Gloria Cappelli

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Location: Sezione di Anglistica, Via Santa Maria 67, Primo Piano, Studio n. 13.

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Research interests

Gloria Cappelli is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics of the University of Pisa. She teaches on the degree programmes in Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tourism Studies, Primary Education, and Social Work. She collaborates with the University Language Centre to design English-language courses for students with dyslexia and serves as Director of the initial teacher education programme for secondary school teachers of English Language and Culture.
Her research lies in the fields of English linguistics and pragmatics, with a particular focus on lexical semantics and pragmatics, vocabulary acquisition, and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning in young adults with typical development and developmental dyslexia. She also works on English for Specific Purposes (ESP), especially tourism discourse, investigating its lexical, pragmatic, discourse and multimodal features through corpus-based approaches. More recently, her research has expanded to digital communication, multimodal pragmatics, and the role of semiotic resources in meaning construction and communicative accessibility.
Her theoretical work informs applied research on language teaching, inclusive language education, and teacher training. She is the author of monographs, edited volumes, and numerous publications in national and international journals.

Publications

• Compliments as supportive moves in social media conflicts: Intercultural patterns in L2 English production (Bruti, Silvia; Cappelli, Gloria; Simi, Nicoletta - 2026 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• Learning English Specialised Vocabulary through Informal Exposure to Special-Interest Content (Cappelli, Gloria; Simi, Nicoletta - 2026 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• Procedural Meaning in Multimodal Pragmatics: How Emojis Modulate Epistemic Interpretation (Cappelli, Gloria - 2026 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• From Protest to Criminal Disruption. A Diachronic Investigation into the Framing of Climate Activism in the UK (Cappelli, Gloria - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• Ten years of using the APACS test: a multistudy cross-diagnostic analysis of pragmatic profiles and their relationship with Theory of Mind (Frau, Federico; Bosia, Marta; Bischetti, Luca; Cappelli, Gloria; Carotenuto, Antonio; Diamanti, Luca; Montemurro, Sonia; Agostoni, Giulia; Bechi, Margherita; D'Imperio, Daniela; Lago, Sara; Noccetti, Sabrina; Simi, Nicoletta; Ceroni, Mauro; Iodice, Rosa; Signorini, Matteo; Arcara, Giorgio; Bambini, Valentina - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• Instagram English microlessons. A new genre for nonformal EFL learning (Cappelli, Gloria; Simi, Nicoletta - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• The Language of Accessible Adventure Tourism (Cappelli, Gloria - 2024 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))
• New Sun, Sea, Sex and the Unspoilt Countryside. How the English language makes tourists out of readers. [Revised and Updated Edition] (Cappelli, Gloria - 2023 - 3.1 Monografia o trattato scientifico)
• Dyslexia and Pragmatic Skills (Cappelli, Gloria; Noccetti, Sabrina; Simi, Nicoletta; Arcara, Giorgio; Bambini, Valentina - 2022 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))
• Dyslexia and vocabulary depth in EFL text comprehension (Cappelli, Gloria; Noccetti, Sabrina - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• Reading Comprehension in Young Adult Learners of English with and without Dyslexia (Cappelli, Gloria - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• Linguistics for children: The intermodal presentation of English grammar metalanguage in materials for young learners (Cappelli, Gloria - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• A Linguistic Approach to the Study of Dyslexia (Cappelli, Gloria; Noccetti, Sabrina - 2022 - 7.1 Curatela)
• The Impact of Dyslexia on Lexico-Semantic Abilities: An Overview (Cappelli, Gloria - 2022 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))
• Dyslexia and Pragmatic Skills (Cappelli, Gloria; Noccetti, Sabrina; Simi, Nicoletta; Arcara, Giorgio; Bambini, Valentina - 2022 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))

All publications by Gloria Cappelli on ARPI, the Research Archive of the University of Pisa