Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective
Edited by Alessandra Barotto and Simone Mattiola
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 227] 2023. vi, 439 pp.
Alessandra Barotto
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alessandra Barotto plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2024 Chapter 9. Using ambiguity and vagueness to avoid problematic answers: The case of Italian abbastanza Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 208–233 | Chapter
This paper focuses on the use of the Italian adverb abbastanza ‘enough, quite’ when it is used as a stand-alone reply to potentially problematic and face-threatening questions. Despite its positive semantics, in some contexts, this word can be perceived as vague or even ambiguous by speakers, in… read more
2023 Chapter 1. Discourse phenomena in typological perspective: An overview Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective, Barotto, Alessandra and Simone Mattiola (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Chapter
2023 Nominal reduplication in cross-linguistic perspective: From plurality to change of referents’ specificity Studies in Language 47:1, pp. 135–189 | Article
This paper aims at investigating the semantics of nominal reduplication cross-linguistically. Nominal reduplication is treated as an iconic morphological device expressing functions that have something to do with plurality. Nevertheless, in the languages of the world, other types of functions… read more
2021 Chapter 9. Exemplification in interaction: From reformulation to the creation of common ground Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work, Mauri, Caterina, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria (eds.), pp. 239–270 | Chapter
The aim of this paper is to examine how exemplification is used in real-time interactions to make reference to conceptual categories. Based on real occurrences of spoken Italian, it is shown that in conversations exemplification is used cooperatively by different participants to perform several… read more