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Marina Manfredi

Associate Professor

Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Academic discipline: L-LIN/12 Language and Translation - English

Research

Keywords: Translation Studies Systemic Functional Linguistics English Language Varieties

Translation Studies, in particular:

  • Theory of Translation (especially related to linguistic-cultural approaches but also in a cross-disciplinary perspective);
  • Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Translation;
  • Translation Teaching: Theory and Practice, focussing on a variety of text types, namely specialized (especially in the field of Human Sciences), popularized, tourist (guidebooks), literary (mainly postcolonial and for children);
  • Theory and Practice of Postcolonial Translation;
  • Media Translation, of popular science and popular business/economics for press magazines, and for the web;
  • Audiovisual translation, especially of multiethnic sitcoms for teenagers;
  • Metaphor Translation.

 

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)

English Language Varieties, in particular Indian English.

Language and Literature (mainly colonial and postcolonial, in particular Indian English Literature).