We are pleased to announce that Pierfranca Forchini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan), will be one of the three keynote speakers at the EUROCALL 2025 conference in Milan!
Pierfranca Forchini has an MA in Foreign Languages and Literatures, an MA in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, and a PhD in Linguistic and Literary Sciences. Her main interests are corpus linguistics (pragmatics and the lexico-grammar of spoken and movie language), language varieties (especially the differences between British and American English), applied linguistics (phraseology and the use of movies as potential sources for language teaching and learning), contrastive linguistics (phraseology, dubbing from English into Italian, English vs. Italian sound system), and business English (particularly Presentations in Company Contexts). She is currently an Associate Professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.