Lorenzo Mastropierro
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lorenzo Mastropierro is involved.
2026 Reporting verbs and perception of femininity/masculinity in Harry Potter ’s Hermione: A reader-response study of characterisation Journal of Language and Pop Culture 2:1, pp. 31–53 | Article
This study explores the relationship between reporting verbs and characterisation. It adopts a reader-response approach to test whether reporting verbs have an effect on readers’ perception of a character. Using data collected through a questionnaire, we investigate readers’ perceptions of… read more
2020 The translation of reporting verbs in Italian: The case of the Harry Potter series International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 25:3, pp. 241–269 | Article
This paper reports on a study of reporting verbs in the Harry Potter series and their translation in Italian. It offers quantitative and qualitative perspectives on how the English verbs have been translated by two Italian translators, who worked on different books of the series. This study… read more
2018 Key clusters as indicators of translator style Target 30:2, pp. 240–259 | Article
This paper discusses the issue of translator style through the comparison of two Italian translations of H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. Using a corpus linguistic approach, this paper proposes a method for the identification of potential indicators of translator style based on key… read more
2017 Key words and translated cohesion in Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness and one of its Italian translations English Text Construction 10:1, pp. 78–105 | To be specified
In this paper, we explore the potential of a corpus approach to study translated cohesion. We use key words as starting points for identifying cohesive networks in Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness and discuss how these networks contribute to the construction of literary meanings in the… read more
