PANNAIN Rossella

In 1986 she graduates "summa cum laude" in Foreign Modern Languages and Literatures (Chinese, English, Tibetan) from the University "L'Orientale" of Naples, with a dissertation in historical comparative linguistics on the wider relationships of the Sino-Tibetan linguistic family.
-After graduating she takes part in several research programs at the "Orientale": "Linguistic prehisory and protohistory of Eurasia" (see the publications in 1987 and 1988); "Dictionary of etnonyms and toponyms of Anciet Italy": "Analysis of the archaic texts of Uruk IV"; "A General Atlas of food terminology in the Mediterranean".
In 1988 she is awarded a Fulbright grant and starts a three semesters graduate program in Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Indiana, Bloomington, USA.
In january 1989 she is admitted (with scholarship) to a PhD program in Linguistics at the University of Pisa, Department of Linguistics, which she strats after having completed the two remainig semesters in Bloomington. She successfully discusses her PhD dissertation on "Numerals: linguistic and cognitive aspects" in May 1992.
In 1994 she wins a scholarship for a two years post-PhD program in Linguistics at the University "L'Orientale" of Naples, to further her reasearch on numerals from a cognitive linguistic perpective..
In june 1995 she attends the "Summer School on Language and Understanding" organized by the "Centro Internazionale di Studi Semiotici e Cognitivi e dalla Società di Filosofia del Linguaggio" (Umberto Eco among the founders), at the University of San Marino, where she presents the further results of her research on numerals.
She contributed to a research program on food terminology in the Mediterrean directed by Domenico Silvestri (financed by the Italian Ministry of Reasearch and University, PRIN 1997), by investigatin food terminology in dialectal varieties of South Italy.
In 2000 she has been in charge of the organizational aspects of a two-year financed research program on numerals, directed by Domentico Silvestri (PRIN 2000), “Numerali ed Istanze di Numerazione”. The data collection in the reasearch was based on a typological data base of her own design, the theoretical and metodological aspects of which she describes in a paper "Numerali ed istanze di numerazione: note per un progetto di tipologia areale dei numerali", published in AIΩN (Annali del Dipartimento di Studi del Mondo Classico e del Mediterraneo Antico, Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale, sezione linguistica) 22, 2000, 63-103
In order to further her research on numerals and classifiers, in 2001 she spends two months at the University of Califoirnia, Santa Barbara, where she also attends the “Summer School” of the Linguistic Society of America.
She has been in charge of the organizational aspects of the two-year financed research program (PRIN 2002) on "Metalinguistic terminology and espressions for Linguistic Action, “Termini per le lingue e per le attività linguistiche”) and later of a further financed two-year research program (PRIN 2005) on lexicological and terminological issues (“Atlanti linguistici tematici informatici").
More recently she participated to two more two-year PRIN research projects: 2017 “Lingue antiche e sistemi scrittorî in contatto: pietra di paragone del mutamento linguistico”, directed by Paolo Di Giovine and PRIN 2020 “Metalinguistic texts as a privileged data source for the knowledge of ancient languages", directed by da Luca Lorenzetti.
She took part in international research program Investigación sobre la metonimia conceptual en áreas seleccionadas de la gramática, el discurso y la lengua de signos con ayuda de la base de datos de metonimia de la Universidad de Córdoba (2019-2021), directed by Antonio Barcelona, and is currently involved in a local departmental at the Univ L’Orientale focused on food lexicon ALMA: Atlante Linguistico Multimediale della diversità Alimentare bio/culturale, directed by Anna de Meo
Since November 1, 2000, she is associate professor of Linguistics at the Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere of the Università degli Studi di Napoli “l’Orientale”, where she has been teaching mainly "General Linguistics" "Cognitive Linguistics" and "Psycholinguistics" and “Cognitive Approaches to the Lexicon”.
She was Vice-Director of the Dipartimento di Studi del Mondo Classico e del Mediterraneo Antico dell'Univ. di Napoli "L'Orientale" (November 30, 2007- December 31, 2012).
She directed two graduate programs in linguistics and in translation studies:
1) "Lingue e Linguaggi: Modelli Cognitivi e Descrittivi", (November 2007-October 2012; 2) "Linguistica e Traduzione Specialistica",(October 2009-October 2012).
She was member of the Board of Directors of the Società Italiana di Glottologia (2008-2010).
She was member of the Scientific Board of the PhD program in “Teoria delle Lingue e del Linguaggio” at the Università “L’Orientale”.
Since January 2001 is member of the editorial board of an A rank scientific journal in linguistics, AIΩN Linguistica, published by the Univ. L’Orientale.
Among her main research interests: the study of word formation, from both a typological and congnitive perspective, in specific lexical domains (numerals, classifiers, acronyms amd abbreviations, expressions for linguistic activity, food terminology); linguistic phenomena related to the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on figurative language; linguistics aspects of political communication.