摘要：Esterino Adami is a researcher in Engli sh Language and Translation at the University of Turin (Department of Humanities). He has published extensively on Anglophone cul tures, varieties of English (in particular South Asian Englishes), stylistics, sociolinguistics and translation studies. His research interests also extend to the semiotics of comics, intercultural discourse and English-language literacy. He is the author of Rushdie, Kureishi, Syal. Essays in Diaspora (New Delhi 2006), and editor of To a Scholar Sahab. Essays in Honour of Alessandro Monti, with C. Rozzonelli (Alessandria 2011) and Within and Across. Language and Construction of Shifting Identities in Post-Colonial Contexts, with A. Martelli (Alessandria 2012). He is currently working on storytelling devices in diasporic drama and post-colonial creativity in literary and non-literary texts
