Stefania M. Maci

Stefania Maria Maci (PhD in Applied Linguistics - Lancaster, UK; Linguistics and Philosophy of Language Diploma - University of Ca’ Foscari – Venice; BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures - University of Ca’ Foscari – Venice).
She studied at UCL (UK), and Warwick University (UK).

At the moment, her research is focussed on the analysis of the English language in academic contexts, with particular regard to the analysis of medical English and Identity in National and Professional Contexts. She is carrying out research about:

• Metadiscursive issues, argumentative strategies and metaphorical aspects of medical discourse across genres and cultures

• Tourism discourse

• Framing in discourse

Stefania M. Maci si è laureata in Lingue e Letterature Straniere presso l’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, dove ha conseguito anche il diploma di specializzazione in Linguistica e Filosofia del Linguaggio. Ha perfezionato i propri studi presso UCL – University College of London (UK) – e Warwick University (UK). Ha un PhD in Applied Linguistics conseguito presso il Dipartimento di Linguistics and English Language di Lancaster University (UK).

Attualmente, la sua indagine è concentrata sull’analisi della lingua inglese usata in ambienti accademici, con particolare riguardo all’inglese medico e all’ Identità in contesti Nazionali e Professionali. A questo proposito la sua ricerca riguarda:

• Elementi metadiscorsivi, strategie persuasive e aspetti metaforici del medical English discourse across genres e across culture

• Tourism discourse

• Framing in discourse

Maci, Stefania Maria. (2022) Evidential verbs in the genre of medical posters. A corpus-based analysis. Bern: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-0343-4521-7

Maci, Stefania M. (2022) Framing Narratives of Suffering through Metaphors. In Catenaccio, P;Degano, C; Santulli F. (eds.) The Place of Language: Discourse, Translation, Culture. Essay in honour of Giuliana Garzone. Special issue of Lingue e Linguaggi 52.

Maci, Stefania Maria; Sala, Michele (eds.) (2022). Corpus Linguistics and Translation Tools for Digital Humanities. Research Methods and Applications. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN: 9781350275225

Maci, Stefania Maria; Sala, Michele (2022) Corpus linguistics and translation tools for digital humanities. An introduction. In Maci/Sala (eds) Corpus Linguistics and Translation Tools for Digital Humanities. Research Methods and Applications. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN: 9781350275225, pp.1-16

Maci, Stefania Maria (2022) Data triangulation using Sketch Engine and WMatrix: Ketogenic diet on Twitter. In Maci/Sala (eds) Corpus Linguistics and Translation Tools for Digital Humanities. Research Methods and Applications. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN: 9781350275225, pp. 81-104

Hanganu-Bresch, Cristina; Zerbe, Michael J.; Cutrufello, Gabriel; Maci, Stefania Maria (eds). (2021) The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Communication. London, Routledge. ISBN 9781003043782

D'Angelo, Larissa; Mauraunen, Anna; Maci, Stefania Maria (eds). (2021) Metadiscourse in Digital Communication. London, Palgrave. ISBN:978-3-030-85813-1

Federici, Eleonora /Maci, Stefania M. (eds). (2021) Gender Issues. Translating and Mediating Languages, Cultures and Societies. Bern, Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-0343-4022-9.

Maci, Stefania M. (2021) “Living-with-dying”: the elderly’s language of terminal illness. Working with Older People https://doi.org/10.1108/WWOP-06-2021-0031 (vol. ahead-of-print) ISSN: 1366-3666

Maci, Stefania M. (2021). The narrative of the anti-vax campaign on Twitter. In: Fuster-Márquez, Miguel Santaemilia, José Gregori-Signes, Carmen Rodríguez-Abruneiras, Paula (eds) 2021, Exploring discourse and ideology through corpora. Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 210-234.

Federici, Eleonora /Maci, Stefania M. (2021) Introduction In: Federici, Eleonora /Maci, Stefania M. (eds). Gender Issues. Translating and Mediating Languages, Cultures and Societies. Bern, Peter Lang, pp.9-19. ISBN 978-3-0343-4022-9.

D'Angelo, Larissa; Maci, Stefania Maria (2021). Metadiscourse in Digital Communication: A Short Introduction. In: D'Angelo, Larissa; Mauraunen, Anna; Maci, Stefania Maria (eds). Metadiscourse in Digital Communication. London, Palgrave. ISBN:978-3-030-85813-1, pp. 1-9.

Zerbe, Michael; Cutrufello, Gabriel; Hanganu-Bresch, Cristina; Maci, Stefania Maria (2021) Introduction. In: Hanganu-Bresch, Cristina; Zerbe, Michael J.; Cutrufello, Gabriel; Maci, Stefania Maria (eds). The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Communication. London, Routledge. ISBN 9781003043782, pp. 1-12.

Gotti, Maurizio / Maci, Stefania M. / Sala, Michele (eds). (2020) Scholarly Pathways. Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia. Bern, Peter Lang. ISBN 987-3-0343-3860-8.

Maci, Stefania M.  / Sala, Michele  / Cinzia Spinzi (eds). (2020) Communicating English in Specialised Domains. A Festschrift for Maurizio Gotti. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Maci, Stefania M. / Sala, Michele (2020), Introduction. In Gotti, Maurizio / Maci, Stefania M. / Sala, Michele (eds). Scholarly Pathways. Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia. Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 15-29. ISBN 987-3-0343-3860-8

Maci, Stefania M.  / Sala, Michele  / Cinzia Spinzi (2020). Introduction. In Maci, Stefania M.  / Sala, Michele  / Cinzia Spinzi (eds). Communicating English in Specialised Domains. A Festschrift for Maurizio Gotti. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.1-15

Maci, Stefania M. (2020) English Tourism Discourse. Insights into the professional, promotional and digital language of tourism. Milan: Hoepli. ISBN 9788820399429.

Spinzi, Cinzia G. / Maci, Stefania M. 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.

Maci, Stefania M. (2019) Knowledge dissemination and evidentiality in the genre of posters. Anatomy of a condensed medical discourse. Lingue e Linguaggi 29: 67-92. DOI 10.1285/i22390359v29p67 

Maci, Stefania M. (2019) “The church was built on a basilica plan.” Translating and mistranslating Italian churches’ panels. Altre Modernità 21: 140-157. ISSN ISSN 2035-7680. 

Maci, Stefania M.  / Sala, Michele  / Godnič Vičič, Šarolta (eds). (2018). The language of tourism. Special issue of Scripta Manent. 12/1.  

Maci, Stefania M.  / Sala, Michele  / Godniè Vičič, Šarolta. (2018). The language of tourism: An introduction to the topical issue. Special issue of Scripta Manent. 12/1: 1-5. 

Gotti, Maurizio / Maci, Stefania M. / Sala, Michele (eds) (2017). Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being. Representing the Voices of Tourism, Bern, Peter Lang. ISBN 978-30-34330-33-6 

Maci, Stefania M. (2017). Meaning-making in Web 2.0 Tourism Discourse. In Gotti, Maurizio / Maci, Stefania M. / Sala, Michele (eds) Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being. Representing the Voices of Tourism, Bern, Peter Lang. pp: 131-153. SBN 978-30-34330-33-6. 

Maci, Stefania M. / Sala, Michele (2017).  Introduction. In Gotti, Maurizio / Maci, Stefania M. / Sala, Michele (eds) Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being. Representing the Voices of Tourism, Bern, Peter Lang. pp: 9-21. ISBN 978-30-34330-33-6.

Maci, Stefania M. (2016). Perception or Perspective? Adjusting the representation of Italy and the UK for the tourist: the Made in Italy and This is Great Britain campaigns. Cultus, 9/1: 23-48. ISSN:2035-3111.

Maci, Stefania M. 2016. A framework for medical poster multimodal analysis: a pilot study. In Daniele, Franca & Garzone, Giuliana (eds),  Communicating Science, Popularizing Science, Franco Angeli Editore. ISBN 9788820412425 

Gotti, Maurizio / Maci, Stefania M. / Sala, Michele (eds) (2015). Insights into Medical Communication, Bern, Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-0343-1694-1 

Gotti, Maurizio / Maci, Stefania M. / Sala Michele (eds), (2015). The Language of Medicine: Science, Practice and Academia. Bergamo, CELSB. ISBN 978-88-89804-24-7 

Maci, Stefania M. (2015). ‘For Your Eyes Only: How Museum Walltexts Communicate East and West. The Case of the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation’. Languages Cultures Mediation 2/1: 135-155. ISSN 2421-0293 

Maci, Stefania M. (2015). ‘“If MSM are frequent testers there are more opportunities to test them”: conditionals in medical posters – a corpus-based approach’. In Thompson, Paul / Diani, Giuliana (eds) English for Academic Purposes. Approaches and Implications. Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 127-150. ISBN 978-1-4438-7439-7 

Maci, Stefania  M. / Sala, Michele / Gotti, Maurizio. (2015). ‘Introduction’. In Gotti, Maurizio / Maci, Stefania M. / Sala, Michele (eds) Insights into Medical Communication Bern, Peter Lang: 9-24. ISBN 978-3-0343-1694-1 

Maci, Stefania M. (2015). ‘Health slips as the financial crisis grips: Tension and Variation in medical discourse’. In Gotti, Maurizio / Maci, Stefania M. / Sala, Michele (eds) Insights into Medical Communication Bern, Peter Lang: 369-390. 978-3-0343-1694-1. 

Sala, Michele / Maci, Stefania M. / Gotti, Maurizio. (2015). ‘Introduction’. In Gotti, Maurizio / Sala Michele / Maci, Stefania (eds), The Language of Medicine: Science, Practice and Academia. Bergamo, CELSB: 11-22. ISBN 978-88-89804-24-7 

Maci, Stefania M. (2015). “It is amply clear that there is no convincing evidence to infer that”. Evidentiality in Indian Arbitral awards. In Bhatia, Vijay K. / Gotti, Maurizio (eds). Arbitration Discourse in Asia, 275-304. ISBN 978-3-0343-2032-0 

Maci, Stefania M. (2015). “These data support the provocative view that…”: Evaluation in medical academic posters. In Bondi, Marina / Cacchiani, Silvia / Mazzi, Davide (eds), Discourse In and Through the Media. Recontextualizing and Reconceptualizing Expert Discourse. Cambridge upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing:119-145. 978-1-4438-8254-5 

Maci, Stefania M. (2014). ‘“What Does He Think This Is? The Court of Human Rights or the United Nations?”. (Plain) Language in the Written Memories of Arbitral Proceedings: A Cross-Cultural Case Study’. European Journal of Law Reform 16/3: 572-596. ISSN 1387‐2370. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2014). ‘Investigating Variation in Medical Poster Abstracts’. In Evangelisti Allori, Paola / Bateman, John / Bhatia, Vijay K. (eds). Evolution in Genre. Emergence, Variation, Multimodality. Bern, Peter Lang: 67-94. ISBN 978-3-0343-1533-3 

Maci, Stefania M. (2014). ‘Institutional popularization of medical knowledge: the case of pandemic influenza A (H1N1)’. In G. Caliendo & G. Bongo (eds). The Language of Popularization: Theoretical and Descriptive Models/Die Sprache der Popularisierung;teotetische und deskriptive Modelle. Sprache in Kommunikation und Medien Series. Bern, Peter Lang: 165-190. ISBN 9783034313742. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2014). ‘The popularisation of scientific discourse for the Academia from a diachronic perspective: the case of Nobel lectures’.  In Chiavetta E. & Sciarrino S. (eds) Perspectives on the Popularisation of Natural Sciences in a Diachronic Overview. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 97-118. ISBN: 9781443854986

Maci, Stefania M. (2013). Tourism Discourse: Professional, Promotional and Digital voices. Genova: ECIG ISBN 9788875442880. 

Maci, Stefania M. / Sala, Michele (eds) (2012). Genre Variation in Academic Communication. Emerging Disciplinary Trends. Bergamo: CELSB. ISBN 9788889804223 

Maci, Stefania M. / Sala, Michele (eds.) (2012). ‘Introduction’.  In Maci, Stefania / Sala, Michele (eds.) 2012. Genre Variation in Academic Communication. Emerging Disciplinary Trends. Bergamo, CELSB, 9-18. ISBN 9788889804223.)

Maci, Stefania M. (2012). ‘Abstracts of poster presentations: A diachronic analysis (1980-2010)’. Papers from the Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching (LAEL PG) 6, 93-113. ISSN 1756123X. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2012). ‘Click Here, Book Now! Discursive Strategies of Tourism on the Web’. Textus. English Studies in Italy (Fodde & Van Den Abbeele eds) 2012/1, 137-156. ISBN 9788843064021. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2012). ‘Tourism as a specialised discourse: The case of normative guidelines in the European Union’. Token: A Journal of English Linguistics 1, 37-58. ISSN 22995900. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2012). ‘Glocal Features of In-flight Magazines: when Local Becomes Global. An Explorative Study’. Confini mobili: lingua e cultura nel discorso del turismo, 196-212. ISSN 20357680. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2012).  ‘Arbitration in action: the display of arbitrators' neutrality in witness hearings’. In Bhatia, Vijay / Candlin, Christopher / Gotti, Maurizio (eds) Discourse and Practice in International Commercial Arbitration Issues, Challenges and Prospects. London: Ashgate, 225-238. ISBN 9781409432319. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2012). ‘The Discussion Section of Medical Research Articles: A Cross Cultural Perspective’. In Gotti, Maurizio (ed.) Academic Identity Traits. Bern: Peter Lang, 95-119. ISBN 9783034311410. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2012). ‘Fast-Track Publications: The Genre of Medical Research letters’. In Gotti, Maurizio (ed.) Academic Identity Traits. Bern: Peter Lang, 243-262. ISBN 9783034311410. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2012). ‘The Genre of Medical Conference Posters’. In Gotti, Maurizio (ed.) Academic Identity Traits. Bern: Peter Lang, 283-301. ISBN 9783034311410. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2012). ‘Poster Makers Should Think as Much about Show Business as Science. The Case of Medical Posters in a Diachronic Perspective’. In Garzone, Giuliana / Catenaccio, Paola / Degano, Chiara (eds) Genre Change in the Contemporary World. Bern: Peter Lang, 77-98. ISBN 9783034312141. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2012). ‘Medical discourse from a quantitative perspective. The case of poster abstracts’. In Dalziel, Fiona / Gesuato, Sara / Musacchio, Maria Teresa (eds) A lifetime of English studies. Padova: Il Poligrafo, 217-229. ISBN 9788871157672. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2011). ‘Genre variation in medical discourse: the case of medical posters’. In Sarangi, Srikant / Polese, Vanda / Caliendo, Giuditta (eds) Genre(s) on the Move. Hybridization and Discourse Change in Specialized Communication. Napoli: ESI, 169-190. ISBN 9788849522297. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2011). ‘Arbitration in Italy. Litigation Procedures in Arbitral Practice’. In Bhatia, Vijay / Evangelisti Allori, Paola (eds) Discourse Identity in the Professions. Legal, Corporate and Institutional Citizenship. Bern: Peter Lang, 213-137. ISBN 9783034310796

Maci, Stefania M. (2010). The Language of Tourism. Bergamo: CELSB . ISBN 978-88-89804-19-3 

Maci, Stefania M. (2010). ‘The Modus Operandi of Litigation in Arbitration.’ In Bhatia, Vijay / Candlin, Christopher / Gotti, Maurizio (eds) The Discourses of Dispute Resolution. Bern: Peter Lang, 69-83. ISBN 978-3-0343-0476-4. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2010). ‘The Argumentative Structure in American and Italian Medical Research Articles.’ In Garzone, Giuliana / Archibald, James (eds) Discourse and Identity in Specialized Communication. Bern, Peter Lang, 343-363. ISBN 978-3-0343-0494-8 

Maci, Stefania M. (2009). ‘Litigation Procedures in Arbitral Practice: A case of Arbitral Litigation?’. In Sarcevic, Susan (ed.). Legal Language in Action: Translation, Terminology, Drafting and Procedural Issues. Zagreb: Kakladini zadov Globus, 393-410. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2009). ‘The Migration of Scientific Knowledge into Alternative Forms of Research Articles: The Case of Medical Research Letters’.  In Torretta, Domenico / Dossena, Marina / Sportelli, Annamaria (eds) Forms of Migration. Migration of Forms. Proceedings of the 23rd AIA Conference. Language Studies. Bari: Progedit, 479-495. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2008). ‘The Research Letter: an Emerging Medical Genre’. In Di Martino, Gabriella / Polese, Vanda / Solly, Martin (eds)  Identity and Culture in English Domain-specific Discourse. Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 367-390. 

Giannoni, Davide S. / Maci, Stefania M. (eds) (2008). Identity Traits in English Academic Discourse (Special issue of Linguistica e Filologia 27). Includes Introduction, 9-17. ISSN 1594-6517. 

Maci, Stefania M. (2007). ‘Virtual Touring: the Web-language of Tourism’. Linguistica e Filologia 25, 41-65. ISSN 1594-6517.