Personale docente

Sara Gesuato

Professore associato confermato

ANGL-01/C

Indirizzo: VIA E. VENDRAMINI, 13 - PADOVA . . .

Telefono: 0498279773

E-mail: sara.gesuato@unipd.it

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    Dal 10 marzo 2025 terrò ricevimento il mercoledì nel mio ufficio e online previo appuntamento da concordare inviando un'email alla docente con tre proposte di possibili orari. Starting 10th March 2025, I will be holding office hours on Wednesday by appointment only: email me three possible times for me to choose from

FORMAZIONE
1983-1988 Laurea in lingue e letterature straniere moderne, Università di Padova
1989-90 Anno di studi post-laurea presso Università di California, Berkeley, Dipartimento di linguistica
1992-94 Master in linguistica, Università della California, Berkeley
1994-97 Dottorato di ricerca in linguistica, Università di Padova
2000-2002 Post-dottorato in linguistica, Università di Padova
1995-1998 e 2004 Dottorato di ricerca in linguistica, Università della California, Berkeley

BORSE DI STUDIO
1989-90 Borsa di studio "Education Abroad Program", Università della California
1992-1994 Borsa di studio dell’Università di Padova per corsi di perfezionamento post-laurea all’estero
2000 Vincita assegno di ricerca, Dipartimento di Linguistica, Università di Padova

ATTIVITA’ DIDATTICA
1992-1995 Assistente all’insegnamento, Dipartimento di Linguistica, Università della California, Berkeley
1996-1998 Assistente all’insegnamento, Dipartimento di Italianistica, Università della California, Berkeley
2000-2003 Docente di lingua italiana, Centro Studi, Università della California, Padova
1999, 2000, 2006 Affidamento di “Linguistica: Semantica e lessicologia”, Facoltà di Medicina e chirurgia, Università di Padova
2008-2009 Affidamento di “Linguistica: Pragmatica” Facoltà Di medicina e chirurgia, Università di Padova
2002-2009 Associata di Lingua inglese, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Università di Padova.
2009-2012 Associata di Lingua inglese, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Padova.
dal 2012 Associata di Lingua inglese, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari, Università di Padova
dal 2015: Affidamento di "Pragmatica", Corso di laurea magistrale in linguistica

ALTRO
2014-17: Membro del collegio di dottorato in Scienze linguistiche, filologiche e letterarie
2014: abilitata alla prima fascia

AMBITI DI RICERCA
Pragmatica, linguistica dei corpora, analisi del discorso

Pubblicazioni recenti

2016
“Producing and accepting offers: the co-construction of discourse in goal-oriented interaction”, in J. Granich, I. Kecskes (eds.), 7th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication (INPRA) 2016, 10-12 June 2016, University of Split, Book of Abstracts, Split, University of Split, pp. 64-65
“Responding to gratitude in elicited oral interaction. A taxonomy of communicative options”, in Lingue e Linguaggi, 19, pp. 197-220, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it
“A research-based teaching unit for ESL/EFL students: responses to gratitude”, in K. Bardovi-Harlig, C. Félix-Brasdefer (eds.), Pragmatics & Language Learning, Vol. 14, Honolulu, HI, University of Hawai’i, National Foreign Language Resource Center, pp. 293-322
(with F. Bianchi; eds.), Pragmatic Issues in Specialized Communicative Contexts, Leiden/Boston, Brill, pp. 1-235

2017
“The PhD thesis report: building trust in an emerging genre”, in R. Salvi, J. Turnball (eds.), The Discursive Construal of Trust in the Dynamics of Knowledge Diffusion, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 26-45
“Addressing interpersonal needs in oral interaction: the case of apology responses” in L. Landolfi, E. Federici, F. Cavaliere (eds.) Translational subjects, linguistic encounters: selected papers from the XXVII AIA conference, Vol. II, Napoli: Liguori Editore, pp. 122-133
“Pragmatic perception of communicative acceptability: gut reactions and constructive criticism”, in Liliana Landolfi (ed.) E-Factor: English Education, Empowerment & Emotivation, Series “Linguistica e Linguaggi” vol. 38, Napoli: Liguori Editore, pp. 37-46

2018
“Mixed methods in raising ssociopragmatic awareness: A proposal for combining insights from the teacher's feedback and the interlocutor's point of view”, System, (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2018.03.006)

2019
(with E. Castello) “Pope Francis’s Laudato si’: A corpus study of environmental and religious discourse”, Lingue e Linguaggi, 29: 121-145
“News fractals: linguistic and discursive properties of BBC news alerts”, in Bonsignori, Gloria Cappelli and Elisa Mattiello (eds.) WORLDS OF WORDS: Complexity, Creativity, and Conventionality in English Language, Literature and Culture, Vol. I, Pisa, Pisa University Press, ISBN 9788833392448, pp. 103-114
“Can you Tell a Move When you Encounter One? Identifying Clues to Communicative Functions”, in Patricia Salazar-Campillo and Victória Codina-Espurz (eds.) Investigating the learning of pragmatics across ages and contexts, Series: Utrecht Studies in Language and Linguistics, vol. 34, Leiden/Boston, Brill Rodopi, ISBN 978-90-04-40969-9, pp. 221-257
(with F. Bianchi) “The adaptation of a novel to filmic needs: thematic focus in the subtitles of two filmic versions of Pride and Prejudice, in Textus 2: 93-109
(with R. Coronato, eds.) “The Literature-Linguistics Interface - Bridging the Gap: Between Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Literary Texts”, Umanistica Digitale 6: 1-116
(with E. Castello) “Holding up one’s end of the conversation in spoken English: Lexical backchannels in L2 examination discourse”, International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 5(2): 234–256

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Pragmatica, analisi del discorso e dei generi, discorso accademico, semantica lessicale, linguistica dei corpora, insegnamento dell'inglese come lingua straniera, atti linguistici, tempo e aspetto

presentazione di atti linguistici in grammatiche e manuali per l'insegnamento dell'inglese;

atti linguistici iniziativi e reattivi, orali e scritti

pragmatica variazionista: variazione sociale nell'uso e nella percezione dell'uso della lingua

struttura retorica di generi non letterari

caratterizzazione semantica di termini/espressioni su dati di corpora;

quasi-sinonimi dell'inglese

linguaggio e genere;

analisi linguistica di testi letterari

recupero di informazioni implicite nei testi

la cortesia dei personaggi letterari e filmici

umorismo verbale

linguaggio di generi/registri specifici (p. es. pubblicità, memi)

evitamento linguistico

Ufficio: Polo Beato Pellegrino (via Vendramini, 13), secondo piano, n. 56; tel. 049-8279773
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NEW OFFICE HOURS: Starting March 10, 2025, I will hold office hours on Wednesday (in my office or online) and only by appointment -- to request one, email me, listing three possible times.
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Per i SEMINARI di PRAGMATICA certifico frequenze e approvo relazioni, ma non attribuisco i crediti di 'Altre attività', per cui bisogna contattare i referenti dei corsi di laurea
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Begin your message with “Dear Professor Gesuato,”.

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