Studies on Language Norms in Context

Elena Maria Pandolfi is a researcher at the Osservatorio linguistico della Svizzera italiana (OLSI). Her publications cover sociolinguistics, lexicon and morphosyntax, Italian language, multilingualism, language teaching and language policy.Johanna Miecznikowski teaches linguistics at the Università della Svizzera italiana. Her research areas are discourse and conversation analysis, discourse markers, modality, evidentiality, argumentation and multilingualism.Sabine Christopher is a lecturer at the Università della Svizzera italiana and a researcher at the Osservatorio linguistico della Svizzera italiana. Her publications cover multilingualism, sociolinguistics, language teaching, language policy and discourse analysis.Alain Kamber is a professor of French as a foreign language at the Institut de langue et civilisation françaises of the University of Neuchâtel. His research focuses on corpus linguistics, grammar and syntax as well as language teaching from a contrastive perspective and involving new technologies.