Federica Barbieri
List of John Benjamins publications for which Federica Barbieri plays a role.
Articles
2018 Chapter 10. I don’t want to and don’t get me wrong: Lexical bundles as a window to subjectivity and intersubjectivity in American blogs Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics, Kopaczyk, Joanna and Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.), pp. 251–276 | Chapter
Blogs are one of the most prominent genres of Web 2.0; yet, research on their linguistic characteristics is limited. This study contributes to addressing this research gap by investigating lexical bundles in American blogs. Lexical bundles are units of discourse structure which can reveal a great… read more
2009 Quotative be like in American English: Ephemeral or here to stay? English World-Wide 30:1, pp. 68–90 | Article
This article investigates quotative use in American English in apparent and real time. The use of quotative be like, go and say in a corpus of conversation in American English dating 2004 / 2005 is compared with use in a similar corpus dating 1995 / 1996 (Barbieri 2007). Findings show that in… read more
2007 Older men and younger women: A corpus-based study of quotative use in American English English World-Wide 28:1, pp. 23–45 | Article
This article investigates the effect of the external variables speaker age and sex on the use of the quotatives be like, go, be all, and say in present-day spoken American English. The study is based on a large computerized corpus of naturally-occurring conversation collected from a wide range of… read more