Dr FABIO I. M. POPPI

Biography

Dr Fabio I. M. Poppi received a BSc and MSc in Social Psychology from the University of Trieste (Italy) and a MA in Sociocultural Linguistics from Goldsmiths College, University of London (United Kingdom). In 2017, he completed his PhD in Linguistics and Communication studies at the UEA (United Kingdom) with a thesis on Multimodal Metaphors and Ideology. From 2019, Dr Poppi works as Associate Professor at Sechenov University in the Institute of Linguistics and Intercultural Сommunication.

Research Interests

Social cognition; Language and ideology; Discourse studies and narrative analysis; Art and film studies; Pragmatics and multimodal communication; Social media interaction

Teaching

Dr Poppi teaches course on Methods of Linguistic Research in English in the Institute of Linguistics and Intercultural Сommunication.

Key Publications

Poppi F. I. M., Kravanja P. (2019) Actiones secundum fidei: Antithesis and metaphoric conceptualization in Banksy’s graffiti art. Metaphor and the Social World. 9(1), 83 – 106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.17021.pop

Dynel M., Poppi F. I. M. (2019) Risum teneatis amici?: The socio-pragmatics of RoastMe humour. Journal of Pragmatics. 139 (2019), 1-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.10.010

Poppi F. I. M., Urios-Aparisi E. (2019) De corporibus humanis: Ideology and metaphor in the representation of HUMAN BODY domain in cinema. Metaphor & Symbol. 33(4), 295-314. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2018.1549838

Poppi F. I. M. (2018) Machina ex homine, homo ex machina: Metaphor and ideology in Shinya Tsukamoto's ‘Tetsuo: The Iron Man’. Metaphor and the Social World. 8 (2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.17003.pop

Poppi F. I., & Gattinara P. C. (2018) Aliud pro alio: Context and narratives within a neo-Nazi community of practice. Journal of Language and Politics. 17 (4), 1-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.17014.pop