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Biography
Marianna Falcone is a PhD student at King’s College London in the School of Education, Communication & Society. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Philology (2014) and a MA in Linguistics (2016) from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
While studying for her doctoral degree, Marianna has worked as an Assistant Researcher on a series of projects investigating multiple topics, such as metaphor acquisition, metaphor in health communication, and linguistic creativity.
Marianna has also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant leading seminars on the ‘English Lexis’ module on King's English Language & Linguistics BA programme.
Thesis
Marianna’s thesis title is: Metaphors in narratives about diabetes: cross-cultural differences and similarities.
Her project, drawing on the field of cognitive linguistics, investigates the use of metaphor framings in narratives about lived experiences of chronic illness, namely Type 2 Diabetes. By comparing data from Italian and English participants, the research also investigates the influence that cultural and/or linguistic aspects may have on figurative speech.
Principal supervisor: Professor Gabriella Rundblad
Secondary supervisor: Khalida Ismail
Research
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Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication (LDC)
The Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication is a major centre for descriptive linguistics, applied linguistics and language in education.
Research
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Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication (LDC)
The Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication is a major centre for descriptive linguistics, applied linguistics and language in education.