University of Genoa
List of John Benjamins publications for which someone affiliated with University of Genoa plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies
Sociobiological Bases of Information Structure
Edited by Viviana Masia
[Advances in Interaction Studies, 9] 2017. | monographSubjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Diachrony of Negation
Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen & Jacqueline Visconti
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 160] 2014. v, 258 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2024 Latin literature on the “discovery” of America
In: Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond: A millennium heritage[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, 34] pp. 324–334
Keywords discovery of America | linguistic communication | European travelers | Native Americans | Peter Martyr of Anghiera | Latin “Columbian” epic | sixteenth century | Aeneas | classical myth | “noble savage” |
aurea aetas
2024 Vagueness and ambiguity are very different (persuasion
devices)
In: Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 347] pp. 51–83
Keywords vagueness | ambiguity | persuasion | epistemic vigilance | implicit meaning | cognitive linguistics | experimental pragmatics
2024 Estudio de corpus del español europeo sobre la selección modal en las oraciones valorativas encabezadas por el artículo
neutro: <lo + adjetivo/verbo + ser que + indicativo/subjuntivo> [A corpus-based analysis on European Spanish mood selection in evaluative clauses with neutral article]
Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 37:2 pp. 396–423 | article
Keywords alternancia modal | indicativo y subjuntivo | oraciones valorativas | subordinadas sustantivas con lo
| oraciones copulativas enfáticas | pragmática del modo | gramaticalización | lingüística de corpus | mood selection | indicative and subjunctive | evaluative clauses | substantive subordinate clause with lo
| emphatic copulative clauses | mood pragmatics | grammaticalization | corpus linguistics
2023 Semantic distance predicts metaphoricity and creativity judgments in synesthetic metaphors
Keywords metaphor identification | norms | ratings | synesthetic metaphor | perception | perceptual metaphor | cosine similarity
2022 Kinaesthetic embodied schemas in emotion language: A contrastive comparison between manner-framed and path-framed
languages
Keywords emotive factive construction | emotion adjectives | locative and directional prepositions | embodied schemas | contrastive linguistics | talmy’s binary typology.
2023 Managing turns, building common ground, planning discourse: Discursive and interpersonal functions of Italian no(?)
Keywords alignment | turn-management | common ground | register variation | spoken Italian
2022 A Cognitive Grammar approach to ‘metonymy’
Keywords metonymy | reference point ability | conceptual integration | active zones | facets | conversion
2021 Properties of child-directed speech in bilingual parents: A study on partial repetitions
Keywords bilingualism | child-directed speech | corpus analyses | partial repetitions | variation sets
2021 Introduction
In: Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 37] pp. 1–16
Keywords
2021 “Your planet needs you”: An ecostylistic analysis of an ecology-oriented interactive
exhibition
In: Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 37] pp. 209–228
Keywords ecostylistics | interactive narrative | point of view | lexical choices | multimodal metaphors
2020
Falling to one’s death in multiple
landscapes: From blending to typology
In: Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language[Figurative Thought and Language, 9] pp. 107–128
Keywords resultative | metonymy | Unique Path Constraint | blending | verb-framed language | satellite-framed language
2021 Functional expansions of temporal adverbs and discursive connectives: From Latin tum, tunc, dumque to Old Italian dunque
Keywords discursive connectives | functional expansion | inference-driven change | Latin | Old Italian | temporal adverbs
2019 Constructions at work in foreign language learners’ mind: A comparison between two sentence-sorting experiments with English and Italian learners
Keywords constructional priming | L2 learners | sentence-sorting experiments | construction-based L2 pedagogy | language typology
2019 The perception of a robot partner’s effort elicits a sense of commitment to human-robot interaction
Keywords commitment | effort | human-robot interaction | joint action
2020 Genre as cognitive construction: An analysis of discourse connectors in academic lectures
Keywords academic lecture genre | cognition | complementary alternation | discourse construction
2017 A sociobiological account of indirect speech
Keywords Theory of Mind | exaptation | political discourse | cognitive fallacies
2017
Nulla sum, nulla sum: Tota, tota occidi
: Repetition as a (rare) strategy of intensification in Latin
In: Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives[Studies in Language Companion Series, 189] pp. 147–170
Keywords repetition | degree intensification | illocutionary intensification | pragmatics | Latin
2017 Figures and the senses: Towards a definition of synaesthesia
Keywords synaesthesia | perception | metaphor | metonymy | hypallage | simile
2016 Exploring a diachronic (re)cycle of roles: The Dative complex from Latin to Romance
Keywords dative | grammaticalization | Latin | role complex | Romance languages
2014 Exploring a diachronic (re)cycle of roles: The Dative complex from Latin to Romance
Keywords grammaticalization | dative | Latin | role complex | Romance languages
2016 Propositional attitudes towards presuppositions: An experimental approach
Keywords propositional attitudes | presuppositions | experimental pragmatics
2008 Keeping track of individuals: Brandom's analysis of Kripke's puzzle and the content of belief
Keywords anaphora | belief | context | disquotational principle | holism | idiolect | indexical | opacity | pronoun | translation
2006 The construal of simultaneity in English with special reference to as-clauses
Keywords simultaneity | as-clause | while-clause | path event | property | progressive
2005 Keeping track of individuals: Brandom’s analysis of Kripke’s puzzle and the content of belief
Keywords idiolect | indexical | opacity | pronoun | anaphora | belief | translation | context | disquotational principle | holism
2005 The cognitive basis of adjectival and adverbial resultative constructions
Keywords reference point ability | raising construction | resultative construction | billiard-ball model | property ascription
