The research will revolve around the relationship between language, communication and the comprehension of issues related to climate change and sustainability. Topics will encompass key linguistic patterns characterizing climate change communication, with a special focus on metaphor and other pragmatic uses of language. Methodologies will include psycho/neurolinguistic investigations to disentangle the processing costs and benefits associated to the targeted expressions, as well as computational approaches aiming at building a figurative archive including the characterization of items along multiple dimensions. Theoretically, the project will ground in pragmatics, as well as in theories of situated and multimodal cognition.

Knowledge of linguistics and pragmatics and as-native knowledge of Italian are requested. Previous experience in psycho/neurolinguistics and/or computational linguistics investigations is a plus.

Laboratory of Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics (NEP) at IUSS, devoted to the study of the neurocognitive correlates of language processing in typical and atypical conditions and across the lifespan, with a focus on pragmatics and metaphor, equipped with EEG facilities. The team includes the PI, postdoctoral fellows and other PhD students, in an interdisciplinary and lively research environment.