Ana Elina Martínez-Insua
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ana Elina Martínez-Insua is involved.
Articles
2013 It-clefts in the meta-informative structure of the utterance in Modern and Present-day English Meta-informative Centering in Utterances: Between Semantics and Pragmatics, Włodarczyk, André and Hélène Włodarczyk (eds.), pp. 145–166 | Article
This chapter focuses on the it-cleft construction and aims at, first, profiling it from the perspective adopted in Meta-Informative Centering Theory (hereafter, MIC) and, second, describing the major tendencies yielded by a diachronic corpus-based analysis. It-clefts deserve a specific place in an… read more
2010 “I desire to have some tyme to consider of it”: A pragmaphilological approach to refusals and refutations in Modern-English trials Discourses in Interaction, Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Marjut Johansson and Mia Raitaniemi (eds.), pp. 173–194 | Article
Enclosed within a larger project on the variation experienced by the English language in its recent history, the paper explores the use of indirect speech acts of refutation and denial in speech-related Modern-English texts. The corpus employed contains trial proceedings from the period 1560–1760,… read more