Cognitive Insights into Discourse Markers and Second Language Acquisition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781787078918)

Iria Bello is a research assistant at Heidelberg University, where she also teaches English and Spanish language and culture at the Institute of Translation and Interpreting. Her research interests include historical sociolinguistics and cognitive and corpus linguistics.

Carolina Bernales is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Pontifi cia Universidad Catica de Valpara﨎o-Chile. Her research focuses on lexical processing and reading comprehension in a second language and she has also has published on classroom interaction and foreign language learning.

Maria Vittoria Calvi is Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Translation at the University of Milan and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cuadernos AISPI. Estudios de lenguas y literaturas hisp疣icas. Her research interests include comparative Spanish and Italian linguistics, discourse analysis, Spanish and Italian in migration contexts, genre analysis and cross-cultural variation in professional and specialized discourse, with a particular focus on the language of tourism.

Elena Landone is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University Degli Studi in Milan. Her main research fields are discourse markers, pragmatics and foreign language teaching and she is the author of Los marcadores del discurso y la cortes僘 verbal en espal (2009).