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Contact:

pierfranca.forchini@unicatt.it

Pierfranca Forchini, PhD

Project Director

The American Movie Corpus

Project Advisor

VALENTINA MORGANA, PhD

Researcher of English Language and Linguistics

Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (IT)

valentina.morgana@unicatt.it



The AMC TEAM

FRANCESCA POLI, PhD

Adjunct Lecturer

Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (IT)

francesca.poli@unicatt.it

Post Doc Fellow, Università di Verona (IT)

LAURA ANELLI, PhD

Language Instructor

Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (IT)

laura.anelli@unicatt.it

AMANDA C. MURPHY, PhD

Professor of English Language and Linguistics

Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan and Brescia (IT)

amanda.murphy@unicatt.it

VICE-CHAIR of the INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC BOARD

FRANCESCA L. SERACINI, PhD

Researcher of English Language and Linguistics

Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (IT)

francesca.seracini@unicatt.it

MEMBER of the INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC BOARD


Avv. SILVANA DIBENEDETTO

Criminal and Civil Attorney (ITA)

silvana@avvocatodibenedetto.it

www.avvocatodibenedetto.it

PIERFRANCA FORCHINI, PhD

Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics

Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (IT)

pierfranca.forchini@unicatt.it

CHAIR of the INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC BOARD

Roots and Acknowledgements

The main idea of exploring authentic movie language and assembling movie corpora took root in 2005, when MARIA PAVESI started directing and developing what is now called the Pavia Corpus of Film Dialogue at the University of Pavia (Italy). I would like to express my great esteem for her valuable work and my sincere gratitude for her constant support throughout the years.

I would like to express my immense gratitude and esteem to DOUGLAS BIBER and RANDI REPPEN for offering time, collaboration, and friendship. Douglas Biber’s ideas, methodology and meticulous comments have had a major impact on all my work since I was a visiting scholar at Northern Arizona University (Arizona, USA) in 2008.


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