RESUME

Elisabetta Gola is Full Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Cagliari, where she teaches different courses among which Semiotics of new media and Public speaking.

Her research interests are focused on cognitive semantics, pragmatics of communication, and natural language processing, with a focus on metaphors and other non-literal usages of language in all the mental processes that are involved in communication and comprehension. More recent research interests include promotion of cultural heritage in digital media, health communication, social network communication and language. On these topics she coordinated national and international projects and published several papers and book.
Among her most recent publications: Che cos’è una metafora (together with F. Ervas, Carocci, 2016), Public speaking. Il ritorno della comunicazione vocale nell'era della comunicazione digitale (together with P. Mottola, Meltemi, 2019), Scripta manent. Dieci lezioni sulla scrittura argomentativa (together with F. Ervas e V. Melis, Carocci, 2021), Co-design of an Online Campaign: Languages, Images and Participation for an Inclusive Community (together with G.
Tumminelli, M. Macaluso, M. Siino, A. Volterrani, Cambridge 2022).

She is head of the e-learning degree program in Communication Sciences and Vice-rector for Communication and image.