Rita Calabrese

List of John Benjamins publications in which Rita Calabrese is involved.

Title

Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies

Edited by Rossella Latorraca, Rita Calabrese, Jacqueline Aiello and Dirk Geeraerts

Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies provides a comprehensive examination of the intricate interplay between language and knowledge, viewing words not as mere vessels but as dynamic agents that sculpt our understanding of the world.… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 25] 2026. vi, 330 pp. + index

Articles

Calabrese, Rita and Katherine E. Russo 2026 Lexical variation across time and contact ecologies: A comparative corpus-assisted investigation of multiword constructions in Indian English and Australian Aboriginal English Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies, Latorraca, Rossella, Rita Calabrese, Jacqueline Aiello and Dirk Geeraerts (eds.), pp. 156–178 | Chapter

This contribution analyses verbal multiword constructions (MWCs) in Indian English and Aboriginal English, to investigate the diachronic development of compositional and non-compositional constructions bearing figurative/idiomatic meaning. Combining corpus-based and lexicographical approaches,… read more

Latorraca, Rossella, Rita Calabrese and Jacqueline Aiello 2026 Lexical variation and knowledge construction: An introduction Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies, Latorraca, Rossella, Rita Calabrese, Jacqueline Aiello and Dirk Geeraerts (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Chapter

The introduction to this volume seeks to investigate the interplay between lexical variation and knowledge construction, and to explore how different ecologies shape and are shaped by epistemic aspects of variationist phenomena. Organised into three sections, this chapter offers a systematic… read more

Calabrese, Rita 2023 Expanding the English as an International Language paradigm from different native language perspectives: A study of Italian/German ELF speakers in international contexts Challenges and solutions in translation: Insights into training, ELF, and accessibility, Latorraca, Rossella and Jacqueline Aiello (eds.), pp. 95–110 | Article

The present paper aims at expanding the English as an International Language (EIL) paradigm and providing new insights into the current status and role of EIL. The main focus of the study is on information structuring (IS) in dialogic speech events to show how IS affects the use of particular… read more