Federica Cominetti is post-doc researcher of Linguistics at Roma Tre University and professor of Applied Linguistics at Unicollege SSML. Her main research interests are in the fields of general linguistics, Chinese linguistics, corpus linguistics, second language teaching and acquisition. She is part of the oppp.it (Osservatorio Permanente sulla Pubblicità e la Propaganda) group and currently in charge of the building of the IMPAQTS corpus of Italian political speeches.