Chiara Preite

1. Within the general framework of studies relating to languages for special purposes, she has devoted a large part of her studies to jurilinguistics, the analysis of legal and judicial discourse and language, and its implementation in “European” and more typically French genres.
2.  The study of the lexicon and monolingual lexicographic production, both general and specialised, taking into account the treatment of rhetorical phenomena (humour, irony and euphemistic attenuation), pragmatics (diatechnical and axiological-valutative marking).
3. The use of legal lexicon and lexicography – paper and electronic – in the conduct of studies of specialised lexicography and legal terminology focusing on aspects such as: semantic definition, treatment of terminological variation and (para)synonyms, antonyms and opposition relations, legal loans and transplants, in particular from English (in the legal and economic fields).
4.  More recently, she has broadened her interests by focusing, on the one hand, on the study of the terminology of renewable energies and “waste” in the legal field and, on the other, more consistently, on the strategies involved in the dissemination of knowledge, especially in the legal and economic fields, through textual genres aimed at the general public, as well as through legal and economic dictionaries for experts and the general public, oriented towards communication.
5. The study of argumentative instances in political-legal and institutional discourses, with a focus on the discursive and enunciative construction of (collective) ethos and (collective) identities.
6. The terminology of nanoscience and nanotechnology, studied from a lexicographic, translational and phraseological point of view.