Margarita Borreguero
Associate Professor of Italian Linguistics. Italian Studies Department. UCM
Graduate in Spanish and Italian Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her PhD on the emergence and evolution of German Text Linguistics was supervised by one of the fathers of this linguistic discipline, Prof. János S. Petöfi (Macerata University, Italy). Her research has been developed in the field of Text Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, with particular attention to information structure, discourse markers (from a functional, contrastive and acquisitional point of view), anaphoric relations, textual tipology, history of text linguistics and critical analysis of discourse. She is the cooordinator of the A.Ma.Dis Group since 2009.
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Pura Guil
Associate Professor of Italian Linguistics. Italian Studies Department. UCM
PhD in Romance Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid. Associate Professor of the Italian Studies Department at the same University. Her research is focused on three main areas: Text Linguistics, Pragmatics and crosslinguistic studies on Italian and Spanish. She has been the coordinator of the A.Ma.Dis group until her retirement in 2009.
Paloma Pernas
Associate Professor of Italian Language. Spanish National Language Schools.
PhD in Spanish Philology; She has carried out her teaching activity at the University of Padua, Complutense University of Madrid and the Spanish National Language Schools. Her main interests are Lexicography (DRAE, Great Dictionary of Spanish Language by Zanichelli), Pragmatics and Second Language Acquisition and Didactics.
Eugenio Gillani
Associate Professor of Italian Language. Spanish National Language Schools.
Teacher of Italian language at the Spanish National Language School since 1998, he is in charge of a lectureship at Complutense University of Madrid. His main fields of research are the teaching and assessment of Italian and Spanish as second languages, Acquisitional linguistic of L2 Italian and the non-verbal communication. He has taken part in all the research projects of the A.Ma.Dis group.
Collaborators
Concetta Casola
Graduated in Communication Sciences at the Bologna University
In her predoctoral research (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados) she dealt with methodological issues in the transcription of an oral corpus. Collaborator Student of the Department of Italian Studies at UCM (2007-2009). She was in charge of the corpus transcription in the research project Discourse markers and interactional construction of conversation in L2 Italian. Member of the local committee for the International Conference on Discourse Markers in Romance languages: a contrastive approach (Madrid, 2010).
Marianna Di Stefano
Italian teacher in secondary school
Graduated in Italian Language and Literature at the University of Palermo (2010). Her M.A. thesis was focused on the acquisition of Italian by French students based on her experience as Italian lecturer in France (2008-2009) thanks to a MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research ) grant. In 2011 University of Palermo awarded her with a research grant to collaborate with the A.Ma.Dis group on the prosodic analysis of discourse markers and she received his PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid (co-direction with the University of Naples “L’orientale”) on the topic "Prosody and discourse markers: Acquisitional problems in Italian L2".
Garazi Olaziregi
Technical Engineer in computer management. Graduated in Linguistics at the University Complutense of Madrid
Technical Engineer in Management Informatics at the Carlos III University of Madrid (2008) and Graduated in Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid (2010), with an specialisation in Applied Linguistics to Language Teaching. She collaborated with the A.Ma.Dis Group in the planning and implementation of the database containing all the information relative to the discourse markers of the corpus.
Ilaria Bada
BA in Philosophy and Philology
BA in Philosophy and Philology at the University of Turn and MA at the University of Turin and Berlin. For the last two years she has worked as a translator and Italian teacher in different school of languages in Barcelona.