Giovanni Garofalo

University of Bergamo
Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Comparate
Lingua Spagnola

Piazza Rosate, 2 –ufficio 208

24127 Bergamo

tel *39 035 2052 728

e.mail: giovanni.garofalo@unibg.it

Giovanni Garofalo is a tenured researcher in Spanish at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature of Bergamo. He also teaches legal Translation from Spanish into Italian at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Trieste. After obtaining a degree in Translation (French, English and Spanish) and another in Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish and Modern Greek) from the University of Trieste, he worked as a technical translator and was involved in free-lance translating for the EU. From 1994 until 2004, he was a Translator-Interpreter for the Italian Ministry of the Interior. Main research fields: text linguistics, discourse analysis of legislative texts and judicial genres used in criminal proceedings in Spain and Italy; political language.

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