Editorial

Author Biographies

• Adriana Mendes Porcellato, Universidade Federal da Bahia

  She holds a PhD in Italian Language, Literature and Culture from Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil) and Università La Sapienza (Italy). In her studies, she has investigated the role of pragmatics and culture in foreign language teaching, with a special focus on the analysis and development of pedagogical material. Currently, she works as a temporary lecturer of Italian at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA).

• Elisabetta Santoro, Universidade de São Paulo

  She has a degree in Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures at Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy (German / English) and in Translation at Ruprecht-Karls Universität de Heidelberg, Germany (German / Italian / Portuguese). Master and PhD were completed at the University of São Paulo (USP), where she has been a professor in ​​Italian Language and Literature since 2003. Her main research interests are: second language acquisition, learning and teaching of Italian L2, pragmatics, discursive semiotics and relations between Italy and Brazil. On these topics, she published articles and essays. She is a president of the Brazilian Association of Teachers of Italian (ABPI) and member of the board of the corresponding international association (AIPI). She is also a member of different scientific associations of the area. She coordinates the research groups “(Inter)linguistic, cross-cultural and intercultural Pragmatics” (GPP) and “Language, Identity and Memory: Italian of the Italians of Brazil” (GLIM) and is researcher at LEER (Laboratory of Studies on Ethnicity, Racism and Discrimination at the University of São Paulo).