Laura LOCATELLI

EDUCATION

Sept. 2022-ongoing: PhD Candidate in Chinese Linguistics (XXXVIII Cycle)

- Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Dept. of Asian and North African Studies - Supervisors: Prof. Bianca Basciano, Prof. Daniele Brombal

Sept. 2019-Jul. 2021: M.A. in Interpreting and Translation for Publishing and for Special Purposes (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

Grade: 110/110 cum laude (First Class Honours)

Thesis Title: "The Acquisition of the Mandarin Chinese bèi Construction: Analysis of the Errors made by Italian-speaking Learners". Supervisors: Prof. Bianca Basciano, Prof. Anna Morbiato

Sept. 2016-Nov. 2019: B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature (University of Bergamo)

Grade: 110/110 cum laude (First Class Honours)

Thesis Title: "On the Adjectival Modification in Modern Chinese". Supervisor: Prof. Maria Giuseppina Gottardo.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

Sept. 2022-ongoing: 3-year PhD full scholarship, Italian Ministry of University / Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Jan. 2019: Chinese Government Merit Scholarship, China

Aug. 2018-Jan. 2019: Overseas Scholarship (Merit Scholarship), University of Bergamo / Dalian University of Foreign Languages (China)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Sept. -Nov. 2024: [planned] Visiting researcher at the University of California (UCLA), USA, sponsored by Prof. Hongyin Tao.

Apr. -Jun. 2024: [planned] Visiting researcher at the University of Oregon, USA, sponsored by Prof. Zhuo Jing-Schmidt.

Sept. 2023-ongoing: Tutor for Chinese Language 1.1 (30h), Chinese Language 2.1 (30 h), Chinese Language 3.1 (30 h), Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Dept. of Asian and North-African Studies

Mar. 2023-ongoing: Teaching Assistant Senior for Chinese Linguistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Dept. of Asian and North-African Studies

Oct. 2020-Sept. 2022: Italian Teacher to Chinese Students (Huayitong Education 华意通教育)

Jan. 2018-Sept. 2022: Translator and Consecutive Interpreter IT<>ENG / IT<>CH / CH<>ENG

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (peer-reviewed presented papers)

2024: [Accepted] Environmental sustainability in the ESG reports of Chinese listed companies: A preliminary corpus-assisted collocation analysis from an ecolinguistic perspective. The 12th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-12), Sept. 19-20, Roma Tre University, Italy.  

2024: [Accepted] Chinese passive construction and grounding: a preliminary corpus-based functional analysis. The 12th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-12), Sept. 19-20, Roma Tre University, Italy.  

2024: [Accepted] Environmental sustainability in the ESG reports of Chinese listed companies: A preliminary corpus-assisted analysis from an ecolinguistic perspective (with Daniele Brombal, Sergio Conti & Pui Yiu Szeto). 7th Corpora and Discourse International Conference (CADS24), Jul 17-19, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

2024: [Accepted] Foregrounding and backgrounding through passive constructions: a corpus-based functional analysis of Chinese environmental discourse. 7th Corpora and Discourse International Conference (CADS24), Jul 17-19, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

2024: [Accepted] The Corpus on Chinese Environmental Discourse: designing and compiling a multi-genre domain-specific corpus. The 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennal Conference, Jul 16-17, University of Cambridge, U.K.

2024: Chinese passive constructions in environmental communication: a corpus-based preliminary inquiry into their discourse functions. 4th International Doctoral Symposium on Asian and African Studies (IDSAAS IV), Apr 3-4, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

2023: La lingua dei report ESG sulla sostenibilità delle aziende cinesi quotate: un'analisi preliminare corpus-assisted secondo la prospettiva ecolinguistica (with Sergio Conti & Pui Yiu Szeto). XIX AISC Conference (Italian Association of Chinese Studies), Sept. 21-23, University of Rome "Sapienza", Italy.

2023: La costruzione passiva con bèi 被 nel cinese L2 di apprendenti italofoni: uno studio preliminare (with Alessia Iurato). XIX AISC Conference (Italian Association of Chinese Studies), Sept. 21-23, University of Rome "Sapienza", Italy.

2023: [Accepted] L2 acquisition of syntactic and semantic properties of 被 bèi passive construction by L1 Italian learners (with Alessia Iurato). 7th International Conference of Chinese as a Second Language (CASLAR). Aug. 17-18-19, Peking University, China.

2022: The Chinese passive 被 bèi construction in Italian learners' L2 Chinese: A preliminary study based on experimental data (with Alessia Iurato). VII Edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics, promoted by the Italian Association of Chinese Linguistics (AILC). Sept. 9-10, University of Bergamo, Italy.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

2024: Scientific Committee of the workshop "A digital turn in Humanities: Methodologies and issues", March 12-13, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

2024: Scientific Committee of the PhD Symposium “Metaphors: Conceptualising Horizons of Meaning”, Febr. 26-28, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

OTHER LECTURES

2024: "Automatic Semantic Tagging: Testing the Accuracy in a Chinese Corpus". A digital turn in Humanities: Methodologies and issues, March 12-13, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

RESEARCH GROUPS

2023-ongoing: member of the ecolinguistic cluster of Lab on Area studies for Sustainability Transformations (LAST), coordinated by Prof. Dr. Daniele Brombal. 

MEMBERSHIPS IN ASSOCIATIONS

EACL (European Association of Chinese Linguistics), since 2024

AISC (Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi [Italian Association fo Chinese Studies]), since 2023

AILC (Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Cinese [Italian Association of Chinese Linguistics]), since 2022

IEA (the International Ecolinguistics Association), since 2022

EACS (European Association of Chinese Studies), since 2022

ACADEMIC DUTIES

2022-ongoing: Student Representative of the PhD Program in Asian and African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Italian: Native Speaker

English: Advanced

Mandarin Chinese: Advanced

Cantonese: Elementary

German: Elementary

ADDITIONAL TEACHING SKILLS

2020: 120-Hour Master TEFL&TESOL Course