On classroom discourse:
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2023). “Language Policing in Italian Middle Schools”. Presentation at ECML Languages of Schooling Workshop at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia).
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R., Bienati, A., & Frey, J. C. (2023). Poster: “Socializing the written in the oral: The use of discourse markers by Italian secondary school students.” Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (AItLA). Arezzo, Italy.
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2023). “Language Policing in Italian Secondary Schools.” In. A. R. Leone-Pizzighella (Chair), Policies and Practices of Sociolinguistic “Groupness”: Reflections from Ethnographic Engagement with Schools and Families. Explorations in Ethnography, Language, and Communication (EELC9). London, UK.
Leone-Pizzighella, A.R. (2019). “Strategic performance of schooled expertise within the peer group.” Towson University’s Forging Linguistic Identities Conference. Towson, MD.
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2018). “Performing double-voiced expertise in a ‘difficult’ class.” In S. Braden & A. Leone-Pizzighella (Chairs), Peer Socialization and the Negotiation of Disciplinary Expertise in Classroom Interaction. 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Jose, CA.
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2018). L’interrogazione and the Linguistics of Academic Performance in Italian Secondary Schools. Invited Colloquium at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Italian Studies.
On didactics:
Leone-Pizzighella, A.R., Telser, E. & Zambaldi, A. (2025). “Like us”: Teaching pride, shame, and authenticity in Italian middle schools. 10th Explorations in Ethnography, Language, and Communication. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Leone-Pizzighella, A.R. (2025). “Big-L and small-L language in “linguistic” and “nonlinguistic” subjects”. X Congresso della Società di Didattica delle Lingue e Linguistica Educativa (DILLE): Lingue, territori e contesti: le politiche linguistico-educative oggi. Nostra Signora del Buon Consiglio, Tirana, Albania.
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2023). “Cultivating middle school teachers’ communicative repertoire awareness.” VIII Congresso della Società di Didattica delle Lingue e Linguistica Educativa (DILLE): L’educazione linguistica nella formazione dei docenti. Università per gli Stranieri di Perugia, Italy.
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2020). “Listening Carefully: The student experience as impetus and means of social change.” Explorations in Ethnography, Language, and Communication (EELC8). Oslo, Norway.
Rymes, B., Leone-Pizzighella, A. R., & Zakrzewski, R. (2016). “Citizen Sociolinguistics: Using Social Media with High School Students to Develop Critical Language Awareness”. Ethnography in Education Research Forum. Philadelphia, PA.
Leone, A. R. (2015). To Teacher, from Expert: The Role of Teacher Language in Student Agency and Identity. In B. Rymes (Chair) Rethinking the Relationship between Linguistics and Education. Invited panel at the 60th Conference of the International Linguistics Association. New York, NY.
On "talk about talk" (metacommentary, metapragmatics, enregisterment):
Leone-Pizzighella, A.R. (2025). “‘Dialetto’ in a metapragmatic framework: the complexities of confidenza at school.” Inaugural ELAN Conference “Linguistic Anthropology in Europe: Past, present, futures”. Leiden University, Netherlands.
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2025). “Is there a saturation point for citizen sociolinguistic discourse?” Presentation at the Talk About Talk Workshop hosted by Christian-Albrechts-Universität. Kiel, Germany.
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2021). “Metapragmatic framings of ‘dialetto’ in Italian speech situations.” World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA). Groningen, Netherlands.
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. & Rymes, B. (2015). Gathering Everyday Metacommentary: A Methodology to Counteract Asian Lumping. In S. Perrino & S. Wortham (Chairs) Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion in Migration Politics. 114th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Denver, CO.
On language/education ideologies and policies:
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2022). “Pigeon-holed: The impact of class binaries on education and personhood in Italy.” In L. M. Madsen and A. Larsen (Chairs), Sociolinguistics and societal inequality – Beyond binaries in sociolinguistic knowledge production? Sociolinguistics Symposium 24. Ghent, Belgium.
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2018). “‘Typecasting’ and self-fulfilling prophecies: Everyday metacommentary about schools and students.” In C. Vasquez and B. Rymes (Chairs) Digital Discourse Analysis and Citizen Sociolinguistics. 2018 Georgetown University Round Table. Washington, D.C.
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2017). “Constructing bravura and scolarizzazione in three Italian secondary schools.” International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) Conference: Dialogue, Interaction, and Culture: Multidisciplinary perspectives on language use in everyday life. Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Italy.
On language teaching:
Leone-Pizzighella, A.R. & Nodari, R. (2025). “Raciolinguistic awareness in the plurilingual educator’s toolkit”. International Conference of the European PEP Project: Promoting plurilingual education. Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome.
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2024). “Bilingual Schools in New York City: A short visit to the CUNY Graduate Center / CUNY-NYSIEB Schools and Teachers.” Presentation at the Multilingual Breakfast Series. Eurac Research Institute for Applied Linguistics. Bolzano/Bozen, Italy.
Leone-Pizzighella, A.R. (2017). “Shakespeare nel laboratorio linguistico: ideologie linguistiche nelle scuole superiori italiane.” IV Congresso della Società di Didattica delle Lingue e Linguistica Educativa (DILLE): La didattica delle lingue nel nuovo millennio: le sfide dell’internazionalizzazione. Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy.
Rymes, B. & Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2016). “Language Learners as Citizen Sociolinguists.” Language without Borders: Technology Principles and Practices for Language Educators. Philadelphia, PA.
Bardetti, D., Bruzzese, C., & Leone, A. R. (2012). “And Justice for All: Reflections on a Federal Professional Development Course for Teachers of English Language Learners & Observations of English Language Teaching in Italian High Schools”. Worldwide Forum on Education & Culture. Rome, Italy.
On digital discourse:
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. & Lewis, M.C. (2017). “Buffalaxing, songifying, and parodic subtitling: Applying Goffman to digitally remixed speech events.” In S. Perrino & D. Ludemann (Chairs) Online Talk Matters: Digital Discourse Strategies. 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C.
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2016). “Subtitles as ideological and metalinguistic commentary in Italian YouTube clips.” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics. Orlando, FL.
Leone, A. R. (2015). Ideologies of Romanness: Exploring Social Place and Social Type through Social Media. In B. Rymes (Chair) Citizen Sociolinguistics: A New Media Methodology for Understanding Language and Social Life. Colloquium conducted at Georgetown University Round Table 2015. Washington, D.C.
Leone, A. R. (2014). “Citizen Ideologies of Personhood and Stigmatized Language Varieties: An Internet-Based Case Study of 'the Roman Dialect'”. 113th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C.
Rymes, B. & Leone, A. R. (2014). “Citizen Sociolinguistics and the 'Accent Challenge': Toward a New Sociolinguistic Methodology using Internet-Circulated Social Media”. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 43. Chicago, IL.
On Veneto and South Tyrol:
Leone-Pizzighella, A.R. & Platzgummer, V. (2024). "Race, Language, and Institutional Categories in South Tyrol". Diversity Matters Webinar Series, Eurac Research. Bolzano, Italy.
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2016). Hyperlocal language reclamation in Northern Italy. In S. Perrino & A. Leone-Pizzighella (Chairs) Rethinking Language Revitalization in Contemporary Europe. 115th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Minneapolis, MN.
On research methods, approaches, and epistemologies:
Leone-Pizzighella, A.R. (2025). “Riconoscere e contrastare il narcisismo accademico, le echo chambers e i circoli viziosi della ricerca”. Keynote at the PhD conference What’s Research Got to do with it? Ultime frontiere della ricerca linguistica, inclusione e impatto sociale, hosted by the University of Bologna (Forlì campus).
Platzgummer, V., Leone-Pizzighella, A.R., Telser, E., Stemle, E.W. (2024). “Das ethnographische Datum als Open Science Enigma: Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten aus zwei Projekten.” [The ethnographic datum as Open Science enigma: Challenges and Possibilities from two projects]. Conference on Digitale Methoden und Daten in Ethnografie und qualitativer Forschung. Universität Vechta, Germany.
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R., Platzgummer, V., Stemle, E. W. (2024). Technologische Möglichkeiten und ethische Überlegungen zur Weitergabe audio(visueller) linguistischer Daten [Technological Possibilities and Ethical Considerations for Sharing Audio(visual) Data]. Poster presented at the Methods Fair of the Annual Meeting of the Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS Methodenmesse). Mannheim, Germany.
Platzgummer, V., Bienati, A., Lopopolo, O., & Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2024). La scuola e le altre lingue? Una riflessione epistemologica sugli usi linguistici in contesti scolastici. Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (AItLA). Pavia, Italy.
Leone-Pizzighella, A.R., Bienati, A., & Frey J.C. (2022). “Linguistic ethnography and corpus linguistics: Bringing together two extremes of the qualitative spectrum.” Presentation at SPECK webinar event series. Eurac Research, Bozen-Bolzano.