Dr. Dario D'Agostino
Dr. Dario D'Agostino
ZHAW
School of Applied Linguistics
Theaterstrasse 15c
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
- Head of the LAIC Lab – Language Accessibility and Inclusive Communication
- Research Associate
- Programme Manager, Doctoral Programme in Applied Linguistics
Focus
- Discourse Analysis / Corpus Linguistics
- Participatory Research
- Accessibility Studies
Teaching
- MA in Language and Communication
- BA in Multilingual Communication
- BA in Language and Integration
- BA in Communication and Media Studies
Education and Continuing education
Education
PhD / Linguistics
University of Zurich | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
09 / 2020 - 07 / 2026
Network
Membership of networks
- Doctoral Programme in Applied Linguistics: Managing Languages, Arguments and Narratives in the Datafied Society (LAND)
- ZHAW Digital Futures Lab
ORCID digital identifier
Social media
Projects
- Participatory Research on Digital Mental Health Discourses / Project leader / ongoing
- Inclusive Digital Citizen Science: a technology-driven applied linguistics project within a disability studies framework / Co-project leader / ongoing
- Accessibility of ZHAW Webpages / Project leader / completed
- Field study: Digital discourse analyses in Switzerland / Team member / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
Dreesen, P. and D'Agostino, D. (2021) 'Darknet und Diskurs : Tabu eines Ortes und Ort für Tabus?', Aptum, 17(2), pp. 173–191. doi: 10.46771/9783967691689_3.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
Carrer, L. et al. (2023) 'A shift in focus from receptive to productive abilities of Easy Language target groups : proposal for an inclusive corpus linguistics study', in 3rd KLAARA Conference – Easy Language and Communication, Leiria, Portugal, 3-7 July 2023.
Other publications
D'Agostino, D., Fuhrmann, B. and Schuler, M. (2023) 'Web accessibility is an absolute must-have', Language matters - Blog für Sprache und Kommunikation. Available at: https://blog.zhaw.ch/languagematters/2023/08/29/web-accessibility/.