Carme Bach
List of John Benjamins publications in which Carme Bach is involved.
2025 Chapter 14. Examining coherence and cohesion errors in writing Catalan as an additional language: Some pedagogical proposals from a corpus‑based analysis Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages, Tyne, Henry and Stefania Spina (eds.), pp. 352–374 | Chapter
This study presents an analysis of a corpus of short texts written by French-speaking students of Catalan as an additional language. The research showed the frequent occurrence of errors of coherence and cohesion, though frequencies varied somewhat according to the student’s prior knowledge of… read more
2023 Chapter 3. Politeness in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): Mitigation of criticisms in spontaneous discourse in LSC Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written, Jucker, Andreas H., Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown (eds.), pp. 65–98 | Chapter
This paper focuses on politeness in Catalan Sign Language (LSC), concretely on criticisms. The main goal is to analyze linguistic mitigation, specifically through the discourse strategy that consists of expressions for restricting opinions. The data comes from a TV show in LSC, which features… read more
2010 Definitional verbal patterns for semantic relation extraction Probing Semantic Relations: Exploration and identification in specialized texts, Auger, Alain and Caroline Barrière (eds.), pp. 73–96 | Article
2008 Definitional verbal patterns for semantic relation extraction Pattern-based Approaches to Semantic Relation Extraction, Auger, Alain and Caroline Barrière (eds.), pp. 74–98 | Article
In this paper we present a description of the role of definitional verbal patterns for the extraction of semantic relations. Several studies show that semantic relations can be extracted from analytic definitions contained in machine-readable dictionaries (MRDs). In addition, definitions found in… read more