Metalinguistic Awareness: Recomposing Cognitive, Linguistic and Cultural Conflicts: Studies in Honor of Maria Antonietta Pinto

Oreste Floquet is Associate Professor at Sapienza University of Rome, Department of European, American, and Cross-cultural Studies, where he teaches French Linguistics, and Associate Researcher at the Institut de Linguistique Appliquée of Abidjan. His interests are in French phonology and grammatical semantics with a psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic angle in various areas of the French-speaking world. Prof. Floquet has conducted systematic field research in Niger and Côte d’Ivoire to explore the specificities of metalinguistic development in adolescents and young adults.

Sergio Melogno is Associate Professor at “Niccolò Cusano” University of Rome, where he teaches Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Neuropsychology, Developmental Cognitive Psychology, and Social Cognition. Prof. Melogno carries out research and clinical activity at the Department of Developmental and Social Psychology and of Human Neuroscience at Sapienza University of Rome. His works bear on language and cognitive competencies in typical and atypical development, with a special focus on figurative language.