Stefania Maci

Stefania M. Maci is Full Professor of English Linguistics and Translation at the University of Bergamo - Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures. She is currently involved in national and international research projects on academic English and legal discourse genres, with particular regard to: • Medical Discourse (Medical poster presentations; Metadiscursive and argumentative strategies of medical English across genres and cultures; evidentiality). • Tourism discourses (Promotional and specialised traits in English for tourism; The web-language of tourism; Legal and managerial linguistic aspects in specialised tourism texts). • Legal Language (Italian and English arbitral awards; Witness hearings in arbitral awards; Plain language movement). Recent publications include: the monographs Evidentiality in the genre of medical posters (2022) and English Tourism Discourse (2020); the co-edited volumes Corpus Linguistics and Translation Tools for Digital Humanities (2022), The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Communication (2022);  Metadiscourse in Digital Communication (2021); and the papers “Data triangulation using Sketch Engine and WMatrix: Ketogenic diet on Twitter” (2022); “The narrative of the anti-vax campaign on Twitter” (2021); and “Parents’ narrative about congenital heart diseases” (2019). AFFILIATION Università degli Studi di Bergamo Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere. Piazza Rosate 2 24129 Bergamo, Italy Ph: and Fax: ++39 (0)35 2052-746 e-mail: stefania.maci@unibg.it Skype: stefania maci orcid.org/0000-0003-1654-5665 RESEARCH INTERESTS English for Specific Purposes, medical discourse, tourism discourse, Academic discourse, legal discourse, Pragmatics, Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Evidentiality, Media Studies, multimodality and socio-semiotics