Carla Quinci
List of John Benjamins publications in which Carla Quinci is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 9. Foretellers or forecasters? An analysis of the English and Italian verbs expressing prediction in economic discourse between 1900 and 1929 Multilingual Corpus Research: Advances and challenges, Ramón, Noelia and María Pérez Blanco (eds.), pp. 230–254 | Chapter
Predictions are prototypical speech acts of the economic discourse. By their very nature, they express different levels of certainty and degrees of subjectivity on the part of the forecaster. Their epistemic and inferential functions can be conveyed, among other things, by modal and predictive… read more
2026 Chapter 11. The verbal expression of prediction in economics: A diachronic corpus analysis of English and Italian across the twentieth century Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics, Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria, Dolores González-Álvarez and Esperanza Rama-Martínez (eds.), pp. 295–321 | Chapter
This chapter presents a diachronic, corpus-based analysis of modal and lexical verbs used in economic predictions across twentieth-century English and Italian academic texts. Focusing on their frequency, distribution, and epistemic function, the study reveals cross-linguistic and temporal… read more
2025 ‘Something old, something new, something borrowed’: Past, present, and future applications of Translation Quality Assessment From Disruptions to New Beginnings: The evolution of translation (studies) through technologies, Gaspari, Federico and Silvia Bernardini (eds.), pp. 308–333 | Article
The advancements in computing and artificial intelligence (AI) alongside the growing need for rapid and effective communication on a global scale are reshaping the landscape of translation, impacting the process, the product, and our understanding of translation. This is especially true for… read more