Sophie Raineri
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sophie Raineri is involved.
Articles
2024 Speaking for the downtrodden: The pragmatics of pronominal references in 200 years of activist speeches Corpus-Pragmatic Studies of Democratization in Public Discourses: New perspectives, methods and materials, Hiltunen, Turo, Turo Vartiainen and Jenni Räikkönen (eds.), pp. 274–301 | Article
Most linguistic studies of political speaking in the field of critical discourse analysis tend to focus on speeches delivered by prominent politicians either in a domestic party-political setting or in the international arena. Less attention has been afforded to speeches by civil rights… read more
2012 Is there a SE FAIRE V-er passive construction? Constructions in French, Bouveret, Myriam and Dominique Legallois (eds.), pp. 49–70 | Article
We observe that SE FAIRE V-er is usually recognized as bearing a passive meaning along with its causative reading. Existing studies, however, show a lack of consensus on whether there is only one primarily causative construction, which may lend itself to a passive reading via pragmatic inference in… read more