Pierfranca Forchini, PhD
Project Director
Although movies are artifacts by nature, investigations of the AMC have revealed that their dialogs
share the same textuality and linguistic features whih characterize face-to-face conversation and
that language learners can improve their spoken competence by actively watching movies.
Starting (1) from these results, (2) from the assumption that spoken language has a primary role in communication
and (3) from the fact that despite its primacy it is rarely included in language classes,
the main idea behind the project is to offer a tool for linguistic scholars to investigate movie discourse and spoken registers
and for language learners/teachers to fill this gap and develop spoken lexico-grammatical competence.
The AMC Project
PIERFRANCA FORCHINI, PhD
Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics
Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (IT)
pierfranca.forchini@unicatt.it
Project Director
AMC-Xplorer Developer (Vision)
CHAIR of the INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC BOARD
Roots and Acknowledgements
The main idea of exploring authentic movie language and assembling movie corpora took root in 2005, when MARIA PAVESI started directing and developing what is now called the Pavia Corpus of Film Dialogue at the University of Pavia (Italy). I would like to express my great esteem for her valuable work and my sincere gratitude for her constant support throughout the years.
I would like to express my immense gratitude and esteem to DOUGLAS BIBER and RANDI REPPEN for offering time, collaboration, and friendship. Douglas Biber’s ideas, methodology and meticulous comments have had a major impact on all my work since I was a visiting scholar at Northern Arizona University (Arizona, USA) in 2008.
Pierfranca Forchini
AMANDA C. MURPHY, PhD
Professor of English Language and Linguistics
Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan and Brescia (IT)
amanda.murphy@unicatt.it
Project Advisor
VICE-CHAIR of the INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC BOARD
FRANCESCA L. SERACINI, PhD
Researcher of English Language and Linguistics
Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (IT)
francesca.seracini@unicatt.it
Project Team Coordinator
MEMBER of the INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC BOARD
VALENTINA MORGANA, PhD
Researcher of English Language and Linguistics
Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (IT)
valentina.morgana@unicatt.it
FRANCESCA POLI, PhD
Adjunct Lecturer
Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (IT)
francesca.poli@unicatt.it
LAURA ANELLI, PhD
Language Instructor
Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (IT)
laura.anelli@unicatt.it
ALESSIO PALMERO APROSIO
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Università di Trento (IT)
Dipartimento di Psicologia e Scienze Cognitive
a.palmeroaprosio@unitn.it
AMC-Xplorer Developer (Execution)
[External Collaborator]
Avv. SILVANA DIBENEDETTO
Criminal and Civil Attorney (ITA)
silvana@avvocatodibenedetto.it
Legal Consultant
[External Collaborator]
The INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC BOARD
The Idea Behind the AMC Project
INTERNAL BOARD of the AMC PROJECT
The role of the internal scientific board is to direct the project, take final decisions, select and coordinate the team, invite and get in contact with the scientific board and advise on scientific and technical aspects.
PIERFRANCA FORCHINI
(AMC Project Director & Chair of the International Scientifc Board)
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan)
AMANDA C. MURPHY
(AMC Project Advisor & Vice-Chair of the International Scientifc Board)
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan and Brescia)
FRANCESCA L. SERACINI
(AMC-Team Coordinator)
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan)
EXTERNAL BOARD of AUTHORITATIVE SCHOLARS
The external scientific board of authoritative scholars includes various prominent academics from disciplinary areas related to research into movie (audio-visual/screen) language, corpus linguistics and multi-dimensional analysis. The role of the board is to advise on scientific and technical aspects and to fortify the AMC scientific base, validating the foundation on which it is built, and help the AMC project establish credibility in the field.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
DOUGLAS BIBER
Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Arizona)
SUSAN CONRAD
Portland State University (Portland, Oregon)
VIVIANA CORTES
Georgia State University (Atlanta, Georgia)
ENIKO CSOMAY
San Diego State University (San Diego, California)
JESSE EGBERT
Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Arizona)
BETHANY GRAY
Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa)
JACK A. HARDY
Oxford College of Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia)
TOVE LARRSON
Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Arizona)
SHELLEY STAPLES
University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona)
RANDI REPPEN
Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Arizona)
UTE RÖMER
Georgia State University (Atlanta, Georgia)
UNITED KINGDOM
SUSAN HUNSTON
University of Birmingham (Birmingham)
MIKE SCOTT
Lexical Analysis Software and Aston University (Birmingham)
PAUL THOMPSON
University of Birmingham (Birmingham)
JORGE DIAZ-CINTAS
University College London (London)
BRAZIL
TONY BERBER-SARDINHA
Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (São Paulo)
MARCIA VEIRANO PINTO
Federal University of São Paulo (São Paulo)
ITALY
MARIA PAVESI
Università degli Studi di Pavia (Pavia)
SILVIA BRUTI
Università di Pisa (Pisa)
GERMANY
MICHAELA MAHLBERG
FAU (Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
University of Birmingham (Birmingham, England)
SPAIN
FREDERIC CHAUME
Universitat Jaume I (Castellón)
AUSTRALIA
MONICA BEDNAREK
The University of Sydney (Sydney)
HONG KONG SAR
ERIC FRIGINAL
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)
The AMC Team
