Laura Pinnavaia (laura.pinnavaia@unimi.it) is Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Milan. Her research interests in lexicology and lexicography have resulted in the publication of over forty articles, a series of co-edited monographs and three authored monographs: The Italian Borrowings in the OED: A Lexicographic, Linguistic and Cultural Analysis (Bulzoni 2001); Food and Drink Idioms in English: “A Little Bit More Sugar and Lots of Spice” (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018), and Introducing Sociolinguistics: A Glance at the English-speaking Social and Cultural Worlds (Carocci 2023).
