Chiara Degano is associate professor of English Language and Translation at Roma Tre University, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, where she has worked since 2018. She previously worked at Roma Tor Vergata and Milan University, where in 2003 she earned her PhD in English Linguistics.
Her research interests are framed in Discourse Analysis and focus in particular on the rhetorical-argumentative aspects of discourse. From this perspective, she has explored different genres of institutional discourse, among which editorials and electoral campaigns in the UK and US context. Within this frame she has recently turned attention to the construction of agreement as a basis for persuasion.
This research perspective is often integrated with the methodological tools of Corpus Linguistics, with a view to anchoring observations to data, both through a qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Other strands of research concern on the one hand specialised discourse proper (maily legal) and creative texts on the other, with a focus for the latter on translation and stylistics.
She has published three monographs: Discorsi di guerra: il prologo del conflitto iracheno nella stampa britannica e italiana (2008); Discourse Analysis, Argumentation Theory and Corpus Linguistics. An integrated Approach (2012); Agreement in Argumentation. A Discursive Perspective (2022, with F. Santulli).
She sits on the editorial board of the journal Argumentation in Context (Benjamins), and is member of Ilias - International Learned Institute for Argumentation Studies, and CLAVIER - Corpus and Language Variation in English Research Group.