Daniela Marzo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Daniela Marzo plays a role.
Articles
2022 Doing remembering as a multimodal accomplishment: On the use of mi ricordo (‘I remember’) in Oral History Interviews Interactional Linguistics 2:1, pp. 110–136 | Article
The present study investigates how remembering is publicly displayed during storytelling in Oral History Interviews with Italian-speaking witnesses of labor camps during WWII. We focus on the use of the first-person indicative mi ricordo (‘I remember’). In this particular narrative genre, mi… read more
2011 Intrinsic or extrinsic motivation? The implications of metaphor- and metonymy-based polysemy for transparency in the lexicon Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden (eds.), pp. 251–268 | Article
This paper is concerned with motivation and transparency in the lexicon. After a theoretical discussion of motivation, the author presents an empirical study that focuses on the motivation of formally simple and complex polysemous Italian words. It is shown that the motivatability of polysemous… read more
2008 What is iconic about polysemy? A contribution to research on diagrammatic Transparency Naturalness and Iconicity in Language, Willems, Klaas and Ludovic De Cuypere (eds.), pp. 167–187 | Article
This paper is a contribution to research on iconicity and diagrammatic transparency in the lexicon. The focus lies on the potential contribution of polysemy to iconicity that is generally neglected by iconicity researchers. The three Peircean icon types of images, diagrams and metaphors are… read more
2007 A two-dimensional approach to the study of motivation in lexical typology and its first application to French high-frequency vocabulary Studies in Language 31:2, pp. 259–291 | Article
‘Morphological’ and ‘semantic’ motivation are not just two types (Ullmann 1966), but two interrelated dimensions of the problem of lexical motivation. For instance, Fr. poire ‘pear’ — poirier ‘pear-tree’ expresses the same cognitive relation as the polysemy of Russ. gruša, and, at the same time,… read more