Tommaso M Milani

Tommaso M. Milani , Greer Professor and Head of Applied Linguistics, Penn State University, is a critical discourse analyst who is interested in the ways in which power imbalances are (re)produced and/or contested through semiotic means. His main research foci are language ideologies; language policy and planning; linguistic landscape; as well as language, gender, and sexuality. He has published extensively on these topics in international journals and edited volumes. He is co-editor of the...See more

Tommaso M. Milani , Greer Professor and Head of Applied Linguistics, Penn State University, is a critical discourse analyst who is interested in the ways in which power imbalances are (re)produced and/or contested through semiotic means. His main research foci are language ideologies; language policy and planning; linguistic landscape; as well as language, gender, and sexuality. He has published extensively on these topics in international journals and edited volumes. He is co-editor of the journal Language in Society . He will be writing on two articles he has co-authored (with Erez Levon): "Israel as homotopia: Language, space, and vicious belonging" and "Queering multilingualism and politics: Regimes of mobility, citizenship and (in)visibility." See less