Valentina Pagliai
Valentina Pagliai is currently a Fellow at the Remarque Institute of New York University. She has conducted research on verbal duels in Italy as well as on racialization and discourse in Europe. Her publications include “Poetic Dialogues: Performance and Politics in the Tuscan Contrasto” (Ethnology, 2002), “Lands I Came to Sing: Negotiating Identities and Places in the Tuscan Contrasto” (Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings, 2003), and “Singing Gender: Contested Discourses of Womanhood in Tuscan-Italian Verbal Art,” co-authored with B. Bocast (Pragmatics, 2005).
Articles by Valentina Pagliai
The Art of Dueling with Words: Toward a New Understanding of Verbal Duels across the World
Volume 24, Issue 1 (March, 2009)
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