Marianna Gracheva
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marianna Gracheva is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2542-9477 | E‑ISSN 2542‑9485
Title
Situational Context in Register Studies
Edited by Marianna Gracheva and Larissa Goulart
Special issue of Register Studies 7:2 (2025) v, 219 pp.
2026 Situations of language use: Situations of Language Use Situational Context in Register Studies, Gracheva, Marianna and Larissa Goulart (eds.), pp. 161–172 | Introduction
2025 Does grammatical aspect convey pragmatic meaning? The case of believe in the progressive aspect Applied Pragmatics 7:1, pp. 29–55 | Article
The study investigates the stance marker believe in the progressive aspect, challenging the view established in the ESL community that state verbs are used exclusively in the simple aspect and an overall neglect of the pragmatic meaning associated with different structural forms. The study shows… read more
2023 The role of situation in individual style: A powerful confounding variable or a new dimension? The case of American presidential discourse Register Studies 5:2, pp. 205–239 | Article
The study adopts a cross-register approach to style, examining style with relation to the situation of use. While register tends to be avoided by style research as a confounding variable, this investigation of the styles of four American presidents in memoirs, official letters, and public… read more
2022 Style of creative nonfiction: A multidimensional analysis of literary essays Scientific Study of Literature 12:1/2, pp. 49–82 | Article
The study examines author style within underlying patterns of variation in nonfiction essays. The study employs corpus linguistic methodology, building on research on style in fiction (Biber & Finegan, 1994; Biber, 2008b; Egbert, 2012), applies a multidimensional analysis to a corpus of… read more