Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe
Edited by Marina Dossena and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 218] 2012. vii, 254 pp.
Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Strategies in Academic Discourse
Edited by Elena Tognini-Bonelli and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 19] 2005. xii, 212 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2013. 10. From letters to guidebooks: Ruskin’s Mornings in Florence. Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from corpus linguistics, Bamford, Julia, Silvia Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani (eds.), pp. 173–184
A concern of Ruskin, guidebook writing, has remained relatively marginal to critical discourse. Yet, he produced a well-known work addressed to travellers to Italy, Mornings in Florence, that can be termed a ‘guidebook’. The paper analyses this text with a view to investigating how heritage sites… read more | Article
2012. An atypical commercial correspondence: Negotiating artefacts and status. Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 105–120
This paper investigates how artefacts and identities are textually constructed in an unpublished nineteenth-century epistolary exchange between the Director of the National Gallery, London, Sir Frederic Burton (1816–1900) and the painter, collector and dealer Charles Fairfax Murray (1849–1919). The… read more | Article
2012. Introduction. Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 1–12
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2008. Two polite speech acts from a diachronic perspective: Aspects of the realisation of requesting and undertaking commitments in the nineteenth-century commercial community. Speech Acts in the History of English, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 115–131
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2005. The economics academic lecture in the nineteenth century: Marshall's Lectures to Women. Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past, Skaffari, Janne, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen and Brita Wårvik (eds.), pp. 95–107
This study investigates the economics lecture from a historical discursive perspective, focusing on the case of Marshall's lectures in Cambridge in 1873. The historical study of academic genres has primarily dealt with the research article and the textbook, while the academic lecture has been… read more | Article
2002. Performative aspects of late medieval English wills. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3:2, pp. 205–227
This paper presents a case study of the fifty earliest English wills in the Court of Probate, London, with a view to contributing towards highlighting the historical development of this legal genre. By analysing these documents from a pragmatic perspective and setting them in a diachronic… read more | Article