Girolamo Tessuto is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the Department of Law of the Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli (Italy), where he is the Director of the Centre for Research in Language and Law (CRILL) established by the English Language Chair within the Law Department, and is delegated by the Rector for International and Mobility Affairs. He also teaches in the Department of Law, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, and the Department of Medicine, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli. His research interests in applied linguistics include text and (critical) discourse analysis, genre analysis of academic, professional and institutional discourses in legal contexts, pragmatics, legal translation, EAP and ESP theories and applications, combining qualitative and quantitative analytical as well as corpus-linguistics approaches. Besides several publications on legal discourse and genre appearing as research papers, book chapters, conference papers and co-edited works, he has recently published a research monograph “Investigating English Legal Genres in Academic and Professional Contexts” (2012), later appearing as a book review in FACHSPRACHE International Journal of Specialized Communication (Issue 3-4, 2014), and co-edited with Vijay K. Bhatia, Giuliana Garzone, Rita Salvi and Christopher Williams two academic volumes – “Language and Law in Academic and Professional Settings: Analyses and Applications” (2014) and “Language and Law in Professional Discourse: Issues and Perspectives” (2014). He has reviewed the volume “The Ashgate Handbook of Legal Translation” with Dennis Kurzon, Jean-Claude Gémar, Susan Šarevi? and Lawrence M. Solan. He is Editorial Board member of international linguistic journals and chief editor of the Legal Discourse and Communication international series, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (formerly Explorations in Language and Law, Novalogos).
A full list of his publications is available here.
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