Antonella Luporini is a researcher in English language and translation at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on software-assisted literary stylistics and related pedagogic applications, computer-mediated communication and L2 English teaching, and corpus-assisted metaphor studies. Her latest publications on these topics include Interpersonal Meaning in a Corpus of Students-Teachers Computer Mediated Communication, Software-assisted Systemic Socio-Semantic Stylistics: Exploring “white” and “red” in J. Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, and Metaphor in times of crisis: Legitimising austerity?.
