Lucia Busso
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lucia Busso is involved.
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2025 Chapter 1. How do media talk about the COVID-19 pandemic? Metaphorical thematic clustering in Italian online newspapers COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses (eds.), pp. 10–39 | Chapter
The contribution presents a study on figurative language from the first months of the COVID-19 crisis in Italian online newspapers. Particularly, we contrast topics and metaphorical language used by journalists in the first and second phases of the government response to the pandemic in Spring… read more
2021 Review of Petruck (2018): MetaNet Constructions and Frames 13:2, pp. 340–347 | Review
2020 Constructional creativity in a Romance language: Valency coercion in Italian The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 17–29 | Article
The present contribution summarizes findings on the understudied area of Italian valency coercion – i. e. the interaction of verbs and argument structure constructions in novel and creative ways – from four different studies. It highlights their innovative character, theoretical significance,… read more
2020 Valency coercion in Italian: An exploratory study Constructions and Frames 12:2, pp. 171–205 | Article
The paper investigates valency coercion effects in Italian by means of an acceptability rating task on nine argument structure constructions. The experimental design follows Perek & Hilpert (2014) in presenting three conditions: grammatical, impossible and coercion stimuli. This design allows us… read more