Michele Mannoni

Introduction

Michele Mannoni (满铂渊) is a linguist of Mandarin Chinese, which he investigates from different perspectives, mainly in the fields of discourse analysis and conceptual metaphor theory. His interest focuses on processes of signification, both at the intralinguistic and interlingual level. The main focus of his research is Chinese legal language, understood as the linguistic variety used in laws, regulations and private legal documents. In his most recent publications, he has explored metaphors used in Chinese and English for key legal concepts, such as 'legal rights' (權利) and 'injustice' (冤). He is currently working on perfecting a procedure for identifying linguistic metaphors in Chinese, and is extending his research to the analysis of the metaphorical language of emotions. For the Project of Excellence on Inclusive Humanities (2023-2027), he works in the area of linguistics on the topics of inclusion and accessibility through the above perspectives with a focus on institutional language, and language about health, including psycho-affective and physical health.

Academic achievements

• 2018-2024: National Habilitation to practice as an Associate Professor of Chinese Studies
• 2021-2024: Tenure-track Research Assistant in Chinese legal language and corpus linguistics at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Verona
• 2019-2021: Research Assistant in Chinese legal language and digital humanities (Project of Excellence) at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Verona
• 2019: Visiting Scholar at the Institutum Iurisprudentiae of Academia Sinica of Taipei, Taiwan
• 2018: Visiting Scholar at the Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica of Taipei, Taiwan
• 2015-2018: Research Assistant in Chinese Legal Language at the University of Perugia under the co-supervision of Prof. Deborah Cao (Griffith University, Australia)
• 2015: Ph.D. in Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (major in: Chinese)
• 2011: M.A. in Interpreting and Translation for Special Purposes, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (major in: Chinese, English)
• 2008: B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Firenze (major in: Chinese, English, Japanese)

Languages

• Italian: native speaker
• Mandarin Chinese (简体字和正體字): can read, write, speak, collect data and peer review
• English: can read, write, speak, collect data and peer review
• Portuguese: can read, write, speak, collect data and peer review
• Japanese: can understand simple written texts
• Spanish: can understand written texts in my research area
• French: can understand written texts in my research area