Person
Researcher, Educational Developer
- Lund University Humanities Lab
Senior Lecturer
- Italian Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail maria.grazianohumlab.luse
Phone +46 46 222 08 18
Room SOL:L400c
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I am a researcher and educational developer at the Humanities Lab at Lund University. Prior to this, I was a postdoc at the University of Alberta, Canada, that I joined after receiving a double PhD in Linguistics from SESA (European School of Advanced Studies) at the University “Suor Orsola Benincasa” (Napoli-Italy) and Université Stendhal (Grenoble-France).
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
My main research interest concerns the study of gesture and its relation to spoken language from a developmental and a crosslinguistic perspective.
Focusing on these lines of investigations, I studied how the development of the ability to use gestures with different functions is linked to the development of textual and pragmatic abilities. I also carried out a research on the temporal coordination between gesture and speech in narrative discourse produced by bilingual and monolingual adult speakers, together with Elena Nicoladis and Paula Marentette. Moreover, I have recently conducted a study focusing on gesture production in relation to speech fluency in child and adult language learners' discourse, in collaboration with Marianne Gullberg.
My current work centers on the comparison of spoken and gestural behaviors across cultures and languages, targeting in particular narrative discourse produced by Italian and Swedish adult speakers.
I am also interested in first language acquisition and I am investigating cohesion in narrative discourse in Italian children.
Articles (4)
- Graziano, M., Nicoladis, E. & Marentette, P. (2020). How referential gestures align with speech: evidence from monolingual and bilingual speakers. Language Learning, 70, 266-304. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Louhema, K., Zlatev, J., Graziano, M. & van de Weijer, J. (2019). Translating from monosemiotic to polysemiotic narratives : A study of Finnish speech and gestures. Sign Systems Studies, 47, 480-525. Tartu University Press.
- Graziano, M. & Gullberg, M. (2018). When speech stops, gesture stops : Evidence from crosslinguistic and developmental comparisons. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Graziano, M. (2010). Le développement des gestes pragmatiques et leur relation avec le développement de la compétence textuelle chez l’enfant âgé de 4 à 10 ans. Lidil, 113-138. Grenoble : Laboratoire LIDILEM.
Book chapters (4)
- Graziano, M. (2014). Gestures in Southern Europe : Children's pragmatic gestures in Italy. In Müller, C., Cienki, A., Fricke, E., Ladewig, S., McNeill, D. & Tessendorf, S. (Eds.) Body - Language - Communication : An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction (pp. 1253-1258), 2. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Graziano, M. (2014). The development of two pragmatic gestures of the so-called Open Hand Supine family in Italian children. In Seyfeddinipur, M. & Gullberg, M. (Eds.) From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance : Essays in honor of Adam Kendon (pp. 311-330). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Capirci, O., Cristilli, C., De Angelis, V. & Graziano, M. (2011). Learning to use gesture in narratives: developmental trends in formal and semantic gesture competence. In Stam, G. & Ishino, M. (Eds.) Integrating gestures: the interdisciplinary nature of gesture / Gesture studies (pp. 189-200), 4. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Graziano, M., Kendon, A. & Cristilli, C. (2011). ‘Parallel gesturing’ in adult-child conversations. In Stam, G. & Ishino, M. (Eds.) Integrating gestures : the interdisciplinary nature of gesture / Gesture studies (pp. 89-102), 4. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Conference contributions (3)
- Louhema, K., Zlatev, J., Graziano, M. & van de Weijer, J. (2018). Translating from unisemiotic to polysemiotic narratives : A study of Finnish speech and gestures.
- Graziano, M. & Gullberg, M. (2013). Gesture production and speech fluency in competent speakers and language learners. [Host publication title missing]. Tilburg University.
- Cristilli, C., Capirci, O. & Graziano, M. (2010). Le funzioni anaforiche della gestualità nel racconto dei bambini. In Pettorino, M., Giannini, A. & Dovetto, F. M. (Eds.) La comunicazione parlata 3 : Atti del congresso internazionale, Vol. I (pp. 307-339), 3. Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Napoli.
Supervision at Lund University (1)
Teaching
Other tasks and qualifications
Tasks
2017-at present. Coordinator of the Language Acquisition Seminar (LAS), in collaboration with Petra Bernardini.
2019-at present. BA supervision and examination, Örebnro University.
2018-at present. Teaching, Kristianstad Högskola.
2015 - at present. Teaching, BA supervision and examination, Malmö University.
2012-at present. Teaching in Italian Studies (online and on campus), Lund University.
Qualifications and prizes
2018-2022. Qualification as Assistant Professor /Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, issued by Conseil National des Universités (CNU) France (Qualification comme maître de conference en science du langage).
2010-2014. Qualification as Assistant Professor /Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, issued by Conseil National des Universités (CNU) France (Qualification comme maître de conference en science du langage)
2011. Third prize for poster presentation at the Postdoctoral Fellow Research Day, University of Alberta, Canada.
2009. Scholarship for Short Term Scientific Mission, funded by European Science Foundation (ESF): Cost Action, spent at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Researcher, Educational Developer
- Lund University Humanities Lab
Senior Lecturer
- Italian Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail maria.grazianohumlab.luse
Phone +46 46 222 08 18
Room SOL:L400c
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20