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Rebecca Gatti, Columnist 18/03/2023 Rebecca Gatti, Columnist 18/03/2023

What’s App in Italian Linguistics III - General extenders

In her third installment of ‘What’s App in Italian Linguistics’, Rebecca Gatti explores how simple Italian words have changed in meaning when used while texting

Rebecca Gatti, Columnist 07/12/2022 Rebecca Gatti, Columnist 07/12/2022

What’s App in Italian Linguistics II - How do we speak when we text?

In her second column, Rebecca Gatti explores specific discourse markers in Italian, demonstrating how they can be used within online communication to mean many different things.

Rebecca Gatti, Columnist 09/11/2022 Rebecca Gatti, Columnist 09/11/2022

What’s App in Italian Linguistics I - From WhatsApp to Linguistic Research

In her first column of term, Rebecca Gatti introduces a new linguistics project she has helped to work on - a database of Italian words taken from WhatsApp, giving an insight into the way that language is used online

Camilla Allibone 17/04/2022 Camilla Allibone 17/04/2022

Laura Battiferra: creating a new female image

With a welcome deviation from traditional Renaissance focus, Camilla Allibone celebrates Battiferra’s transcendence. In terms of the female image, she analyses her portrait as literal art and as a symbolical vector.

Camilla Allibone 10/03/2022 Camilla Allibone 10/03/2022

Female Renaissance ALL’ITALIANA

With her first article as columnist, Camilla Allibone proposes a rediscovery of the celebrated Italian Renaissance through the lens of the female experience.

Editor Cambridge Language Collective 05/10/2020 Editor Cambridge Language Collective 05/10/2020