The Language of Fashion: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Cultural Insights - Hardcover

by Maurizio Gotti (Editor), Annalisa Baicchi (Volume Editor), Stefania Biscetti (Volume Editor)

The specialised language of fashion draws the research interest of linguists and semioticians as well as communication experts and fashion historians. This volume contributes to advancing the knowledge of crucial aspects in the language of fashion that still need deep investigation. It brings together contributions that shed light on the morphological, lexical, pragmatic, and cultural aspects of the language of fashion, without ignoring cognitive and semiotic phenomena. The diversity of topics and perspectives of the chapters presented here testifies to the variety and vitality of scientific research in the complex and multifaceted language of fashion.

Author Biography

Annalisa Baicchi is Chair of English Linguistics
at the University of Genova, Italy. Her research
interests include cognitive linguistics, construction
grammar, inferential pragmatics, contrastive
linguistics, and acquisitional linguistics,
investigated from the perspective of complexity
theories.

Stefania Biscetti is Assistant Professor of English
Linguistics at the University of L'Aquila,
Italy. Her research activity is mainly aimed at
identifying the impact of culture and cognition
on language use. Her research interests include
linguistic pragmatics and semantics, cognitive
linguistics, contrastive linguistics, approached
both synchronically and diachronically.