Maria Cristina Lo Baido
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maria Cristina Lo Baido is involved.
Articles
2024 Chapter 8. Vagueness explored: The role of comment clauses Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 177–207 | Chapter
The paper sets out to explore the function of vagueness served by comment clauses in Italian, that is, (de-)verbal parentheticals performing various meta-discursive functions. Meta-discourse reflects the expression of speaker’s comment on discourse to different levels ranging from the… 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