Emeline Janine D is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics within the Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society at the University of Italian Switzerland (USI), funded by a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (TMPFP1_217350). She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), supervised by Prof. B. De Cock, with doctoral research supported by the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) and Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Her expertise spans: Functional and contrastive corpus-based linguistics Syntax-pragmatics-argumentation interfaces Agent-defocusing constructions across languages Linguistic representation in sustainable fashion controversies Dr. D's current SNSF project investigates how agentivity framing (including agent omission) reflects argumentative strategies in fashion discourse, leveraging corpus methodologies to analyze meaning construction in specialized communicative settings. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with real-world socio-discursive phenomena. Key recognitions include: SNSF Postdoctoral Fellowship F.R.S.-FNRS Doctoral Fellowship Wallonia-Brussels Federation Doctoral Fellowship Based in USI's Main Building (Office 251), she contributes to the institute's research agenda under Directors Prof. Sara Greco and Prof. Andrea Rocci, with active engagement in linguistic theory development and interdisciplinary discourse analysis.






