Sara Gesuato

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sara Gesuato plays a role.

Articles

This study investigates the use of lexical backchannels in the discourse of L2 English users sitting Trinity College London’s Graded Examinations in Spoken English (GESE). It is based on the Trinity Lancaster Corpus Sample and explores the language produced during the Discussion, Conversation and… read more
Gesuato, Sara 2011 Structure, content and functions of calls for conference abstractsResearching Specialized Languages, Bhatia, Vijay, Purificación Sánchez and Pascual Pérez-Paredes (eds.), pp. 47–70 | Article
This paper examines the pragmatic functions and structural organisation of 100 Calls for Conference Abstracts (CfCAs) in Biology, Computing, History and Linguistics. These goal-oriented communicative acts focus on the representation-dissemination of disciplinary values and goals. They comprise the… read more
Gesuato, Sara 2008 Co-text of use of forty English nominal premodifiers: Singular and plural variants25th Lexis and Grammar Conference, Mirto, Ignazio Mauro (ed.), pp. 143–157 | Article
This paper examines the co-text of use of the singular and plural variants of 40 nouns used as modifiers in compounds with two lexical bases on the basis of over 6,000 compounds collected from a general corpus of English. The data shows that, for the lexemes considered, plural premodification… read more