Sara Greco

Sara Greco is a Full Professor of Argumentation at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and serves as Director of the Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics (IALS). She is President of the Swiss Society for Linguistics and Chair of the European Conference on Argumentation (ECA). Her research focuses on argumentation as a tool for conflict resolution, particularly in interpersonal and public controversies, digital activism, children's reasoning, and migration studies.

• Ph.D., 2009

Greco leads the empirical working group within the European COST Action on Public Policy Argumentation and directs Swiss National Science Foundation (FNS) projects on reframing in mediation and children's argumentation. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges linguistics, psychology, and semiotics, with affiliations at the University of Neuchâtel and past visiting roles at University College London and the University of Surrey.

Her recent publications examine collaborative argumentation in urban citizenship, digital activism in sustainable fashion, children's argumentation in educational contexts, and migrants' inner dialogue. She employs pragma-dialectical frameworks and critical discourse analysis, emphasizing contextual frames and emotional dynamics in mediation.

• Key grants: Swiss National Science Foundation (FNS), European COST Action
• Current affiliations: USI (Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society), Institute of Psychology and Education (University of Neuchâtel)