University of Insubria

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Insubria*

Mastropierro, Lorenzo & Kathy Conklin 2025 Reporting verbs and perception of femininity/masculinity in Harry Potter’s Hermione: A reader-response study of characterisation

Keywords: reporting verbs | characterisation | gender representation | reader response analysis | stylistics

Journal of Language and Pop Culture 2:1 pp. 31–53 | article

Guzzetti, Martina 2025 “Girls of the period”: Debating gender ideologies in the British feminist press (1894–1914)

Keywords: feminist periodicals | gender | ideology | historical news discourse | corpus linguistics | discourse analysis

In: News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press, Claridge, Claudia (ed.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 105] pp. 177–199

Barotto, Alessandra 2024 Using ambiguity and vagueness to avoid problematic answers: The case of Italian abbastanza

Keywords: abbastanza | Italian | politeness | discourse analysis | face-threatening questions

In: Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria & Chiara Zanchi (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 347] pp. 208–233

Rovelli, Giulia 2022 The popularization of learned medicine in late seventeenth-century England: Accommodating translation strategies and textual aspects

Keywords: medical vernacularization | medical popularization | translation studies | historical discourse analysis | historical pragmatics

In: Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse, Hiltunen, Turo & Irma Taavitsainen (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330] pp. 297–316

Sansò, Andrea 2021 Variation in language use is different from variation in genes: Some comments on Haider’s model of grammar change

Keywords: intentionality | teleology | usage-based models | diachronic typology

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 3:1 pp. 83–92 | article commentary

Fiorentini, Ilaria & Andrea Sansò 2017 Intensifiers between grammar and pragmatics: A lesson from a language contact situation

Keywords: intensifiers | language contact | pragmatics | Ladin | Italian | borrowing

In: Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria & Miriam Ravetto (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 189] pp. 173–192

Sansò, Andrea 2017 Where do antipassive constructions come from?: A study in diachronic typology

Keywords: antipassive | voice | diachronic typology | nominalization | reflexive | reciprocal

Diachronica 34:2 pp. 175–218 | article

Sansò, Andrea 2017 Agent-defocusing constructions from nominalized VPs: A cross-linguistic type?

Keywords: nominalization | agent defocusing | inverse constructions | impersonal constructions | passive constructions

Studies in Language 40:4 pp. 894–954 | article

Gobbo, Federico 2012 Review of Daughters of Esperanto by Alan Libert (2008)

Language Problems and Language Planning 35:3 pp. 273–275 | book review

Gobbo, Federico 2011 Review of Minority Language Planning and Micronationalism in Italy: An Analysis of the Situation of Friulan, Cimbrian and Western Lombard with Reference to Spanish Minority Languages by Paolo Coluzzi (2007)

Language Problems and Language Planning 35:2 pp. 176–178 | book review

Gobbo, Federico 2010 Review of English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity by Jennifer Jenkins (2007)

Language Problems and Language Planning 34:1 pp. 81–83 | book review

Gobbo, Federico 2010 Review of Una lingua e un popolo. Problemi attuali del movimento esperantista by Humphrey Tonkin (2009)

Language Problems and Language Planning 34:3 pp. 276–278 | book review

Gobbo, Federico 2008 Review of Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East by John Myhill (2006)

Language Problems and Language Planning 32:2 pp. 211–212 | book review

Gobbo, Federico 2008 Review of L’esperanto in Italia. Alla ricerca della democrazia linguistica by Carlo MinnajaRicciarda Ricorda (2007)

Language Problems and Language Planning 32:3 pp. 300–302 | book review

Cerabolini, Bruno & Simon Pierce 2007 Review of Ethnobotany and Conservation of Biocultural Diversity edited by Thomas J. S. Carlson & Luisa Maffi (2004)

Language Problems and Language Planning 31:1 pp. 83–86 | book review

Gobbo, Federico 2007 Review of English as an Academic Language in Europe: A Survey of its Use in Teaching by Ulrich Ammon & Grant McConnell (2002)

Language Problems and Language Planning 31:1 pp. 61–64 | book review

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.