Silvia Bonacchi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Silvia Bonacchi plays a role.
Article
2017. Chapter 14. What does reduplication intensify? The semantics and pragmatics of reduplicated forms in Italian and their equivalents in German. Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria and Miriam Ravetto (eds.), pp. 289–304
In the present paper, the semantics of reduplication forms in Italian is analyzed on the basis of their intensifying pragmatic functions in regard to their base-forms (duration, graduation, modulation, disambiguation, accreditation of speaker, appeal to hearer) and to their “embodied” character… read more | Chapter