Maicol Formentelli
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maicol Formentelli is involved.
2025 Grammatical complexity in film dialogue: A corpus-based study from a register-functional perspective International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30:1, pp. 51–78 | Article
Grammatical complexity has traditionally been associated with the structural elaboration of texts, and, more recently, with the functionally-motivated use of syntactic patterns exhibiting internal variability along the written-to-spoken register continuum (Biber et al., 2022). Adopting a… read more
2016 Address practices in academic interactions in a pluricentric language: Australian English, American English, and British English Pragmatics 26:4, pp. 631–652 | Article
Following the recent development of address research in pluricentric languages (Clyne et al. 2006), the present study describes address practices in English-speaking academic settings and pursues two main objectives: (a) to provide a profile of address patterns in academic interactions in… read more
2014 Vocatives galore in audiovisual dialogue: Evidence from a corpus of American and British films English Text Construction 7:1, pp. 53–83 | Article
The paper explores the use of vocatives in a corpus of 24 American and British films (the Pavia Corpus of Film Dialogue) by comparing film dialogue with spontaneous speech. A systematic quantitative and qualitative analysis of empirical data is provided to assess how address forms used by English… read more
2009 Address strategies in a British academic setting Pragmatics 19:2, pp. 179–196 | Article
The English system of address constitutes an exception among the European languages, in that it does not have a grammatical distinction between a formal pronoun of address and an informal one. Rather, English speakers exploit lexical strategies (i.e. nominal vocatives). This study aims to shed… read more