Savina Raynaud has been full professor of Philosophy and Theory of Language since 1994 and called by the Università Cattolica del S. Cuore in Milan in 1995. She teaches Semantics and Ontologies and Language Sciences; has been president of the Società di Filosofia del Linguaggio (2004-08); has founded a Research Centre in Computational Linguistics (CIRCSE) and a network for the History of Linguistic and Semiotic Thought (CISPELS).
Maria 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 interests 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.
