Pierfranca Forchini
List of John Benjamins publications for which Pierfranca Forchini plays a role.
Articles
2013 7. Using movie corpora to explore spoken American English: Evidence from multi-dimensional analysis Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from corpus linguistics, Bamford, Julia, Silvia Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani (eds.), pp. 123–136 | Article
Face-to-face and movie conversation are usually claimed to differ: the first is often described as the quintessence of spontaneity, whereas the second as the quintessence of artificiality. In fact, there are few empirical studies that demonstrate this and, in spite of what is generally maintained… read more
2010 4-grams in comparable specialized corpora: Perspectives on phraseology, translation, and pedagogy Patterns, Meaningful Units and Specialized Discourses, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 87–103 | Article
2008 N-grams in comparable specialized corpora: Perspectives on phraseology, translation, and pedagogy Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 351–367 | Article
This paper investigates the idiom principle realized as four-word phrases (4-grams) headed by prepositions in specialized corpora in English and Italian. Concentrating on at the end of, it reports that the collocates of at the end of regard time, and that apparently synonymic 4-grams are not used… read more