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  1. Clinicians’ use of metaphoric language in conversations with families of critically ill patients in the intensive care unit

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, August 2025, Elsevier

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  2. Understanding the impact of figurative language in medical discourse: Toward a dialogic approach in healthcare communication

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, August 2025, Elsevier

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  3. Expression of patient and caregiver uncertainty in view of decision-making in online health communities

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, May 2025, Elsevier

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  4. Metaphorical Language: Hesse’s Revolutionary Approach to Metaphor

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  5. Communication, understanding and engagement of patients with pancreatic cancer at time of diagnosis

    Article • Pancreatology, February 2024, Elsevier

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  6. Effectiveness of patients’ involvement in a medical and nursing pain education programme: a protocol for an open-label randomised controlled trial including qualitative data

    Article • BMJ Open, January 2024, BMJ

    Matías Eduardo Díaz Crescitelli, Maria Grazia Rossi

  7. Introduction. Fostering interdisciplinary knowledge translation at the interface between healthcare communication and pragmatics

    Article • November 2023, John Benjamins

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  8. A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare

    Article • October 2023, John Benjamins

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  9. A Community-Based Participatory Framework to Co-Develop Patient Education Materials (PEMs) for Rare Diseases: A Model Transferable across Diseases

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, January 2023, MDPI AG

    Maria Grazia Rossi, Paula Videira

  10. The Argumentative Potential of Doubt: From Legitimate Concerns to Conspiracy Theories About COVID-19 Vaccines

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  11. Dialogical functions of metaphors in medical interactions

    Article • Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Discourse Communication Studies, November 2021, De Gruyter

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  12. The Communicative Functions of Metaphors Between Explanation and Persuasion

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  13. Considering Mono- and Multilingual Interactions on a Continuum: An Analysis of Interactions in Medical Settings

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  14. Metaphors and problematic understanding in chronic care communication

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, October 2019, Elsevier

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  15. Coding Problematic Understanding in Patient–provider Interactions

    Article • Health Communication, August 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Fabrizio Macagno, Maria Grazia Rossi

  16. Express rather than impress: Benefits of the rEACH summer school for early-career researchers in the field of health communication

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, February 2019, Elsevier

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  17. Argumentation as a Bridge Between Metaphor and Reasoning

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesca Ervas, Maria Grazia Rossi

  18. The ActiveAgeing Mobile App for Diabetes Self-management: First Adherence Data and Analysis of Patients’ in-App Notes

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  19. Social Robots

    Article • July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  20. Fertilizing a Patient Engagement Ecosystem to Innovate Healthcare: Toward the First Italian Consensus Conference on Patient Engagement

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, June 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Livio Provenzi, Maria Grazia Rossi

  21. mHealth for diabetes support: a systematic review of apps available on the Italian market

    Article • mHealth, May 2017, AME Publishing Company

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  22. Metaphor in Communication, Science and Education

    Article • January 2017, De Gruyter

    Francesca Ervas, Maria Grazia Rossi

  23. L’analisi archeomorfologica delle reti viarie come studio delle dinamiche evolutive del paesaggio. Il caso della bassa pianura veneta tra Padova e Rovigo

    Article • October 2016, VU E-Publishing

    Maria Grazia Rossi

  24. Weak Educational Components in mHealth Devices for Diabetes Support Available on the Italian Market

    Article • Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Maria Grazia Rossi, Maria Grazia Rossi

  25. A Philosophical Look at the Uncanny Valley

    Article • January 2014, IOS Press

    Maria Grazia Rossi