Belinda Crawford

Lingua e traduzione - Lingua inglese - Sezione di "Lingue e Culture Straniere" - Facoltà di Economia (L-LIN/12)
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Ricercatore confermato di Lingua e Traduzione - Lingua Inglese (L-LIN/12) presso la Facoltà di Economia. Laureatasi alla Florida State University (BEd magna cum laude), ha conseguito il Master of Education (International Teaching) presso Framingham State College in Massachusetts. Ha conseguito il Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (DEA) e successivamente il PhD (cum laude) in Linguistica Applicata presso Universitat Jaume I, Departamento de Estudios Ingleses, Castellón de la Plana, Spagna.
Dal 2001 al 2003 ha collaborato con Columbia University (New York, NY) in veste di online business writing tutor. Nel 2002 è stata beneficiaria del Morley Scholarship for Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching presso English Language Institute dell'Università di Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI). Nel 2005 è stata visiting lecturer presso Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spagna.
Negli ultimi anni si è occupata principalmente del discorso accademico e professionale nell'ambito economico-aziendale, con particolare riferimento alle lezioni di economia e alle comunicazioni aziendali mediate dalle ICT. Ha partecipato ai vari programmi di ricerca interuniversitari COFIN/PRIN come membro dell'unità di ricerca di Firenze.
Svolge una intensa attività di referee per le seguenti riviste internazionali: Journal of Pragmatics, English for Specific Purposes, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Journal of Research in Reading e Reading in a Foreign Language. E' membro delle seguenti società scientifiche: AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica), ESSE (European Society of Studies of English) e ABC (Association for Business Communication).

• 2000 "Reading instruction - process vs. product in strategies for tackling the business press (Workshop on Teaching Oral and Written Genres of Economics: The Experience of the Economics Faculties of Florence and Siena",LSP Forum 99’, Proceedings of the International Conference on Teaching Languages for Specific/Academic Purposes in Universities, Prague, September 17-19, 1999, (in abstract form, p. 24).
• 2001 “Extensive reading in English: habits and attitudes of a group of Italian university EFL students”, Journal of Research in Reading, 24/2: 135-153 (Impact factor 2007: 1,340).
• 2001 “Understanding modality in economic texts”, in M. Gotti and M. Dossena (eds.) Modality in Specialized Texts: Selected Papers from the 1 st CERLIS Conference, Bern, Peter Lang: 379-396.
• 2002 “Complete vs. abridged texts: metadiscourse in comprehension and readability”, in M. L. Bisgnami, G. Iamartino, C. Pagetti (eds.) The Economy Principle in English: Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Perspectives, Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Associazione Italiana di Anglistica, Milano, Edizioni Unicopli: 115-121.
• 2002 “Discourse structuring in academic lectures to linguistically diverse and unfamiliar audiences”, in P. Evangelisti, E. Ventola (eds.) Textus Anno XIV, n. 2, English in Academic Settings: Techniques of Description/Pedagogical Applications: 265-278.
• 2002 “Sustained content in EAP/ESP reading instruction”, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica dell'Università di Firenze 12: 169-181. pdf (48.78 KB)
• 2003 "Metadiscourse and ESP reading comprehension: an exploratory study," Reading in a Foreign Language 15/1: 28-44.
• 2003 "Review of the International Conference on “Evaluation in Academic Discorse”, Siena Certosa di Pontignano, June 14-16 2003. AIA Associazione Italiana di Anglistica Newsletter Elettronico, n. 28, July 2003: 8-10.
• 2004 “Audience-oriented relevance markers in business studies lectures”, in Del Lungo Camiciotti G., Tognini Bonelli E. (eds.), Academic Discourse: Linguistic Insights into Evaluation, Proceedings of the Conference on Evaluation in Academic Discourse. Siena, Certosa di Pontignano, 14-16 giugno 2003, Bern, Peter Lang: 81-97.
• 2004 “Interacting with the audience: modality in cross-cultural business lectures”, in R. Facchinetti, F. Palmer (eds.) English Modality in Perspective. Genre Analysis and Contrastive Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang: 27-43.
• 2004 "Interactive discourse structuring in L2 guest lectures: some insights from a comparative corpus-based study", Journal of English for Academic Purposes 3,1: 39-54.
• 2004 “Teacher-student cultural mismatch in EFL: a survey of native English-speaking language teachers in Italian universities”, The English Teacher: An International Journal 7/1: 34-48.
• 2004 "Metaphor as evaluation in business studies lectures", i n L. Anderson, J. Bamford, (eds.) Evaluation in Spoken and Written Academic Discourse, Rome, Officina Edizioni.
• 2004 "Non-verbal communication in intercultural lectures", in M. Bondi, L. Gavioli, M. Silver (eds.), Academic Discourse, Genre and Small Corpora, Roma, Officina Edizioni: 35-52.
• 2004 “Walking on unfamiliar ground: interactive discourse markers in guest lectures”, in L. Haarman, J. Morley and A. Partington (eds.) Corpora and Discourse, Bern, Peter Lang: 91-106.
• 2005 "Adjusting a business lecture for an international audience: a case study", English for Specific Purposes 24/2: 183-199 (Impact factor 2007: 0,756).
• 2005 "The role of metadiscourse in university-level EAP reading instruction", in J. Bamford J., Bondi M. (eds.), Dialogue Within Discourse Communities: Metadiscursive Perspectives on Academic Genres, Tubingen, Max Niemeyer: 87-101.
• 2006 "Rhetorical strategies of company executives and investment analysts: Textual metadiscourse in corporate earnings calls", in Bhatia V. K., Gotti M. (eds.), Explorations in Specalized Genres, Bern, Peter Lang: 115-133.
• 2006 "Corporate earnings calls: a hybrid genre?", in Fortanet Gòmez I., Palmer Silveira J. C., Ruiz Garrido M. (eds.), English for International and Intercultural Business Communication, Bern, Peter Lang: 109-138.
• 2007 The Language of Business Studies Lectures: A corpus-assisted analysis, Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 157, Amsterdam/London, John Benjamins: xvi + 236.
• 2007 "Shaping a professional identity: Investment analysts' indirect requests in corporate earnings calls", in Bait M., Paginoni M. C. (eds.), Conference Proceedings of Discourse and Identity in Specialized Communication, Milano, Lubrina Ed.: 40-43.
• 2008 "Interaction in academic lectures vs. written text materials: the case of questions", Journal of Pragmatics 40, 7: 1216-1231 (Impact factor 2007: 0,484).
• 2008 Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English (Book Review), Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 7, 3, 290-293.
• 2008 "Teaching business: The role of language and identity", in Proceedings of the 8th Global Conference on Business and Economics, Florence, Italy, October 18-19, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-9742114-5-9. Lynchburg, VA: ABER, pp. 1-29. Available at http://www.facultyforum.com/gcbe/index.htm
• 2008 recensione a A. Ädel Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English, Studies in Corpus Linguistics 24, Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins 2006, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, doi:10.1016/j.jeap.2008.05.003. (Book Review).
• 2009 "The teaching style of the business educator: A corpus-based investigation of the relationship between language and identity", International Journal of Business & Economics, 9, 117-136.
• 2009 "Collective and individual identities in business studies lectures", in M. Gotti (ed.), Commonality and Individuality in Academic Discourse. Bern: Peter Lang, 141-160.
• 2009 "‘Just wondering if you could comment on that': indirect requests for information in corporate earnings calls", Text & Talk, 29, 6, 661-681.
• 2010 "Discourse connectives in genres of financial disclosure: earnings calls vs. earnings releases", Journal of Pragmatics, 42, 3, 650-653.
• 2001 con Walsh, P. “Lecturing to an unfamiliar audience: some functions of interaction in business lectures by visiting academics”, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica dell’Univeristà di Firenze 11: 171-183. pdf (85.95 KB)
• 2006 con Del Lungo Camiciotti G., Dossena M., (a cura di), Variation in Business and Economics Discourse: Diachronic and Genre Perspectives, Rome, Officina Ed.

• The multiple identities of the business academic. Bern, Peter Lang .
• "A corpus-informed approach to teaching lecture comprehension skills in English for Business Studies", in M. C. Campoy-Cubillo, B. Bellés Fortuño, L. Gea-Valor (eds.), Corpus-Based Approaches to ELT. London and New York: Continuum.