Dr Valentina Concu is Lecturer and Language Coordinator for Italian at Leuphana University (Germany) and Regional Representative for South and Southeast Europe. She completed her PhD in Linguistics at Purdue University (USA). Her research spans phonetics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics, with a particular focus on interpersonal meaning, mitigation, and the temporal organization of speech. She has published in journals including Intercultural Pragmatics , Journal of Hi
