Maria Grazia Sindoni, PhD, is Assistant Professor in English Language and Translation at the University of Messina. Her current interests include systemic-functional grammar, multimodal studies, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. She has published a book on Creole studies (Atlantic Books 2006), an introduction to systemic-functional grammar and multimodal studies (Ibis 2011) and edited two books. She has published a numberarticlesin leading journals and is editor of a journal on language teaching and multimedia.