SALA Michele

Michele Sala, PhD (University of Bergamo), MA (Youngstown State University, Ohio), is an associate professor in English Language and Translation at the University of Bergamo (Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures), where he teaches English linguistics and translation at graduate and undergraduate level. He is a member of AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica), CERLIS (Centro di Ricerca sui Linguaggi Specialistici), CLAVIER (Corpus and Language Variation in English Research Group) and a member of the scientific and editorial board of the CERLIS Series (international peer-reviewed volumes on specialized languages) and the CERLIS Journal. His research activity deals with language for specific purposes and, more specifically, the application of genre and discourse analytical methods to a corpus-based study of specialized texts in the domain of academic research, law, medicine and applied linguistics (Communicating English in Specialised Domain. A Festschrift for Maurizio Gotti [co-edited with S.M. Maci and C. Spinzi]; Scholarly Pathways. Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia [co-edited with M. Gotti and S.M. Maci]; Representing and Redefining Specialised Knowledge: Variety in LSP [co-edited with S.M Maci]); The Language of Medicine: Science, Practice and Academia [co-edited with M. Gotti and S.M. Maci]; Insights into Medical Communication [co-edited with M. Gotti and S.M. Maci])). His recent interests concern argumentative and persuasive discourses across domains and cultures (English Language across Contexts, Media and Modes [co-authored with S. Consonni], Genre Variation in Academic Communication. Emerging Disciplinary Trends, [co-edited with S.M. Maci]), translation (Gender, Language and Translation. Representations and Transcodifications [editor]) and digital humanities (Corpus Linguistics and Translation Tools for Digital Humanities [co-edited with S.M. Maci]). (January 2026)