MARGUTTI Piera

Piera Margutti is professor in Glottologia e Linguistica (10/G1), Department of Studies on Language and Culture - University of Modena e Reggio Emilia where she teaches General Linguistics and Conversation Analysis. She taught courses in Linguistics, Applied linguistics, Second language teaching, Intercultural and Cross-linguistic pragmatics. DPhil at the University of York (UK), with Prof. Paul Drew, with a dissertation in Conversation Analysis on classroom interaction.
Main research interests: the study of social interaction in classroom and medical contexts and in ordinary settings, which she explores using Conversation Analysis.
Major topics:
(i) Classroom interaction: teacher known-answer questions and reproaches, positive evaluations of pupils' answers and correction, students’ answers and interactional competence.
(ii) Medical interaction: communication in oncological nd prosthetic settings, reported speech, repetitional answers, the formats of prescriprions.
(iii) Ordinary settings: intonation of Italian polar questions (inferential questions), word-searches, teasing, identity and spontaneous translation practices in native and non-native speakers; apologies and invitations, also with a cross-linguistic perspective.
She publishes Research on Language and Social Interaction, Linguistics and Education, Language and Education, Discourse Processes, Discourse Studies, Journal of Pragmatics, for which she acts also as reviewer; and she regularly attends to the international conferences of Pragmatics and Conversation Analysis (IPrA e ICCA). Member of ICCA-2018 Scientific Committee. Collaborates with an international network, with colleagues based on the following universities in Italy and abroad: Bologna, Roma Tre, Trento and Bolzano (IT), Loughborough (UK), Helsinki and Jyväskylä (FL), Goteborg (NL), Lyon (FR), Indiana (US) and Leuven (Belgio).
She is PI in funded projects: IES-22 on medical communication and Prin-22 on classroom interaction.