Annalisa Baicchi is Chair of English Linguisticsat the University of Genova, Italy. Her researchinterests include cognitive linguistics, constructiongrammar, inferential pragmatics, contrastivelinguistics, and acquisitional linguistics,investigated from the perspective of complexitytheories.Stefania Biscetti is Assistant Professor of EnglishLinguistics at the University of L’Aquila,Italy. Her research activity is mainly aimed atidentifying the impact of culture and cognitionon language use. Her research interests includelinguistic pragmatics and semantics, cognitivelinguistics, contrastive linguistics, approachedboth synchronically and diachronically.