Silvia Bruti

Silvia Bruti is a Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Pisa's Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics. She directs the University Language Centre and researches audiovisual translation, cross-cultural pragmatics, and corpus linguistics. She holds a PhD in English Studies from the University of Pisa.

Research focuses on pragmatic aspects of audiovisual translation, including politeness strategies, conversational routines, dialect representation, and speech act translation in dubbed and subtitled content. Additional interests include corpus-based translation studies, media discourse analysis, and using audiovisual materials in language teaching.

Publications examine diverse topics including impoliteness in translated dialogue, teen language innovation in media, environmental communication for children, and representation of non-standard accents. Research demonstrates consistent methodological approach combining corpus analysis with pragmatic theory.

Professor Bruti has led multiple national research projects on corpus linguistics applications in translation studies and media analysis. She serves on editorial boards of translation studies journals and actively contributes to international scholarly associations.