Innovation in Language Learning

Pietro Luigi Iaia is Researcher and Adjunct Professor of English Linguistics and Translation at the University of Salento, Italy. He holds a Ph.D. in English Linguistics applied to Translation Studies and his research interests focus on the cognitive-semantic, pragmatic and socio-cultural dimensions of the dubbing translation of multimodal texts, and on ELF variations in cross-cultural audiovisual discourse. His publications include: "Analysing English as a Lingua Franca in Video Games" (published by Peter Lang), "The Dubbing Translation of Humorous Audiovisual Texts" (published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing), and "Il ruolo della trascrizione multimodale nell'analisi e traduzione dell'ibridazione audiovisiva" (in "Lingue e Linguaggi" 18).