Laura Locatelli
List of John Benjamins publications in which Laura Locatelli is involved.
Articles
2025 The language of ESG sustainability reports of Chinese listed companies: A preliminary corpus-assisted keyword analysis from an ecolinguistic perspective Chinese Language and Discourse: Online-First Articles | Article
Amid increasing global environmental concerns, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting has become standard practice for listed companies; few studies, however, analyzed Chinese ESG reports from an ecolinguistic perspective. This study employs quantitative corpus-assisted… read more
2025 The acquisition of the Chinese 被 bèi passive construction by L1 Italian learners: Triangulating experimental and introspective data Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 60:2, pp. 135–167 | Article
This study investigates the L2 acquisition of the Chinese 被
bèi passive construction (BPC) by L1 Italian learners, focusing on four challenging features: the acceptability of the post-verbal patient, the unacceptability of the post-verbal agent, and the incompatibility with stative and… read more
The passive voice of subjective experience and objective response: A corpus-assisted analysis of the semantic-pragmatic interface of the Chinese 遭 zāo , 受 shòu , and 得到 dédào constructions International Journal of Corpus Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
The passive voice in Chinese is the focus of extensive research seeking to understand its diverse discourse functions. Adopting a corpus-assisted approach, this paper brings attention to an underexplored category of passives — Chinese lexical passive constructions (LPCs) — and analyzes the… read more