Publications

Discourses of Student Success: Language, Class, and Social Personae in Italian Secondary Schools (Routledge, 2021)

Interview about my book: https://campanthropology.org/2022/09/19/andrea-leone-pizzighella/

Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2018). Narratives of Becoming: Social Personae and School Choice in the Italian School System. Working Papers in Educational Linguistics 33, 73-97. https://repository.upenn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/df8a1852-0252-4a47-b992-bc082c29a12b/content
Leone-Pizzighella, A.R. (2022). Displaying double-voiced expertise in a “difficult” class. Linguistics and Education, 72, 101033. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0898589822000225

Citizen sociolinguistics:

Rymes, B. & Leone, A. R. (2014). Citizen Sociolinguistics: New Media Methodology for Understanding Language and Social Life. Working Papers in Educational Linguistics 29(2), 25-43. https://wpel.gse.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/29.2RymesandLeone.pdf
Rymes, B. & Leone, A. R. (2017). Citizen Sociolinguistics: A New Media Methodology for Language and Social Life. In S. Blum (Ed.), Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication, pp. 596-610. Oxford University Press.
Rymes, B., Aneja, G., Leone-Pizzighella, A. R., Lewis, M., & Moore, R. (2017). Citizen Sociolinguistics: A New Media Methodology for Understanding Language and Social Life. In A. De Fina, D. Ikizoglu, & J. Wegner (Eds.) Diversity and Super-Diversity: Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives. Georgetown University Press.
Leone-Pizzighella, A. & Rymes, B. (2017). Gathering everyday metacommentary: A methodology to counteract institutional erasure. Language & Communication 59, 53-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2017.02.001
Rymes, B. & Leone-Pizzighella, A. (2018). YouTube-based accent challenge narratives: Web 2.0 as a context for studying the social value of accent. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 250, 137-163. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2017-0058
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2021). The Evolution of -splain Terms and the Spirit of Citizen Sociolinguistics: A Note on Methods. Language Under Discussion, 6(1), 30-37. https://journals.helsinki.fi/lud/article/view/1733/1578

"Engaging in citizen sociolinguistics ... promises to change sociolinguistic research, classroom interactions and everyday encounters to be more exploratory, creative and non-judgmental." (Rymes & Leone, 2014)

"Il linguaggio informale è un po’ come parlare in brutta copia."
- Teacher, 2023

Academic discourse socialization:

Leone-Pizzighella, A.R., Bienati, A., Frey, J.C. (2024). Discourse markers in the curricularization of ‘academic language’: A mixed-methods analysis of tipo and praticamente in Italian secondary schools. In L. Cirillo and R. Nodari (Eds.), Studi AItLA Series Contesti, pratiche, e risorse della comunicazione multimodale (Multimodal communication: contexts, practices, resources).
Rymes, B. & Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2020). Making the Familiar Change: Language Socialization via Contrapuntal Interaction in a US High School Language Arts Class. In M. Burdelski & K. Howard (Eds.) Language Socialization in Classrooms: Culture, interaction, and language development, pp. 132-157. Cambridge University Press.

Language and education policy:

Leone, A. R. (2015). Outlooks in Italy: CLIL as a Language Education Policy. Working Papers in Educational Linguistics 30(1), 45-65.
Gruber M, Platzgummer V, Leone-Pizzighella AR, Thoma N, Crepaz K, Notarnicola C, Bernhard von Schlechtleitner AL (2024). Bildung und Wissenschaft / Istruzione e Scienza. In A. Tomaselli, K. Crepaz, & M. Gruber (Eds.), Gender Report Südtirol 2024 (pp. 51-61). Eurac Research. https://doi.org/10.57749/EEH8-3F92
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2025). The ideation, naturalization, and invisibilization of Discourses in Italy’s tracked secondary education: a critical scalar account. Multilingua. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/multi-2024-0224/html
Leone-Pizzighella, A.R. & Thoma, N. (2025). Transitional educational policies and practices in Italy and Austria. Zeitschrift für erziehungswissenschaftliche Migrationsforschung (ZeM).

“Learning is to a large extent the cultural product of societies that assumed the future would be much like the past, and yet it is used as an educational food in a society where change is the rule, not the exception”

(John Dewey, 1938)

Language in the classroom:

Leone, A. R. (2015). What Might the Language Classroom Look Like through an Anthropological Lens? In Language Teaching Insights from Other Fields: Psychology, Business, Brain Science, and More, pp. 49–56. Alexandria, VA: TESOL International Association.
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2023). Cultivating communicative repertoire awareness via participatory engagement with middle school teachers. MOSAIC: The Journal for Language Teachers, 14(1), 380-388. https://doi.org/10.69117/MOSAIC.14.1.23.032
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. & Telser, E. (2025). The circulation of language ideologies in professional and pedagogical spaces: The case of German, Germans, and Germanness in South Tyrol. Ethnography & Education, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2025.2505885
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (in press). Identifying and being identified: Peer language policing and cries of racism in middle school. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 24(6).

Data ethics and data management:

Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2023). Data Management Plan – STEMCo v1.2.0. https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.10406517
Schönthaler, S., Leone-Pizzighella, A.R., Mitterhofer, J. (accepted). What does multilingual research show us about research ethics? Examples and challenges from the field. Social Inclusion.

Italian languages, dialects, and accents:

Leone, A. R. (2014). Ideologies of Personhood: A Citizen Sociolinguistic Case Study of the Roman Dialect. Working Papers in Educational Linguistics 29(2), 81-105. https://repository.upenn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/966de907-48f3-4c77-82f3-d8457ae8e782/content
Leone-Pizzighella, A. R. (2016). Enregistering Inglaliano via Parodic Metacommentary. King’s College Working Papers in Urban Languages and Literacies, n. 196. https://wpull.org/product/wp196-enregistering-inglaliano-via-parodic-metacommentary/
Leone-Pizzighella, A.R. (2019). Hyperlocal Language Revalorization in Verona, Italy. Multilingua 38(1), 69-91. https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2017-0127

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