Author: Maria Cristina Nisco Giuseppe Balirano

Giuseppe Balirano has a PhD in English Linguistics, and is a tenured Senior Lecturer at the University of Naples L”Orientale. His current research and publications focus mainly on language, identity, and multimodality, varieties of English and humour. He is the founder of a research consortium, I-LanD, which investigates identity, language and diversity. His principal publications include Language, Theory and Society (co-edited with M. C. Nisco, 2015); Variation and Varieties in Contexts of English (co-edited with J. Bamford and J. Vincent, 2012); and Indian English on TV (2008). Maria Cristina Nisco has a PhD in English Linguistics, and is a Research Fellow at the University of Naples L”Orientale. Her current research areas include the language of the press, media studies, and corpus-based discourse analysis, as reflected in her book Framing Agency in the 2011 UK Riots: A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis of British Newspapers (2015). She has also researched and published on varieties of English, having authored The Routes of English: (Un)Mapping the Language (2010), and translation as intercultural communication.