ASSENZA Elvira

Elvira Assenza is Associate Professor of Italian Linguistics (SSD L-FIL-LET/12) at the COSPECS Department of the University of Messina.
From 2010 to 2014 she was Professor of Italian Linguistics in the ATLANTIS Program for the "Transatlantic Degree Cinema and Language" (TDC & L) in partnership with the University of Messina (CIMS), Virginia Commonwealth University - Richmond - Virginia (USA) and the University of Cordoba (Spain).
She was in 2017 Visiting Professor at the Summer School of Dialectology and Historical Linguistics, organized by the Center for Dialectology and Ethnography (CDE) and the Department of Education, Culture and Sport/Division of Culture and University Studies of Bellinzona (Republic and Canton of Ticino).
She is Member of: the College of Postgraduate Supervisors in Cognitive Sciences; the Executive board of Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani (CSFLS); the Scientific Committee of the Archive of Sicilian Popular Writings (CSFLS); the Scientific Committee for Materiali e Ricerche dell'Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia.
She took part in several Research Projects of National Interest (PRIN) and was Scientific Director of the University Research Project (PRA) 2008-2009.
Since 2019 she is co-director of the CSFLS editorial project "Scriptures from dialect to language".
In 2019, 2021, 2022 she was a beneficiary of the Funding for the Basic Activity of University's Research (FFABR Unime).

Her research activity, evidenced by numerous works of national and international importance, has as its main lines: Sociolinguistic variability of Italian; Diachronic and synchronic dynamisms of Sicilian and extreme southern Italian dialects; Popular Italian abroad; Code-switching processes in contexts of asymmetric bilingualism; Discourse analysis; Toponymy and Literary Onomastics.