Patrizia Pierini is associate professor of English Language and Translation at the Faculty of Letters, “Roma Tre” University. She has published extensively in the fields of contrastive linguistics, translation studies, discourse and genre analysis, and domain-specific English. She published the monograph The Living Philology: Il pensiero linguistico di Henry Sweet (Rome, 1989) and edited two volumes: L’atto del tradurre. Aspetti teorici e pratici della traduzione (Rome, 1999), and Lo sviluppo della competenza traduttiva. Orientamenti, problemi e proposte (Rome, 2001).