Elisa Mattiello

Elisa Mattiello holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Pisa, where she currently teaches courses on English Linguistics and ESP for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Her main research fields focus on extra-grammatical morphology and varieties. In these fields, she has published two monographs, Extra-grammatical Morphology in English: Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena (Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2013) and An Introduction to English Slang: A Description of its Morphology, Semantics and Sociology (Monza, Polimetrica, 2008), in addition to various articles which have appeared in national and international journals and volumes. Recently, her research has expanded in the direction of specialised discourse, with the publication of articles on political, legal, and scientific discourse.