Andrea Rocci

Andrea Rocci is a Full Professor of Linguistic Sciences at the University of Italian Switzerland, where he serves as Deputy Director of the Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics (IALS). He also co-directs the Master of European Studies in Investor Relations and Financial Communication (ESIR), a collaborative program with the Catholic University of Milan.

• Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society
• Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics (IALS)

Rocci's research bridges argumentation theory, pragmatics, and discourse analysis, with a focus on multimodal communication in journalism, corporate contexts, and financial markets. His work explores modal/evidential structures, concession dynamics, and argumentation mining for analyzing large corpora in debates on climate change and AI.

He has directed multiple Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)-funded projects and authored/edited key publications including Modality in Argumentation (Springer, 2017) and Verbal Communication (De Gruyter, 2016). His expertise spans pragmatics, rhetoric, and linguistic semiotics.