Maria Paola TenchiniMaria Paola Tenchini is Researcher of General Linguistics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart) in Brescia, where she teaches courses in General Linguistics and German Linguistics. Her scientific interets focus on the history of linguistics (proto-pragmatics in particular), the semantics of pejoratives, structures and functions of reported speech, word order in German and nonverbal language. Read More Read Less