University of Bergamo
Local Coordinator (until 31.12.2025)
Full professor
10/ANGL-01 – English and Anglo-American Studies
Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures
University of Bergamo
My research interests include Late Modern English, especially in the Scottish and North American contexts, corpus-assisted discourse analysis, historical pragmatics and historical sociolinguistics. I am also interested in (auto)biographical discourse.
In this project I am investigating the language of well-being in materials concerning leisure and entertainment, especially in relation to promotional and argumentative discourse.
My relevant publications include:
Dossena, Marina
- 2021, From The Magnificent Seven to The Hateful Eight: Labels, Lyrics and (Group) Identity Construction in Western Movie Songs. Token: A Journal of English Linguistics 12: 155-181, DOI: 10.25951/4848.
- 2022, “Gems of Elocution and Humour”: Ideology, Prescription and (self-)educational materials. In Merja Kytö & Lucia Siebers (eds), Earlier North American Englishes. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 183-201, https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g66.08dos
- 2023, “Farewell to the Highlands”: or, How Broadsides Contributed to Early Images of the Scottish Diaspora. In Brownlees, Nicholas (ed.), The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Vol. 1: Beginnings and Consolidation, 1640-1800. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 336-343.
- 2024, Rooted in Myth? Scotland’s Images from Late Modern Times to the Third Millennium. In Elsweiler, Christine (ed.), The Languages of Scotland and Ulster in a Global Context, Past and Present. Selected papers from the 13th triennial Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, Munich 2021. Aberdeen: FRLSU, 351-379.
- Forthcoming a, La narrazione di un’epopea culturale: il caso di Sequoyah (ca. 1776-1843). In Sioli, Marco (a cura di). Creare il passato. I musei storici americani tra memoria e edutainment. Milano: Franco Angeli.
- Forthcoming b, The historical roots of pop culture: From broadside ballads to soundtracks. In Werner, Valentin et al. (eds), Handbook of Language and Popular Culture. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.