Anna Franca Plastina is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Department of Pharmacy and Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria where she is member of the doctoral board for the PhD programme in Translational Medicine and currently responsible for English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in the interdisciplinary research project regarding the EMI Master Degree in Nutritional Science. Her research focus is mainly on specialised discourse in computer-mediated, LSP and multilingual contexts with interests in genre, multimodal, psycholinguistic, and corpus-assisted critical discourse analyses and the impact on ESP pedagogy. She is member of the International Research Centre for Communication in Healthcare (IRCCH), The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (AIA), International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL), Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) and of the Centre of Research in Language and Law (CRILL). She has participated in EU and MIUR projects related to her field of research and was Visiting Professor at the Istanbul Technical University and Marmara University, Turkey (2006; 2007), the China Pharmaceutical University of Nanjing (2011) and at the Institut Agronomique et Veterinaire Hassan II, Rabat, Morocco (2019). She serves as reviewer for several leading international journals and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Teaching English with Technology, Studies in Contrastive Grammar and of the Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics. Her most recent publications include: The discursive dynamics of personal experience narratives and medical advice in 18th-century British consultation letters: The case of Dr. William Cullen (John Benjamins, forthcoming); The Web-mediated Construction of Interdiscursive Truth(s) about the MMR Vaccine: A Defamation Case (co-authored with R. Maglie; Routledge, forthcoming); Case reporting: a historical discourse analysis of the functional uses of if-conditionals in medical-officer-of-health reports, Token (2019); Reframing as a Persuasive Method in Public Speech: Beyond Globalized Biodiversity (John Benjamins, 2018,); Creating Specialised Corpora in English for Medical Purposes: A Study on Learners’ Direct Use (Peter Lang, 2017). She has also authored the monographs: Applied Linguistics and Semantic Web Apps: Cases of Mediated Discursive Practices (LINCOM EUROPA, München 2012) and The Language Teacher Researcher in the L2 Reading Classroom: Challenges and Responses (Aracne, 2007).
A full list of her publications is available here.
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