Sara Gesuato
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sara Gesuato plays a role.
Articles
Holding up one’s end of the conversation in spoken English: Lexical backchannels in L2 examination discourse Corpus-based Approaches to Spoken L2 Production: Evidence from the Trinity Lancaster Corpus, Brezina, Vaclav, Dana Gablasova and Tony McEnery (eds.), pp. 231–252 | Article
2019 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
Structure, content and functions of calls for conference abstracts Researching Specialized Languages, Bhatia, Vijay, Purificación Sánchez and Pascual Pérez-Paredes (eds.), pp. 47–70 | Article
2011 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
Co-text of use of forty English nominal premodifiers: Singular and plural variants 25th Lexis and Grammar Conference, Mirto, Ignazio Mauro (ed.), pp. 143–157 | Article
2008 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