Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti is involved.

Titles

Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe

Edited by Marina Dossena and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in correspondence both as a literary genre and as cultural practice, and several studies have appeared, mainly spanning the centuries between Early and Late Modern times. However, it is between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the roots… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 218] 2012. vii, 254 pp.

Strategies in Academic Discourse

Edited by Elena Tognini-Bonelli and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti

This book focuses on theoretical and descriptive issues and techniques in the study of text and discourse. Drawing on a large number of corpora containing academic language, from spoken language to published research papers, the authors approach their subject from multiple angles: The academic… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 19] 2005. xii, 212 pp.

Del Lungo Camiciotti, Gabriella 2013 10. From letters to guidebooks: Ruskin’s Mornings in Florence Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from corpus linguistics, Bamford, Julia, Silvia Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani (eds.), pp. 173–184 | Article

A concern of Ruskin, guidebook writing, has remained relatively marginal to critical discourse. Yet, he produced a well-known work addressed to travellers to Italy, Mornings in Florence, that can be termed a ‘guidebook’. The paper analyses this text with a view to investigating how heritage sites… read more

Del Lungo Camiciotti, Gabriella 2012 An atypical commercial correspondence: Negotiating artefacts and status Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 105–120 | Article

This paper investigates how artefacts and identities are textually constructed in an unpublished nineteenth-century epistolary exchange between the Director of the National Gallery, London, Sir Frederic Burton (1816–1900) and the painter, collector and dealer Charles Fairfax Murray (1849–1919). The… read more

Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti 2012 Introduction Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article

Del Lungo Camiciotti, Gabriella 2008 Two polite speech acts from a diachronic perspective: Aspects of the realisation of requesting and undertaking commitments in the nineteenth-century commercial community Speech Acts in the History of English, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 115–131 | Article

Del Lungo Camiciotti, Gabriella 2005 The economics academic lecture in the nineteenth century: Marshall's Lectures to Women Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past, Skaffari, Janne, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen and Brita Wårvik (eds.), pp. 95–107 | Article

This study investigates the economics lecture from a historical discursive perspective, focusing on the case of Marshall's lectures in Cambridge in 1873. The historical study of academic genres has primarily dealt with the research article and the textbook, while the academic lecture has been… read more

Del Lungo Camiciotti, Gabriella 2004 Abstracts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9:1, pp. 161–165 | Miscellaneous

Del Lungo Camiciotti, Gabriella 2004 Review of Raumolin-Brumberg, Nevala, Nurmi & Rissanen ((2002)): Variation Past and Present.VARIENG Studies on English for Terttu Nevalainen International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9:1, pp. 157–160 | Review

Del Lungo Camiciotti, Gabriella 2002 Performative aspects of late medieval English wills Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3:2, pp. 205–227 | Article

This paper presents a case study of the fifty earliest English wills in the Court of Probate, London, with a view to contributing towards highlighting the historical development of this legal genre. By analysing these documents from a pragmatic perspective and setting them in a diachronic… read more