New Trends in Applied Phraseology. Introduction

Paola Maria Cotta Ramusino is Full Professor of Russian Language and Linguistics at the University of Milan. She earned a PhD in Slavic Studies from Sapienza University of Rome. Her research focuses on Russian and Slavic linguistics, with particular attention to morphosyntax, lexicon, and phraseology. In this area, she studies phraseological units from a cognitive perspective and within the framework of Construction Grammar, as evidenced by her coordination of the Frame  project (with F. Mollica), numerous national and international publications, the monograph Lexicon and Phraseology in the Post-Revolutionary Decade (2018), and the co-edited volume with F. Mollica Contrastive Phraseology. Languages and Cultures in Comparison (2020). More recently, her work has explored phraseological units as discourse markers and the image component of idiomatic expressions.

Tatsiana Maiko, PhD, is a tenure-track researcher in Slavic Studies at the University of Milan, Italy, where she teaches courses in Russian as a foreign language. Her research focuses on corpus linguistics, phraseology, second language acquisition, and learner corpus research. She is the author of the monograph Support Verb Constructions: A Russian–Italian Contrastive Analysis (2022) and of numerous scholarly articles.

Jekaterina Nikitina is an Associate Professor of English language, translation and linguistics at the University of Milan, where she lectures in linguistic mediation and discursive practices in legal and international settings. Jekaterina has published systematically on the topic of specialised phraseology, dealing with legal discourse and healthcare discourse from a variety of perspectives, including (Corpus-based) Discourse Analysis, (Legal) Translation Studies, Genre studies and knowledge dissemination. She is a member of the Corpus and Language Variation in English Research Group (CLAVIER), the Open Council of Europe Academic Networks (OCEAN), Council of Europe, the International Law and Language Association (ILLA). Her latest monograph is “Human Rights Discourse: Linguistics, Genre and Translation at the European Court of Human Rights” (Routledge, 2025).