Pierfranca Forchini

List of John Benjamins publications in which Pierfranca Forchini is involved.

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Decoding Movie Language through Multi-Dimensional Analysis and the Grammar of Graphics

Pierfranca Forchini

This book offers a comprehensive and refined account of movie discourse through the application of Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) to the American Movie Corpus, a collection of authentic, verified movie dialog transcriptions. Expanding on previous MDA-based research, it broadens both the scope of… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 124] 2025. vii, 329 pp.

Forchini, Pierfranca 2013 7. Using movie corpora to explore spoken American English: Evidence from multi-dimensional analysis Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from corpus linguistics, Bamford, Julia, Silvia Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani (eds.), pp. 123–136 | Article

Face-to-face and movie conversation are usually claimed to differ: the first is often described as the quintessence of spontaneity, whereas the second as the quintessence of artificiality. In fact, there are few empirical studies that demonstrate this and, in spite of what is generally maintained… read more

Forchini, Pierfranca and Amanda C. Murphy 2010 4-grams in comparable specialized corpora: Perspectives on phraseology, translation, and pedagogy Patterns, Meaningful Units and Specialized Discourses, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 87–103 | Article

Forchini, Pierfranca and Amanda C. Murphy 2008 N-grams in comparable specialized corpora: Perspectives on phraseology, translation, and pedagogy Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 351–367 | Article

This paper investigates the idiom principle realized as four-word phrases (4-grams) headed by prepositions in specialized corpora in English and Italian. Concentrating on at the end of, it reports that the collocates of at the end of regard time, and that apparently synonymic 4-grams are not used… read more

Forchini, Pierfranca  Review of Berber Sardinha & Fitzsimmons-Doolan (2025): Lexical Multidimensional Analysis Register Studies: Online-First Articles | Review