Gianluca Pontrandolfo

Gianluca Pontrandolfo is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Trieste, Department of Legal Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies (IUSLIT). He holds a PhD in Translation and Interpreting Studies and specializes in legal linguistics, corpus-based analysis of judicial language, and specialized translation.

His main research interests include:

• Legal terminology and phraseology
• Specialised discourse and genres applied to translation studies
• Corpus linguistics methodologies
• Text linguistics in judicial contexts
• Translation training approaches

Pontrandolfo's scholarly work demonstrates a strong focus on cross-linguistic analysis of legal language, particularly between Spanish and Italian systems. His research employs corpus linguistics to examine phraseological patterns in judicial discourse, legal terminology, and specialized translation challenges. His publications reveal expertise in analyzing sentence adverbs, gerunds, metaphorical expressions, and discourse markers within legal contexts across multiple languages.

He actively contributes to several research networks:

• EDAP group (Studies on Professional Academic Discourse, University of Barcelona)
• CLAVIER (Corpus and Language Variation in English Research Group, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia)
• Interdisciplinary Research Group CAL² (Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics)

His editorial work includes co-editing significant volumes such as 'Phraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings' (2018) and the special issue 'Law in Transfer and Translation' (2017), demonstrating leadership in advancing methodological approaches in legal linguistics and translation studies.