Cinzia Spinzi

Cinzia Spinzi is Associate Professor at the University of Bergamo. She holds a PhD in English for Specific Purposes from the University of Napoli, Federico II and a Master’s in Translation Studies from the University of Birmingham. 

Her research interests include language/cultural mediation and Corpus Linguistics applied to the study of ideology and metaphors in specialised communication, with a particular focus on political, diplomatic and tourism discourses.

Cinzia Spinzi ha conseguito il Dottorato in Inglese per Scopi Speciali presso l’Università di Napoli Federico II e un Master in Translation Studies presso l’Università di Birmingham. Ha ottenuto una Research fellowship presso la City London University.

I suoi ambiti di ricerca riguardano lo studio dell’ideologia e della metafora nei linguaggi specifici (Linguaggio politico, diplomatico e turistico) attraverso l'applicazione della linguistica dei corpora, la traduzione e la mediazione cross-culturale.

Spinzi, Cinzia G. / Maci, Stefania M. 2020. From #traveltomorrow to #MagicalKenya: a sociosemiotic analysis of a tourism narrative response to Covid-19. In Burini, Federica (ed). Tourism facing a pandemic: from crisis to recovery. Bergamo: University of Bergamo Press, pp 139: 154. ISBN: 978-88-97253-04-4.

Spinzi,  C. 2019. “Training the future mediators”. Cultus 11. 

Spinzi,  C. 2019 “The Wheres, Whats and Whys of Transcreation”, in Translation or Transcreation? Discourses, Texts and Visuals. In Cinzia Spinzi, Alessandra Rizzo, Marianna Zummo (Eds.). Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 1-14. 

Spinzi, C. / Agorni, M (eds.) 2019. “Mind the gap in tourism discourse. Traduzione, Mediazione, Inclusione”. Altre Modernità, Università di Milano. 

Spinzi, C. 2017, “Framing issues in the language of diplomacy. A quantitative and qualitative approach”. Iperstoria, Volume X. University of Verona. http://www.iperstoria.it/joomla/numeri/160-indice-numero-x-fall-2017  

Spinzi, C. 2017 “Using Corpus Linguistics as a research and training tool for Public Service Interpreting (PSI) and legal interpreters”. In Bendazzoli, C. (Ed.) Corpus-based dialogue interpreting studies, The Interpreter’s Newsletter, Vol. 22. University of Trieste. https://www.openstarts.units.it/handle/10077/20733 

Spinzi, C. / Manca, E. 2016, “Reading figurative images in the political discourse of the British press” con Manca, E. TEXTUS, pp. 241-256. 

Spinzi, C. 2016, Discursive Strategies in the Language of Foreign Policy. The Semantics and the Appraisal of Security. Bari: Wip Edizioni.

Spinzi, C. 2016, “The Man of Action vs the Blunders of Politicians. Rappresentazioni ideologiche e identitarie nella Stampa Fascista dell'Inghilterra degli anni Trenta”. In: Prestigiacomo C., (ed.) Identità, totalitarismi e stampa. Ricodifica linguistico-culturale dei media di regime. Palermo: UnipaPress pp. 71-89, ISBN: 978-88-99934-11-8  

Spinzi, C. 2016, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Metaphors of inclusion and exclusion in the British and Italian Fascist discourse of the 1930s”. Lingue e Linguaggi 19, pp. 287-303, DOI 10.1285/i22390359v19p287 

Spinzi, C. 2016, “Analysing American Public Diplomacy: The case of Brand USA. When Tourism becomes an ideological tool”. In Garzone, G. Heaney, D. and G. Riboni (eds.), Language for Specific Purposes: Research and Translation across Cultures and Media. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 326-348. 

Spinzi, C. / Venuti, M. 2015. “A corpus-based discourse analysis of security in White House Press Briefings” con Venuti, M. In Marta Degani, Paolo Frassi, Maria Ivana Lorenzetti (eds.), The Languages of Politics and La politique et ses langages. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Vol. 2, pp. 95-118. 

Spinzi, C. 2015, “La Comunicazione Giuridica”. In Rudvin, M. e C., Spinzi (eds) L’Interprete Giuridico. Profilo Professionale e metodologie di lavoro. Roma: Carocci, pp. 43-72. 

Spinzi, C. 2015, “L’egemonia anglosassone nella rivista Legioni e Falangi. Costruzioni ideologiche e identitarie”. In Sinatra, C. (ed) Stampa e Regimi. Bern: Peter Lang, 201-224. 

Spinzi, C. / Venuti, M. 2014, “Tracking the Change in an Institutional Genre: A Diachronic Corpus-based Study of White House Press Briefings”, (eds. Franca Poppi and Winnie Cheng), The Three Waves of Globalization: Winds of Change in Professional, Institutional and Academic Genres, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 181-196. (DIA)

Spinzi, C. Rudvin, M. 2014 “Negotiating the terminological borders of ‘Language Mediation’ in English and Italian. A discussion on the repercussions of terminology on the practice, self-perception and role of language mediators in Italy”, con Rudvin, Mette, in LCM Garzone, Giuliana (ed.), Università di Milano, LEDonline. (PED)

Spinzi, C. / Venuti, M. / De Candia, S. 2014, "'I don't know the answer to that question': A Corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis of White House Press Briefings, in Cadaad Journal, Volume 7 issue 1, 66-81. http://cadaad.net/2013_volume_7_issue_1 

Spinzi, C. 2013, “Treading lightly on the earth: framing metaphorical meanings in the language of ecotourism”. In Bianchi, F. e Manca, E. (eds.) Turismo e Promozione Turistica nel Mondo: una prospettiva linguistica e socio-culturale – Università del Salento, pp. 81-93. Disponibile sul sito: http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/tourismandtourist/issue/current 

Spinzi, C.  2012, "The eco-tourist in Canadian and Italian National Parks", con Monica Turci, Atti del Convegno AIA, L'Aquila, settembre 2011, pp. 129-138. 

Spinzi, C. 2012, “The voices of the Foreign Ministers: a corpus study of Ideological Positioning in the Language of Diplomacy”, Atti del Convegno AIA, L'Aquila, settembre 2011, pp. 212-220. 

Spinzi, C. / Riccio, G. 2011, A diachronic corpus-based analysis of epistemic adverbials in the White House press briefings” in colloborazione con Giulia Riccio, in G. Caliendo, V. Polese, Sarangi, S. (eds) Genre(s) on the Move. Hybridization and Discourse Change in Specialized Communication. Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane (Progetto PRIN Università di Napoli Federico II), pp. 45-65. 

Spinzi, C. 2011, “Behind the institutional identity: shifting from we-clusters to I-clusters in diplomatic discourse”, in Challenges for the 21st Century: Dilemmas, Ambiguities, Directions. Di Martino, G., Lombardo, L., Nuccorini, S. (eds), Proceedings AIA 2009, Edizioni Q di Roma, pp. 303-310. 

Spinzi, C. 2010, “‘How this holiday makes a difference’”: The language of environment and the environment of nature in a cross-cultural study of ecotourism. Quaderni Ceslic, Miller, Donna (General Editor) Università di Bologna.  http://amsacta.cib.unibo.it/view/series/Quaderni_del_CeSLiC._Occasional_papers.html 

Spinzi, C. / Milizia, D.  2010, “The terroridiom principle between spoken and written discourse”, in collaborazione con Denise Milizia, in Patterns, Meaningful units and specialised discourses, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Edizione special, 57-85, 2010. Contributo precedentemente pubblicato nella rivista International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 13: 3 (2008). 

Spinzi, C. / De Candia, S. / Riccio, G. / Venuti, M. 2009, “The Evolution of Institutional Genres in time: The case of the White House press briefings”, (Progetto PRIN Napoli – Federico II) in collaborazione con Cava, A., De Candia, S., Riccio, G. Venuti, M. in online proceedings – Corpus Linguistics, Liverpool 2009, disponibile alla pagina: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/publications/cl2009/ paper n. 387. 

Spinzi, C. 2009, La Comunicazione Specializzata. Un approccio fraseologico al discorso diplomatico britannico (1997-2007). Bari: Wip Edizioni.

Spinzi, C. 2009, Tesi di dottorato depositata presso la Biblioteca dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli – Federico II, “Managing National/International Relations: Ideological and Axiological discursive strategies in the Language of Foreign Policy”. 

Spinzi, C. 2007, “Managing relations: A study of positioning strategies in British International Discourse”, in English for Specific Purposes World Online Journal for Teachers, ISSN 1682-3257, Issue 3 (19) Volume, 7. Pubblicazione online: http://www.esp-world.info/ESP_list.html 

Spinzi, C. 2005. English, Language and Communication. Bari: Wip Edizioni.

Spinzi, C. 2004, Travelling without a trace: a corpus study of the communicative process of ‘eco-speaking’ in ESP Across Cultures, (1), Bari: Graphis, Laterza, pp. 79-92.