I was born on April 20th ,
1952, in Padua.
In 1976 I graduated in Philosophy with a thesis in
Psycholinguistics about "A research on new topics for Linguistic Education. The
Speaker’s Judgments: Acceptability" (with Domenico Parisi).
Since 1977 I have worked first at the Linguistic
Institute, then at the Department of Education of Roma Tre University. Since 2001 I have
been an Associate Professor in General Psychology and in Psychology of Communication, at
the Faculty of Education of Roma Tre.
I have worked in national Researches on "Multimodality
of Communication" and on "The language of emotions", both
coordinated by P.E.Ricci Bitti, and in researches on the construction of Embodied Agents:
CNR Project "COMMEDIA", EU MagiCster Project, EU ISLE Project.
I am among the founders of the International Society for
Gesture Studies, a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal "Gesture" and of
the Digital Semiotic Encyclopedia (www.semioticon.com). |
I have worked on topics in psychology,
linguistics, and cognitive science; specifically:
- Linguistic Education, Teaching Italian as a first language (language
comprehension and production, metalinguistic reflection in primary, grammar and high
school);
- Pragmatics and Multimodal communication (Speech acts, interjections,
gestures, gaze, facial expression, music, multimodality);
- Cognitive analysis of communicative phenomena (communication,
non-communication, secrets, deception, irony, rhetorical figures, persuasion, advertising,
political discourse);
- Cognitive analysis of emotions (shame, guilt, humiliation, compassion,
enthusiasm, communication and non-communication of emotion);
- Computer simulation of multimodality (Embodied Agents, Talking Faces).
I have collaborated, or I presently collaborate, with:
Cristiano Castelfranchi,
ISTC - CNR di Roma
Fiorella de Rosis, Dipartimento di
Informatica, Università di Bari
Emanuela Magno Caldognetto,
Sezione di Fonetica e Dialettologia dell'ISTC - CNR di Padova
Maria Miceli , ISTC - CNR di
Roma
Catherine Pelachaud, IUT, Paris 8
Zsòfìa Rùttkay, Centre for Mathematics
and Computer Science di Amsterdam
I like sometimes to discuss issues in multimodal communication with:
Adam Kendon
Massimo
Serenari, TU Berlin
Roland
Posner,TU Berlin
Paul Bouissac, Victoria
University, Toronto
Lluìs Payratò, Universidad de
Barcellona
Juan Pablo Mora,
Universidad de Sevilla.
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