Stefania Biscetti
List of John Benjamins publications in which Stefania Biscetti is involved.
Article
2008 The diachronic development of the intensifier bloody: A case study in historical pragmatics English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Dury, Richard, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena (eds.), pp. 53–74 | Article
This paper traces the history of bloody from a holistic perspective, that is, by considering bloody in relation to other items within the system of intensification. Using corpus evidence, the paper rejects current etymological proposals and suggests that the Reformation was the possible… read more