Nicola Brocca

nicola.brocca [at] gmail.com

Groups

Linguistics

Minorities

Career

2010-2011 Lecturer at Boğazici University and at Yeditepe University (Istanbul)

2007-2009 Lecturer at Heidelberg University (Germany)

2006-2008 Performance Arts Coordinator (Frankfurt. Germany)

Academic Career

2006-2010 PhD in Linguistics. University of Heidelberg

2006: University of Siena. Italian as Foreign Language Didactics

2004-2005 Comparative Linguistics and Cultural Studies,Nantes University, France

2000-2005 B.A.; M.A. Science in Communication, University of Padova (Italy)

Publications

Brocca, Nicola (2011) Semantics of prepositions in Second Language. An analysis about su and sopra on the part of Germans learning Italian. HeiDok: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/12271

Brocca, Nicola (forthcoming) Italian-speaking community in Romania. A sociolinguistic approach.

Brocca, Nicola (2009). Uno studio sulle preposizioni di luogo nell’italiano come L2. Tagungsband der XXX. Romanistentag, Wien, 24-27 September 2007. Der „Spatial Turn“ in der Romanistik: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen seiner Anwendung. 305-325. München: Meidenbauer.

Brocca, Nicola (2008a). Die Verwendung von raumbezogenen Präpositionen in Italienisch als Fremdsprache. In K. Pittner (Ed.), Beiträge zu Sprache und Sprachen 6. Vorträge der 16. Gesus-Tagung in Bochum. München: Lincom Europa.

Brocca, Nicola (2008b). Vi parlo dei Dico. Formazione, grafia, pronuncia e genere di acronimi e sigle. In: Italienisch, 2008/1, 84-95. München: Oldenbourg.

Internships

2005 Center for Italian Studies, Heidelberg (Germany)

2003 Italian Culture Center, Stuttgart (Germany)

2002 “La difesa del Popolo” Weekly Newspaper, Padova (Italy)