Giuseppe Balirano

Paul Sambre is Assistant Professor of discourse studies and Italian linguistics at the University of Leuven,
Belgium. His research is at the intersection of cognitive linguistics, social semiotics, critical discourse studies, poststructuralist philosophy and phenomenology. His current focus is on multimodal grammar and genres, in relation to embodiment, futurity, instrumental causality and the multimodal representation of Belgium and Italy in Europe. He published in journals as Cognitive Semiotics, Journal of Pragmatics, Langages, Gesprächsforschung, Incontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani and Civiltà Italiana. He is a member of the editorial board of Cognitextes, Constructions and Frames and ITL-International Journal of Applied Linguistics.