Eugenia DIEGOLI

Current position

31/03/2025– Assistant professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies, working on the SELFEE (SELF-Evaluative Emotions in English and Japanese) project

Previous positions

1/10/2023–30/3/2025 Research Fellow at the University of Bologna, Department of Interpretation and Translation, working on the project “Testing Lexical Priming on Japanese: towards corroborating or otherwise a universal theory of language” (Supervisor: Anna MARCHI)

5/12/2023–30/9/2024 Adjunct professor of ‘Advanced Japanese language’ (MA course,  L-OR/22, cod. 89554) at the University of Bologna, Department of Interpretation and Translation

Education

19/06/2023 PhD in Japanese and Korean Languages and Literatures, University of Bologna, (Supervisors: Alan PARTINGTON, Motoko UEYAMA), awarded cum laude with a dissertation entitled “A corpus-assisted analysis of apology-like behaviour in Japanese Computer-Mediated Discourse”

16/07/2019 MA Degree in Language, Culture and Society in Asia and Mediterranean Africa (Japan) (LM-38), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Supervisor: Patrick HEINRICH), 110/110 with honours

25/10/2016 BA Degree in Languages, Economics and Institutions of Asia and North Africa (Japan) (L-11), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 110/110 with honours

Mobility

19/04–14/07/2024 Visiting Research Scholar at Meiji University, School of Global Japanese Studies, Tokyo (Marco Polo fellowship; Supervisor: TANAKA Makirō).

1/11/2022–16/02/2023 Visiting Research Scholar at Waseda University, School of Education, Tokyo (Supervisor: Peter BACKHAUS).

15/04–15/07/2022 Visiting Research Scholar at Lancaster University, Lancaster (Marco Polo fellowship; Supervisor: Jonathan CULPEPER).

6/10–17/12/2021 Visiting Research Scholar at Lancaster University, Lancaster (Supervisor: Jonathan CULPEPER).

1/09/2018–25/03/2019 Overseas exchange (JASSO scholarship) for a research stay at Meiji University, School of Global Japanese Studies, Tokyo (Supervisor: KOMORI Kazuko).

15/03–15/08/2017 Overseas language exchange at Waseda University, Tokyo.

25/03–26/08/2016 Overseas language exchange at Yokohama National University, Yokohama.

Organisation of scientific meetings

27–30/09/2023 Co-organiser of the “Theories and methods for the corpus-assisted analysis of discourse: from language that denotes to language that expresses phenomena” Summer School, Corpus, Linguistic and Technology (CoLiTec) Research Group, Bertinoro.

Teaching activities

AY 2023/2024 Adjunct professor for the MA advanced course in Japanese Language (L-OR/22), University of Bologna, Department of Interpreting and Translation.

AY 2021/2022 Tutoring activities for the BA course in Japanese Language and Culture (L-OR/22) and the MA advanced course in Japanese Language (L-OR/22), University of Bologna, Department of Interpreting and Translation.

AY 2020/2021 Tutoring activities for the BA course in Japanese Language and Culture (L-OR/22), University of Bologna, Department of Interpreting and Translation.

Selected publications

Books

Diegoli, E. 2025. Online apologies in Japanese. BRILL. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004722392

[Under contract] Partington, A., & Diegoli, E. 2026. Lexical Priming: evolution, evaluation and applications to English and Japanese. Routledge.

Book chapters

[Forthcoming] Diegoli, E., & Taylor, C. 2025. Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis. International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd ed.). Elsevier.

[Forthcoming] Diegoli, E. 2025. Normative practices of linguistic correction on Hatsugen Komachi: A corpus-assisted approach to (meta)discourses around linguistic ‘mistakes’. Heinrich, P., Grosser, F. & Santalahti, S. (Eds.). Ideologies of Communication in Japan. Multilingual Matters.

[Forthcoming] Diegoli, E. 2025. A corpus-assisted approach to conventionalised apologies in Japanese and English computer-mediated discourse. Xie, C. (Ed.), Advancing (Im)politeness Studies. Springer. Preprint available here

Peer-reviewed articles

[Forthcoming] Partington, A., & Diegoli, E. 2025. Lexical Priming. Evolution, Evaluation, Extension. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.

Diegoli, E. (2025). “This apology doesn’t seem sincere at all” (Meta)discourses around Will Smith’s apology in English and Japanese YouTube comments. Journal of Pragmatics [special issue], 237, 68–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.003

Diegoli, E., & Reggiani, L. 2024. Errore linguistico ed emozioni in francese e giapponese [Linguistic mistakes and emotions in French and Japanese]. MediAzioni, 41, D262‒D282 [Special issue]

Diegoli, E. (2024). ‘Only idiots get vaccinated w’: A corpus-assisted analysis of laughter-text in Japanese online (anti-)vaccination discourses. Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies, 7(1), 210–232 [Special issue]. https://doi.org/10.18573/jcads.112

Diegoli, E., & Öhman, E. 2024. Contrasting the semantic space of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Japanese. Language and Cognition [Special issue]. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2024.6

Diegoli, E. 2023. A corpus-assisted analysis of indexical signs for (im)politeness in Japanese apology-like behaviour. Journal of Politeness Research. https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2022-0002

Diegoli, E. 2022. “Sorry for your consideration”: The (in)adequacy of English speech act labels in describing ‘apologies’ and ‘thanks’ in Japanese. Intercultural Pragmatics, 19(5): 621–45. https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2022-5004

Diegoli, E. 2022. The speech act of apologising in Japanese online communication. A corpus-assisted study on the use of gomen in written, computer-mediated settings. East Asian Pragmatics, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1558/eap.18599

Conference presentations & talks

21–27/06/2025 Beyond words: the meanings of bowing in a corpus of Japanese (Panel: Affective Pragmatics). 19th IPRA Conference, Brisbane, Australia.

18/10/2024 A corpus-assisted analysis of laughter-text in Japanese online (anti-)vaccination discourses. Invited talk for A serendipitous journey: symposium in honour of Alan Partington. University of Bologna, Forlì.

17–19/07/2024 Lexical Priming: Evolution, Evaluation, Extension. 7th Corpora and Discourse International Conference, University of Innsbruck, Austria (with Alan Partington).

17/05/2024 Lexical Priming: Evolution, Evaluation, Extension. Yahoo!知恵袋における言語パターンに着目して [with a focus on the linguistic patterns of Yahoo! Chiebukuro]. 国際日本学研究科院生フォーラム [Research forum of the Graduate School of Global Japanese Studies]. Meiji University, Tokyo.

12–14/10/2023 “Only idiots get vaccinated w”: Laughter as an emotional device in Japanese online (anti-)vaccination discourses (Panel: Emotions in digital discourses). Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis 4 (ADDA 4), Klagenfurt, Austria.

9–15/07/2023 “This apology doesn’t seem sincere at all”: a cross-cultural analysis of online (meta)discourses around Will Smith’s apology (Panel: First-order pragmatics). 18th IPRA Conference, Brussels, Belgium.

15/03/2023 Errore linguistico ed emozioni in francese e giapponese [Linguistic mistakes and emotions in French and Japanese]. Giornata di studio sulle emozioni [Conference on emotions], University of Bologna (with Licia Reggiani).

21–23/10/2022 A corpus-assisted approach to conventionalised apologies in Japanese and English computer-mediated discourse. First International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics (ICDP-1), Hangzhou, China [online].

27–29 /08/2022 A corpus-assisted approach to conventionalised apologies in Japanese and English computer-mediated discourse. 6th Corpora and Discourse International Conference, Bertinoro.

25–26/03/2022 ‘Sorry for the long message’: a discursive approach to analysing Japanese apologies in online settings. Asian Conference on Language (ACL) 2022, Tokyo [online].

15/12/2021 “Sorry for your consideration”: the blurring of apologies and thanks in Japanese Computer-Mediated Discourse. Invited talk at Lancaster University, Lancaster.

28–29/10/2021 The speech act of apologising in Japanese Computer-Mediated Discourse: a corpus-assisted approach. 8th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora (CMC-Corpora 2021), Nijmegen, Netherlands [online].

27/06–2/07/2021 The speech act of apologising in Japanese online communication. 17th IPRA Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland [online].

Academic service

Reviewer

Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Contrastive Pragmatics, Journal of East Asian Pragmatics, Pragmatics and Society, Journal of Intercultural Pragmatics, Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies, Applied Corpus Linguistics, Corpus Pragmatics

Copyeditor

Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies (since 17/01/2024)

Translations

[Forthcominig] Diegoli, E. (trans.). Tënk, La Bête (producers), Hamzehian, A., & Mortarotti, V. (directors). Vapeur [Motion picture]. Italy.

Diegoli, E., & Martina, D. (trans.) Suzuki, O. 2024. Tokyo Goodbye. Oblomov.

Diegoli, E. (trans.). Hamzehian, A., & Mortarotti, V. 2021. L'Isola. Quodlibet, Skinnerboox.

Diegoli, E. (trans.). Tënk, La Bête (producers), Hamzehian, A., & Mortarotti, V. (directors). 2021. Yonaguni. [Motion picture]. Italy.

Diegoli, E. (trans.). Italian Cultural Institute of Tokyo, Ca’ Foscari University (producers) Hamzehian, A., & Mortarotti, V. (directors). 2021. L’Isola. [Sound installation]. Festival della Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, IT, Le Cap, Lione, FR.

Diegoli, E. (trans.) Yoshiharu, T. 2018. Nejishiki. Oblomov.

Public outreach

30/09/2022 Il “tour delle scuse” con The Big Bang Theory: cosa significa scusarsi e perchè è così difficile farlo? [The “apology tour” with The Big Bang Theory: what does it mean to apologise and why is it so hard?], Teaching webinar at the European Researchers' Night, Forlì

24/09/2021 Waku waku o doki doki? Alla scoperta delle onomatopee in giapponese [Waku waku or doki doki? Let's discover Japanese onomatopoeia together], Teaching webinar at the European Researchers' Night, Forlì

27/11/2020 Un nuovo lessico per la tua chat: emoji tra Italia e Giappone [A new vocabulary for your chat: emoji in Italy and Japan], Teaching webinar at the European Researchers’ Night, Forlì.

Affiliations

International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) (21/12/2020-)

Pragmatic Society of Japan (JPS) 日本語語用論学会 (14/04/2021-oggi)

The Linguistic Society of Japan (LSJ) 日本言語学会 (05/08/2024-)

Associazione Italiana per gli Studi Giapponesi (AISTUGIA) (18/10/2022-)

Languages

Italian: Native

Japanese: C2 (JLPT N1)

English: C2 (IELTS 8.0)

Scholarships & Awards

Young researcher bursary to present at the 19th IPRA Conference, Brisbane, 21–27/06/2025.

Seal of Excellence for the MSCA post-doctoral fellowship 2023 (score: 94.60/100).

Marco Polo fellowship, 19/04–14/07/2024, Meiji University, Tokyo.

Student bursary to present at the 18th IPRA Conference, Brussels, 9–15/07/2023.

Bursary to attend the workshop “Using corpus & discourse methods to study nostalgia”, Corpus, Linguistic and Technology (CoLiTec) Research Group, Bertinoro, 3–5/05/2023.

Best doctoral student paper award for the paper entitled “A corpus-assisted approach to conventionalised apologies in Japanese and English computer-mediated discourse”, presented at the First International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics (ICDP-1), Hangzhou, China [online], 21–23/10/2022.

Marco Polo fellowship, 15/04–15/07/2022, Lancaster University, Lancaster.

JASSO scholarship, 1/09/18–25/03/19, Meiji University, Tokyo.

Overseas scholarship, 15/03–15/08/2017, Waseda University, Tokyo.

Overseas scholarship, 25/03–26/08/2016, Yokohama University, Yokohama.