna. Taught Courses: Persuasion in Strategic Communication, Persuasion and Power.

 

• A.A. 2010/2011, I Semester, Temporary Lecturer in English Linguistics, Modena Language Centre, two ESP courses (humanistic and economic fields).

 

• A.A. 2010/2011, I Semester, Temporary Lecturer in English Linguistics, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bologna, Course of Study in “Political and Organizational Sciences” (SPORG, First Level Degree). Taught Course: Persuasion in Political Discourse.

 

• A.A. 2009/2010, II Semester and 2010/2011, I Semester, Temporary Lecturer in English Linguistics, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Parma, Course of Study in “International and European Relations” (Master Degree). Taught Course: Persuasion in Political Discourse.

 

• A. A. 2008/2009, II Semester; 2009/2010, I Semester, 2010/2011, I Semester: Temporary Lecturer of English Linguistics, Course of Study in Pedagogical Sciences (Master Degree), Faculty of Education, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Taught Course: Academic English.

 

• A.A. 2008/2009, I / II Semester; A.A. 2009/2010, I Semester: Temporary Lecturer in English Linguistics, Course of Study in “Language Mediation and Literary Communication”, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Trento. Taught Courses on: Word Order and Persuasion (IIIA 2008/2009, first level degree); Persuasion in Strategic Communication – Political Discourse (IIIB 2008/2009, first level degree); Persuasion in Ads (IIC 2008/2009, second level degree); Persuasive Communication in English: a Cognitive Perspective – Economic Discourse (IIA 2009/2010, second level degree); Business Communication and Advertising (IIB 2009/2010, second level degree).

 

• November 2003 – December 2007: In charge of Evening English Classes within the Courses organized by the Modena's Province at the Enrico Fermi Institute in Modena.

 

• September 2006 – December 2009: Advisor and Co-Advisor of Degree Theses in fields such as Political Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric and Argumentation, Political Communication, Cognitive Linguistics.

 

• A.A. 2007/2008, I Semester: “Persuasion in Contemporary American Political Discourse”, Seminar taught within the Research Assignment (art. 51, 6° comma, regulation n° 449, 27 December 1997), within “Language, Culture and Institutions of Anglo-speaking countries”, Course of Study in “European Languages and Cultures”, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

 

• A.A. 2006/2007, II Semester: “Negotiating Love in Contemporary American Comedy”, Seminar taught within the Research Assignment (art. 51, 6° comma, regulation n° 449, 27 December 1997), within “Language, Culture and Institutions of Anglo-speaking countries”, Course of Study in “European Languages and Cultures”, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

 

• A.A. 2006/2007, II Semester:  “Persuasion in Contemporary American Political Discourse”, Seminar taught within the Research Assignment (art. 51, 6° comma, regulation n° 449, 27 December 1997), within “Language, Culture and Institutions of Anglo-speaking countries”, Course of Study in “European Languages and Cultures”, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

 

• A.A. 2005/2006, I Semester: “Persuasion in Contemporary American Political Discourse”, Seminar taught as a Ph.D candidate, within “Language, Culture and Institutions of Anglo-speaking countries”, Course of Study in “European Languages and Cultures”, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

 

• 13 May 2006, A.A. 2005/2006: “The Lakoffian Metaphor. How does it Function? How does it Shape our Culture?”, Lecture within Professor Marc Seth Silver's Seminar “The Language of American Culture”, within “Language, Culture and Institutions of Anglo-speaking countries”, Course of Study in “European Languages and Cultures”, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

 

• 12 May 2005, A.A. 2004/2005: “La metafora di Lakoff”, Lecture within Professor Annalisa Coliva's Seminar “The Semiotics of Communication”, Course of Study in “European Languages and Cultures”, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

 

 

 

 

Main conferences and proceedings

 

 

• “What do you want? Working on ‘will’, the engine of persuasion”. Presentation at Cirm Conference “Metaphors, argumentation and institutions”, Torino 17-18 November, 2024.

• “Meaning & Healing”: poster presentation at 1st Specialist Seminar in Embodied Education, Brixen, 26-28 September, 2024.

 

• “Never Look Back”: contact style and persuasion in communication exchanges. Presentation at VII Congreso Internacional CyT, Università de Salento, Lecce, 22 May, 2024.

 

• “Unleash Passion: metaphors in transformation”. Seminar (on invitation) within the cycle on “Metaphor and Epistemic Injustice in Mental Illness”, PRIN-PNRR 2022 Project, online, 7 May, 2024.
  

 

• “Metaphor in self-diclosure” Presentation at Cirm Conference “Metaphors to the test of genres”, Genova 26-27 October, 2023.

 

• “Metafora e Cura”, Presentation at Cirm Seminars, online, 21 September, 2023.

 

• “In the search for conceptual metaphors through the text and beyond”. Workshop (on invitation) at CIRM international conference “Metaphor in digital communication”, University of Modena, 20-21 October, 2022.

 

• Workshop with Prof. Michel Burke on Charisma, Persuasion and attachment styles. Bologna, 16-19 May 2022.

 

• Presentation of the interventions of Prof. Michael Burke “Persuasion, Emotion and Charisma” at Seminar E “Persuasion and Emotion”, online, open to all interested people, 8 March, 2022; “Persuasion in Politics: aspects of the rhetorical past in the political present”, at courses of English for Political Sciences, Palazzo Hercolani Strada Maggiore 45, open to all interested people, Bologna, 11 April, 2022; “Persuasion Problems: why communication about the climate and sustainability often fails”, lecture for PhD students at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Via Cartoleria 5, Bologna, open to all interested people, 12 April 2022.

 

• “‘Who’s the hardest person to persuade?’ A work-in-progress on metaphor and self-disclosure”. Presentation at UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (virtual), University of Birmingham, 25-29 July 2020.

 

• “Metaphor and Persuasion in Strategic Communication: Sustainable Perspectives”. Presentation at: Rhetoric in Society 7, “Rhetoric as an Equipment for Living”, University of Ghent, 13-15 September 2019.

 

• “Metaphor and Persuasion in Strategic Communication”. Invited to present the book at Aula D2.8, Palazzo Dossetti, viale Allegri 9, Reggio Emilia, by Centro dipartimentale di ricerca "Metaphor and Narrative in Science". 29 maggio, 2019.

 

• Metaphor and Persuasion at work with Emotions and Identity in Interaction”. Presentation at: RESEARCHING METAPHOR – COGNITIVE AND OTHER AUTOUR DE LA MÉTAPHORE – DE LA MÉTAPHORE COGNITIVE ET D’AUTRES APPROCHES, University of Genoa, 13 – 15 May, 2019.

 

• “Metaphor & Persuasion in Strategic Communication”. Presentation at: RaAM12, Researching and Applying Metaphor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 27-30 June 2018.

 

• “La persona Integrata: dalla Metafora Trasformativa alla Persona Integrata [The Integrated Person: from Transformative Metaphor to the Integrated Person]”. Presentation at: VI Reico National Conference “Oltre le colonne d’Ercole [Beyond the Pillars of Hercules]”, Rome, 2 June, 2018.

 

• “Persuasion & Sustainability in Strategic Communication. Alias: ‘Words are Killers’”. Presentation at: CLAVIER 17 “Representing and Redefining Specialised Knowledge”, Bari, “Aldo Moro”. 30 November – 2 December 2017.

 

• “Emotion and Interaction in ‘Sustainable’ Persuasion Analysis and Practice: an Integrated Framework”. Presentation at: “Framing Minds: English in Affective Neurosciences”, Napoli, “L’Orientale”. 26-28 October 2017.

 

• “Intra & Interdisciplinary use of Corpus Approaches in Persuasion Analysis: potential, problems, future perspectives”. Presentation at: CLUB DAY corpora@unibo, LILEC, 21 February, 2017.
  

 

• Presentation of the conference of Prof. Ben O’Loughlin “Europe in Crisis: Media, Myth and the Struggle for Meaning" at Istituto di Studi Avanzati (ISA), University of Bologna, Via Marsala, 26, Bologna, 15 november 2016.

 

• “The ‘transformative’ power of metaphor: assessing its (unexplored) potential in ‘talking cure’ practices”. Presentation at RaAM11, Berlin, 1-4 July, 2016.

 

• “Metaphor & Narrative in Strategic Communication Analysis: Obama’s ‘red line’ in a ‘sustainable’ perspective”. Presentation with Professor Ben O’ Loughlin at RaAM11, Berlin, 1-4 July, 2016.

 

• “Analisi metaforica e stilistica dei corpora in prospettiva contrastiva: idee per stimolare la consapevolezza (inter)linguistica in classe”. (“Contrastive Metaphor analysis & Corpus stylistics: ideas for (inter)linguistic awareness-raising in the classroom”). Presentation with Jane Johnson (Researcher in English Language and Translation) at: Il testo letterario nell’apprendimento linguistico, LILEC, 13 May, 2016.

 

• “Media reverberations on the ‘RedLine’: Syria, Metaphor and Narrative in the news”. Poster presentation with Professor Ben O’ Loughlin at Corpus Linguistics 2015, Lancaster, 21-24 July, 2015.

 

• “Red Lines & Rash Decisions: Syria, Narrative and Metaphor”. Presentation with Professor Ben O’ Loughlin at Political Discourse – Multidisciplinary Approaches - UCL, London, 26-27 June, 2015.

 

• “The Transformative power of metaphor: assessing its (unexplored) potential at the crossroads between static and dynamic instances (for the sake of the patient/client self-exploration and well-being”. Presentation at CADAAD 2014 ( fifth international conference Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines), ELTE (Loránd Eötvös University), Budapest , Hungary ,  1-3 September, 2014.

 

• “The ‘transformative power of metaphor: assessing its (unexplored) potential for the sake of the patient/client self-exploration and well-being”. Poster presentation at 20th BACP Counselling and Psychotherapy Research Conference, 2014 ‘Researching the special relationship', London 16-17 May, 2014.

 

•  “Language ‘performances' and the ‘transformative' power of metaphor: assessing its (unexplored) potential ”. Author at XXVI AIA CONFERENCE Remediating, Rescripting, Remaking: Old and New Challenges in English Studies, University of Parma, 12-14 September, 2013.

 

• “A multichannel method for improving text comprehension”. Author at “Pragmatics on the go”, University of Padova, 17-19 June, 2013.

 

• Book presentation: "La sfida della Comunicazione. Guida Pratica al Planning della Comunicazione" Julian Saunders Ed. (Franco Angeli, 2013), with Emanuele Gabardi, main editor of the Italian edition, Federica Ferrari, translator and co-editor, Marcello Tedeschi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia), meeting coordinator and Vanni Codeluppi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia), discussant. 8 May 2013, 5.30 pm., Medilibrary, Viale allegri 9, Reggio Emilia.

 

•  “Translating Images in Advertising”. Author at “Tradurre Figure/Translating figurative Language”, University of Bologna, 12-14 December, 2012.

 

• “Making Connections”. Interactive participation in international meeting organized by BACP, Earls Court Ibis Hotel, London, UK, 22 September, 2012.

 

• “At the crossroads between subject and object of research: negotiating discoursal identity in academic writing” (Author), and member of organising committee, CADSConf, 2012CADS, University of Bologna, 13-14 September, 2012. 

 

• “At the crossroads between subject and object of research: Identity negotiation in the discourse of Psych. Doctors”. Author at “Space and Place in the Discursive Construction of Identity” International Conference, University of Naples l'Orientale, June 4-6 2012.

 

•   “On the biunivocal relation between Language & Thought: English future-ness as identity projection”. Author at “La Variazione Linguistica tra Literacy e Discorso Mediatico”, Lecce, 14-16 May 2012.

 

• "In lack of 'Will'?   Barack Obama's experiment”: Author, ISA Annual Convention San Diego, 4 April, 2012. Related activities in the same Convention: Discussant in Panel “Norms, Beliefs and new Communication Technologies”, and Roundtable Participant in “Changing Balances and Identities in the Mediterranean during and after the Arab Spring”, ISA San Diego, 4 April, 2012.

 

• “I, You, we, will: from intention negotiation to will creation and political action in Barack Obama's e-mail campaigning”. PRIN meeting, Roma, La Sapienza University, 10 June 2011.

• “Obama's rhetorical articulation of the Nation: a linguistic analysis”. Presentation on invitation at “Reframing the Nation: Media Publics and Strategic Narratives”. The Open University, Hawley Crescent, Cambden Town, London, 18-19 May, 2009.

• “Bush-Blair-Berlusconi and the Global War on Terror: Old Structures, New Discourses and the Contemporary Rhetoric of Conflict”. Presentation at ISA Annual Convention: “Exploring the Past, Anticipating the Future”. New York,  NY, 15-19 February, 2009.

• “Key-word driven contrastive (discourse) analysis: Bush vs. Blair: questioning persuasion (effectiveness) between cultural variation and stylistic idiosyncrasy”, presented at PRIN Workshop “Persuasion, Stance and Keywords”, Roma, La Sapienza University, 6 June, 2008.

• “Arguing for Love”, presented at I.A.D.A. Workshop “Word Meaning in Argumentative Discourse”, Milan, Cattolica University, 15-17 May, 2008.

• “Image management in calls to arms. Bush vs. Blair: efficacia persuasiva tra idiosincrasia stilistica e variazione culturale”, presented at the Workshop “Lingue policentriche a confronto: quando la periferia diventa centro”. Lecce, University of Salento, 8-9 May 2008.

• “The (American) Woman: as and beyond a category for analysis”, presented within the Theme Session “Conceptualizing women: a cross-cultural perspective” (Convenors: Masako Hiraga, Japan, Diane Ponterotto, Italy), at ICLC10 (10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference), “Cognitive Linguistics in Action: from Theory to Application and Back”, Krakov, 15-20 July 2007.

• “Metaphor at Work in the Analysis of Political Discourse: Investigating a ‘Preventive War' Persuasion Strategy”, presented at the XX SISP Annual Convention, University of Bologna, 12-14 September 2006.

• “Slasher: politica o pubblicità”, presented at the Conference “Maschere e pugnali. Cinema, storia e propaganda da Cuba all'Iraq”, University of Genova, 23-24 May 2005.

• “I discorsi di G. W. Bush alla nazione: rappresentazione e persuasione”, presented at the Day of Study and Round Table “Revisioni e Revisionismi”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 13 May 2005.

• “G. W. Bush's Public Speeches to the Nation: Emotion in Persuasion”, presented at the Conference “Discourse Analysis and Contemporary Social Change”, University of Palermo, 5-7 May 2005.

 

 

 

 

Research activity

 

Participation in conferences/workshops & research abroad

 

·        “Discourse Analysis and Research: Methodological Perspectives”. AIA Workshop for young researchers, Dipartimento di Scienze della Mediazione Linguistica e di Studi  Interculturali, Sesto San Giovanni, Milan, 17-18 june, 2014.

 

 

·      “Identifying, analysing and evaluating metaphor in public discourse” Professor Gerard Steen – Seminar, 29-31 gennaio,  2014, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali,  Rende (CS), Università della Calabria.

 

·        CLAVIER 2013: “Discourse in and through the Media. Recontextualizing and reconceptualizing expert discourse”. Modena, 6-8 novembre, 2013.

 

·        “Has the image killed the imagination?”  Professor Ben O'Loughlin, Department of Politics and International Relations – Inaugural Lecture, Windsor Building Auditorium, Royal Halloway, University of London, 21 novembre, 2013.

 

·        Visiting Scholar presso Department of Linguistics, UCBerkeley, Sponsor Professor George Lakoff, aprile 2012 (6-21).

 

·        CLAVIER 2011: “Tracking Language Change in Specialised and Professional Genres”. Modena, 24-26 novembre, 2011.

 

Participation in National/International research groups & projects:

 

Medical Humanities (Unibo) member of the scientific committee.

 

ParliamoneOra (Unibo) member.

 

Sponsor for the Visiting Scholar Prof. Michael Burke (University of Utrecht) at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Bologna – April and May, 2022.

 

Sponsor for the Visiting Fellowship of Prof. Ben O’Loughlin at the Institute of Advanced Studies (University of Bologna), accepted following selection Repertorio n. 1100/2015, Prot n. 79948 del 05/10/2015 – from 15 September to 15 December, 2016.

 

AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) member.

 

CeSLiC (Centro di Studi Linguistico-Culturali, Ricerca - Prassi – Formazione),  directed by  Donna Rose Miller. http://www.lingue.unibo.it/DLLSM/Ricerca/Centri/ceslic/default.htm

 

Corpus Linguistics Sibol Group, founded by the Universities of Bologna, Siena, and Porthmouth, and coordinated by Alan Partington http://www3.lingue.unibo.it/blog/clb/?page_id=4

 

Corpus and Language Variation in English Research group (CLAVIER), founded by the Universities of Bergamo, Firenze, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Roma La Sapienza and Siena, and currently based in Modena: http://www.clavier.unimore.it/site/home.html

 

National research project PRIN 2008-2010, coordinated by Marina Bondi, on “Discourse Identities and Sense of Space: from Key-words to phraseology” (role: Lecturer; research units: Modena, Florence, Rome, Bergamo, Naples).

 

International Cognitive Linguistics research group on “Conceptualizing women: A cross-cultural perspective” ( International Cognitive Linguistics Conference Kracov 15-20 July, 2007 – ICLC2007) directed by Masako Hiraga e Diane Ponterotto .

 

National research project PRIN 2005-2007, coordinated by Marina Bondi, on “Point of view and keywords in persuasive discourse ”, with particular interest for psychiatric and psychoanalytic discourse (role: Ph.D.; research units: Modena, Florence, Siena, Rome, Bergamo).

 

National research project PRIN 2003-2005, coordinated by Marina Bondi, on “Diacronic and diatypic variation in the discourse of business and economics” (role: Ph.D. grant student; research units: Modena, Florence, Rome, Bergamo).

 

 

Scientific Committees:

 

Member of Editorial Team – Lingue e Linguaggi: http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi

Peer reviewing activity for the journals: Lingue e Linguaggi (ESE), Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture (De Gruyter); Media, War & Conflict (SAGE); Iperstoria (Università di Verona); MediAzioni (Università di Bologna); Review of Cognitive Linguistics (John Benjamins).

Publications

 

• Federica Ferrari (2024). “In Search of Conceptual Metaphors Through Text and Beyond”. In Quaderni del CIRM, Vol. 4, ROMA, TAB edizioni, 89 – 111.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2023). “Can metaphors heal (for real)?”. In Quaderni di Semantica 09 (2023), 141-169. Isbn: 978-88-3613-440-3.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2023). “Dalla paura al desiderio: strategie persuasive e creative di senso”. In Complessità pandemica, Lucca: La Vela, 207-233. (isbn: 979-12-80920-18-8).

 

• Federica Ferrari (2023, first published online March 24, 2022). “Media reverberations on the ‘red line’: Syria, metaphor and narrative in news media”. First Published online March 24, in Media, War & Conflict, 16(3), 325-343 (DOI: 10.1177/17506352221078014 ISSN 1750-6352 - 1750-6360). Rivista scientifica – Area 10.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2022). “Metaphor and Persuasion at work with Emotions and Identity in Interaction”. In Quaderni del CIRM, ROMA, TAB edizioni, 117 – 136.

 

• Federica Ferrari, Mariangela Picciuolo & Daniele Bigi (2022). “Improving text comprehension in ESL learners. A multichannel approach”. Accepted 16 December 2020, published online 5 January 2021, printed in Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, Vol. 16, No 1, 82-102. (https://doi.org/10.1080/17501229.2020.1868477 ISSN 1750-1229; 1750-1237). 

 

• Federica Ferrari (2020). “The ‘transformative’ power of ‘integrated metaphor’ in counselling: applying and measuring its implemented potential”. In Dennis Tay (Guest Ed.) “Metaphor in Mental Healthcare”, Special Issue of Metaphor and the Social World, 10:2. Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 292-319. (https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.00008.fer ISSN 2210-4070 | E-ISSN 2210-4097). 
  

 

• Federica Ferrari (2020). “The ‘Transformative’ Power of Metaphor: Assessing its Unexplored Potential at the Crossroads between Static and Dynamic Instances”. In The Language of Crisis – How Metaphor, Metonymy and Frames Construct Crisis Discourse, edited by Mimi Huang and Lise-Lotte Holmgreen. Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 199-229. (ISBN: 9789027204967).

 

• Federica Ferrari (2018). “Emotion and Interaction in “Sustainable” Persuasion”. In Liliana Landolfi (Ed.) Framing Minds: English and Affective Neurosciences. Linguistica e Linguaggi, Vol 39. Napoli: Liguori, 72-80. (ISBN: 978-88-207-6773-0).

 

• Federica Ferrari (2018). Metaphor and Persuasion in Strategic Communication: Sustainable Perspectives. New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-138-73241-4 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-18846-1 (ebk) ISBN: 978-0-367-58424-5 (pbk).

 

• Federica Ferrari and Jane Johnson (2018). “Analisi Metaforica e Stilistica dei Corpora in Prospettiva Contrastive: Idee per Stimolare la Consapevolezza (Inter)Linguistica in Classe.” In Il testo letterario nell'apprendimento linguistico: esperienze a confronto, edited by Barbara Ivancic, Paola Puccini, MariaJosè Rodrigo Mora and Monica Turci, 25–38. Bologna: Centro di Studi Linguistico-Culturali (CeSLiC).

 

• Federica Ferrari and Ben O’Loughlin (2018). “Red Lines and Rush Decisions. Syria, Metaphor and Narrative.” In Doing Politics: Discursivity, Performativity and Mediation in Political Discourse, edited by Michel Kranert and Geraldine Horan. Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 387-408.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2018). “In lack of ‘Will’? Strategic ‘Future-ness’ and Barack Obama’s experiment: From intention negotiation to will creation and political action in Barack Obama’s e-mail campaigning”. In Time & Society, 27(2), 195-222. (DOI: 10.1177/0961463X15596702).
  

 

• Federica Ferrari (2015). “In lack of ‘Will’? Strategic ‘Future-ness’ and Barack Obama’s experiment: From intention negotiation to will creation and political action in Barack Obama’s e-mail campaigning”. In Time & Society, 0(0), 1-28. (DOI: 10.1177/0961463X15596702 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1177%2F0961463X15596702]).

 

• Federica Ferrari (2014). “Il potenziale trasformativo della metafora nel Counseling” In Aspic News 10/2014, 59-75. (ISSN: 2532-4209).

 

• Federica Ferrari (2013). “ At the crossroads between subject and object of research: identity negotiation in the discourse of ‘Psych. doctors'”. In Julia Bamford, Franca Poppi & Davide Mazzi (Eds.) “Space, place and the Discursive Construction of Identity”. Linguistic Insights, Vol. 165. Berne: Peter Lang, 265-293.

 

•  Federica Ferrari (2013). Non solo metafore. (De)costruzione della strategia persuasiva di G. W. Bush Jr. Padova: Libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2012). Translation and Co-Editing of the Italian version of Saunders, J. (Ed.) 2004. “The Communications Challenge: a practical guide to media neutral planning”: Emanuele Gabardi & Federica Ferrari Eds. (2012). La Sfida della Comunicazione. Guida pratica al planning della comunicazione. Milano: Franco Angeli.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2012). “‘Through a woman's eyes' narratives of the nation: gender as and beyond a category of analysis”. In Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 7(03), 243-262.

• Federica Ferrari & Alessandro Pejrano Romero (2012). “Con Stile: Personality and Leadership Styles in Italy's Foreign Policy”. In Giampiero Giacomello & Craig Nation (Eds.). Italy's Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: The New Assertiveness of an Aspiring Middle Power. IDAHO FALLS: Lexington Books, 93-111.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2011). “Bush versu s Blair: Keywords Heading the Nation”. In Samuel Gyasi Obeng (Ed). Issues in Political Discourse Analysis. New York: Nova Publishers Inc., 149-176.

• Federica Ferrari (2010). “Gender and Identification in Political Discourse: the (American) Woman: as and beyond a category for analysis”, in Political Linguistics, I (31), 39-54.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2009). “BOX 3 – ‘SECURITIZATION'. In Giampiero Giacomello & Gianmarco Bialetti (Eds.). Manuale di Studi Strategici. Vita e Pensiero, XXXV-XXXVII.

 

• Fabrizio Coticchia & Federica Ferrari (2009). “Security, Old Issues, New Frames: Securitization and Human Security”. In Giampiero Giacomello & Craig Nation (Eds.) Security in the West, Vita e Pensiero, 239-270.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2009). “Image Management in Calls to Arms”. In Gian Luigi De Rosa & Antonella De Laurentiis (Eds.). Lingue Policentriche a confronto: quando la periferia diventa centro. Polimetrica, 175-190.

 

• Giampiero Giacomello, Federica Ferrari & Alessandro Amadori (2009). “With Friends Like These: Foreign Policy as a Personal Relationship”. In Contemporary Politics, 15(2): 247-264.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2009). “‘L'efficacia del discorso di Ronald Reagan: una questione di ‘montaggio'”. In Comunicazione Politica, Volume 2, 229-252.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2009). “Arguing for Love”, in G. Gobber, M. C. Gatti, S. Cigata, S. Cantarini, S. Gilardoni (Eds.) L'analisi linguistica e letteraria. XIV (2008) Special Issue: Word Meaning in Argumentative Dialogue, 647-659.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2008). “Book Review: Vague Language Explored”. In Language Awareness 17(4), 352-355.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2008). “Bush versus Blair: Keywords Heading the Nation”. In Issues in Political Discourse Analysis, Vol 2, Issue 1, 1-28.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2007). “Metaphor at Work in the Analysis of Political Discourse: Investigating a ‘Preventive War' Persuasion Strategy”. In Discourse and Society, Vol 18 (5), 603-625.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2007). “G. W. Bush's Public Speeches to the Nation: Exploiting Emotion in Persuasion”. In Norman Fairclough, Giuseppina Cortese & Patrizia Ardizzone Eds. “Discourse Analysis and Contemporary Social Change”. Linguistic Insights, Vol 54. Peter Lang, 381-404.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2006). Doctoral Dissertation: “Metaphor at work: la strategia persuasiva di G. W. Bush Jr.”  deposited according to law at the University Library in Florence and Rome.

 

• Federica Ferrari (2005). “Cinema politico – Recensioni. Vendere la guerra in Iraq: Slasher”. In Comunicazione Politica, Vol. VI, n. 2, Autumn 2005, 327-330.

 

• Also to be mentioned is the collaboration with the Journalist Corrado Augias in Terra, published by Cassa di Risparmio di Vignola, 2007.

 

In press & work-in-progress

 

• Federica Ferrari (work-in-progress). “The voice of the virus or the virus’s shadow? A psycho-metaphorical survey in Italy”. Proposed for publication.

 

• Federica Ferrari (in press). “Slasher: politica o pubblicità?”. In Guido Levi & Marco Cipollini (Eds.) Maschere e pugnali. Cinema, storia e propaganda da Cuba all’Iraq. Falsopiano (Alessandria), forthcoming.