Sapienza University of Rome

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

Humour in Self-Translation

Edited by Margherita Dore

Subjects Humor studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies | Translation Studies

[Topics in Humor Research, 11] 2022. | edited volume

Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in Asia. Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Rome, 21–24 March 2018

Edited by Otto Zwartjes & Paolo De Troia

Subjects History of linguistics

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 130] 2021. | edited volume

The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication

Viviana Masia

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psychology

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 322] 2021. | monograph

Reassessing Dubbing: Historical approaches and current trends

Edited by Irene Ranzato & Serenella Zanotti

Subjects Communication Studies | Translation Studies

[Benjamins Translation Library, 148] 2019. | edited volume

A History of Language Philosophies

Lia Formigari & Gabriel Poole

Subjects History of linguistics | Philosophy

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 105] 2004. x, 252 pp. | text book

Writing Development: An interdisciplinary view

Edited by Clotilde Pontecorvo

Subjects Language acquisition | Writing and literacy

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 6] 1997. xxxii, 338 pp. | edited volume

Wardle, Mary 2026 Intralingual variation in translation into “English”: Rewriting the (para)text for local audiences

Keywords: intralingual translation | retranslation | rewriting | nationlect | role of publishers | editors | translation into English | intra-English translation | paratext | supplementarity

In: Intralingual Translation: Beyond language and text, Karas, Hilla & Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 168] pp. 49–70

Appolloni, Remo 2026 Usury or interest?: Reconstructing early modern English economics discourse (1572–1664) via historical corpus linguistics

Keywords: early modern English | terminology standardisation | historical linguistic ecology | usury and interest | historical corpus linguistics

In: Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies, Latorraca, Rossella, Rita Calabrese, Jacqueline Aiello & Dirk Geeraerts (eds.) [Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 25] p. 88

Sedehi, Kamelia Talebian 2025 Cultural memory, testimony and witnessing in A Pipe for February

Keywords: Pawhuska | storytelling | testimony | witnessing | cultural memory

In: Storytelling, Identity Formation, and Resistance in Indigenous Cultures in Canada and the United States, Sedehi, Kamelia Talebian (ed.) [Studies in Narrative, 28] pp. 109–124

Sedehi, Kamelia Talebian 2025  Storytelling, Identity Formation, and Resistance in Indigenous Cultures in Canada and the United States

In: Storytelling, Identity Formation, and Resistance in Indigenous Cultures in Canada and the United States, Sedehi, Kamelia Talebian (ed.) [Studies in Narrative, 28]

Sedehi, Kamelia Talebian 2025 Introduction: Storytelling, identity formation, and resistance in Indigenous cultures in Canada and the United States

In: Storytelling, Identity Formation, and Resistance in Indigenous Cultures in Canada and the United States, Sedehi, Kamelia Talebian (ed.) [Studies in Narrative, 28] pp. 1–9

Brandizzi, Nicolo’, Morgan E. Bailey, Carolina Centeio Jorge, Myke C. Cohen, Francesco Frattolillo & Alan R. Wagner 2026 Multidisciplinary perspectives on Human-AI team trust

Interaction Studies 26:2 pp. 151–163 | preface

Tielman, Myrthe L., Morgan Bailey, Francesco Frattolillo, Carolina Centeio Jorge, Anna-Sophie Ulfert & André Meyer-Vitali 2026 Multidisciplinary perspectives on human‑AI team trust

Keywords: trust | human-AI teamwork | research challenges | trustworthy AI | human-AI collaboration | team trust

Interaction Studies 26:2 pp. 164–199 | article

Dore, Margherita & Vittorio Napoli 2025 Multilingualism in translation: Emily in Paris and its French, Italian, and Spanish dubbed versions

Keywords: multilingualism | identity | audiovisual translation | Emily in Paris | dubbing

Target 38:1 pp. 24–50 | article

Ryszka, Joanna, Anna Stwora, Marlena Moskal, Dariusz Jakubowski & Natalia Supernak 2025 Say Gesundheit to the Bagel-eating Paparazzi : The role of borrowings in Super Bowl commercials

Keywords: borrowings | commercials | Super Bowl | sociolinguistics | advertising discourse

English World-Wide 46:2 pp. 186–212 | article

Grieco, Beatrice & Edoardo Nardi 2025 The metalinguistic development of the term ‘periphrasis’ in the western grammatical tradition from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

Historiographia Linguistica 52:1 p. 63 | article

Breimaier, Federica, Vincenzo Faraoni & Michele Loporcaro 2025 Truncated vocatives in Romanesco: A crowdsourced study

Keywords: vocative | truncation | crowdsourcing | inference trees | Likert scales | Romanesco | morphology | lexicon

Linguistic Variation 26:1 pp. 1–23 | article | open access

Incelli, Ersilia 2025 Dialogic framing in pharmaceutical corporate energy transition strategies: A corpus-based approach

Keywords: corpora | dialogicity | engagement | energy transition | framing | ESG reports

Language and Dialogue 15:1 pp. 36–55 | article

Dore, Margherita 2024 Review of Time, Space, Matter in Translation edited by Beattie Pamela, Simona Bertacco & Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe (2022)

Babel 71:4 pp. 582–586 | book review

Hartmann, Stefan, Sławomir Wacewicz, Andrea Ravignani, Daria Valente, Evelina Daniela Rodrigues, Rie Asano & Yannick Jadoul 2024 Delineating the field of language evolution research: A quantitative analysis of peer-review patterns at the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE 2022)

Keywords: conference on language evolution | language | language evolution | research topics | controversies

Interaction Studies 25:1 pp. 100–117 | article

Cecchetti, Erica & Gabriele Tola 2025 Mapping the world through lexicography: A preliminary study on toponyms in Brollo’s Dictionarium sinico-latinum

Historiographia Linguistica 51:1/3 pp. 130–150 | article | open access

La Russa, Francesca 2024 Effets du feedback correctif écrit direct et indirect sur la réécriture du texte et les subséquentes productions d’apprenants de l’italien LV3 au lycée [Effects of direct and indirect written corrective feedback on text rewriting and subsequent production by learners of Italian as a foreign language at secondary school]

Keywords: feedback correctif écrit | feedback direct | feedback indirect | traitement du feedback | écriture en L2 | acquisition de l’italien LE | written corrective feedback | direct feedback | indirect feedback | feedback treatment | writing in L2 | Italian L2 acquisition

Language, Interaction and Acquisition 14:2 pp. 191–217 | article

Ranzato, Irene 2023 Carry on Caesar: Creative manipulations of the cinematographic Roman emperor

Keywords: dubbing | dialects | stock characters | stereotypes | censorship

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 9:3 pp. 379–397 | article

Gaballo, Viviana 2023 Translation in CLIL: Mission impossible?

Keywords: bilingual language processing | CLIL | EMI | monolingualism | translanguaging | translation competence

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 9:1 pp. 71–94 | article

De Angelis, Alessandro & Giulia Bucci 2022  There sentences in extreme southern Italy: On the rise of a “Greek-style” pattern

Keywords: existentials | there sentences | extreme southern Italo-Romance dialects | Greek-Romance contact | historical sociolinguistics | differential object marking (DOM) | definiteness effect

Journal of Historical Linguistics 12:3 pp. 337–380 | article

Masia, Viviana 2022 Remarks on information structure marking asymmetries: The epistemological view on the micropragmatic profile of utterances

Keywords: focus alternatives | illocution | topic | individual evidentiality | mutual evidentiality

In: When Data Challenges Theory: Non-prototypical, unexpected and paradoxical evidence in the field of information structure, Garassino, Davide & Daniel Jacob (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 273] pp. 57–90

Dore, Margherita 2022 Humour in self-translation: Reasons and rationale

Keywords: migration | culture | identity | humour | self-translation

In: Humour in Self-Translation, Dore, Margherita (ed.) [Topics in Humor Research, 11] pp. 1–12

Dore, Margherita 2022 Humour, language variation and self-translation in stand-up comedy

Keywords: stand-up comedy | audience | stereotype-based humour | self-translation | identity

In: Humour in Self-Translation, Dore, Margherita (ed.) [Topics in Humor Research, 11] pp. 113–140

Dore, Margherita 2022 Humour in self-translation

In: Humour in Self-Translation, Dore, Margherita (ed.) [Topics in Humor Research, 11] p.  ff.

Volterra, Virginia, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo & Sabina Fontana 2022 Italian Sign Language from a cognitive and socio-semiotic perspective: Implications for a general language theory

In: Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective: Implications for a general language theory, Volterra, Virginia, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo & Sabina Fontana[Gesture Studies, 9] p.  ff.

Zwartjes, Otto & Paolo De Troia 2021 André Palmeiro’s Epistola (Macau 8/V 1632) cum paradigmate Orationis Dominicae Pater Noster in lingua Sinica, Japonica, Annamitica : A linguistic analysis

In: Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in Asia. Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Rome, 21–24 March 2018, Zwartjes, Otto & Paolo De Troia (eds.) [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 130] pp. 1–76

Alexandrova, Anna & Valentina Benigni 2021 Morphopragmatics of rhyming and imitative co-compounds in Russian

Keywords: coordinative compounding | rhyming co-compounds | imitative co-compounds

In: Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work, Mauri, Caterina, Ilaria Fiorentini & Eugenio Goria (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 220] pp. 317–354

Masia, Viviana 2021 The manipulative disguise of truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication

In: The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication, Masia, Viviana[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 322] p. iii ff.

De Palo, Marina 2020 L’homme dans la langue: Tradition saussurienne et développements phénoménologiques

Keywords: phenomenology | speaking subject | Saussure | Bühler | Benveniste | phénoménologie | sujet parlant | Saussure | Bühler Benveniste

In: History of Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, (ICHoLS 14), Paris, 28 August – 1 September, Aussant, Émilie & Jean-Michel Fortis (eds.) [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 127] pp. 113–128

Squillante, Luigi 2020 Empirical variability of Italian multiword expressions as a useful feature for their categorisation

Keywords: collocation | categorisation | multiword expressions | PAISÀ corpus | semantic variation

In: Computational Phraseology, Corpas Pastor, Gloria & Jean-Pierre Colson (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 24] pp. 225–246

Colaiori, Francesca & Francesca Tria 2021 A complex system approach to language evolution: The case of regular versus irregular verbs in English

Keywords: rules and exceptions | complex systems | English past-tense | agent-based modeling

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:2 pp. 118–126 | article

Hernández Toribio, María Isabel & Laura Mariottini 2020 Compliments in congratulatory tweets to Spanish Olympic athletes

Keywords: congratulations | compliments | Twitter | social media | Peninsular Spanish

In: Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media: New contexts and new insights, Placencia, María Elena & Zohreh R. Eslami (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 313] pp. 263–286

Bello, Arianna, Silvia Stefanini, Pasquale Rinaldi, Daniela Onofrio & Virginia Volterra 2021 Gestural symbolic strategies in children with Down syndrome

Keywords: Down syndrome | picture-naming game (PiNG) | gesture | symbolic strategies

Gesture 19:2/3 pp. 299–334 | article

Palo, Marina De 2020  Le Sens en partage. Dictionnaires et théories du sens XIX^e–XX^e siècles. By Valentina Bisconti

Historiographia Linguistica 46:3 pp. 174–181 | book review

Wardle, Mary 2019 A Worldwide Web of Words: Queneau Redux

Keywords: translation | retranslation | Raymond Queneau | Exercices de style | rhizomatic model | paratext | traduction | retraduction | Raymond Queneau | Exercices de style | modèle rhizomique | paratextes

FORUM 17:1 pp. 62–76 | article

Pickering, Lucy, Laura Di Ferrante, Carrie Bruce, Eric Friginal, Pamela Pearson & Julie Bouchard 2019 An introduction to the ANAWC: The AAC and Non-AAC Workplace Corpus

Keywords: Augmentative and Alternative Communication | workplace corpus | collection | annotation procedures

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 24:2 pp. 229–244 | article

Cognola, Federica 2019 On the left periphery of three languages of Northern Italy: New insights into the typology of relaxed V2

Keywords: Relativised Minimality | linear restriction | multiple access to CP | movement of the finite verb | Early Romance

Linguistic Variation 19:1 p. 82 | article

Capobianco, Micaela & Luca Cerniglia 2019 Communicative, cognitive and emotional issues in selective mutism: A narrative review on elements of a multimodal intervention

Keywords: selective mutism | social anxiety | diagnostic comorbidity | internalizing problems | cognitive-behavioral intervention | multimodal therapy

Interaction Studies 19:3 pp. 445–458 | article

Dore, Margherita 2018 Laughing at you or laughing with you?: Humor negotiation in intercultural stand-up comedy

Keywords: stand-up comedy | audience | stereotype-based humor | culture | identity

In: The dynamics of interactional humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters, Tsakona, Villy & Jan Chovanec (eds.) [Topics in Humor Research, 7] pp. 105–126

Gensini, Stefano 2017  Itinerari ottocenteschi. Tra linguistica storico-comparativa e linguistica generale. By Maria Patrizia Bologna

Historiographia Linguistica 44:1 pp. 177–183 | book review

D’Alonzo, Jacopo 2017 Ludwig Noiré and the Debate on Language Origins in the 19th Century

Historiographia Linguistica 44:1 pp. 47–71 | article

Capobianco, Micaela, Elena Antinoro Pizzuto & Antonella Devescovi 2017 Gesture–speech combinations and early verbal abilities: New longitudinal data during the second year of age

Keywords: pointing | deictic gestures | supplementary and complementary combinations | early verbal skills | prevention

Interaction Studies 18:1 pp. 55–76 | article

Leonardi, Vanessa & Rita Salvi 2016 Language pedagogy and translation studies: Towards a (re)definition of translation

Keywords: language and culture | language for specific purposes (LSP) | language teaching | translation and corpora

In: Border Crossings: Translation Studies and other disciplines, Gambier, Yves & Luc van Doorslaer (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 126] pp. 331–348

Pontecorvo, Clotilde & Francesco Arcidiacono 2016 The dialogic construction of justifications and arguments of a seven-year-old child within a ‘democratic’ family

Keywords: argumentation | socialization | reasoning | family | dinnertime conversations

Language and Dialogue 6:2 pp. 306–328 | article

Ranzato, Irene 2016 Maszerowska, Anna, Anna Matamala & Pilar Orero, eds. 2014. Audio description. New perspectives illustrated

Target 28:2 pp. 330–332 | book review

Fatigante, Marilena & Saverio Bafaro 2014 The journey to advice: Balancing certainty and uncertainty in doctor delivery of expert opinion

In: Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts, Zuczkowski, Andrzej, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni & Carla Canestrari (eds.) [Dialogue Studies, 25] pp. 157–181

Gensini, Stefano 2014 Avi Lifschitz, Language and Enlightenment: The Berlin debates of the eighteenth century

Historiographia Linguistica 41:1 pp. 158–163 | book review

Cienki, Alan & Gianluca Giansante 2014 Conversational framing in televised political discourse: A comparison from the 2008 elections in the United States and Italy

Keywords: conversationalisation | debate | fictive interaction | framing | gesture | interview | populist | television

Journal of Language and Politics 13:2 pp. 255–288 | article

Alfieri, Luca 2013 Review of Parts of speech: Empirical and theoretical advances edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don & Roland Pfau (2010)

Studies in Language 37:2 pp. 425–434 | book review

Sofia, Gabriele 2013 Achieved spontaneity and spectator’s performative experience – The motor dimension of the actor-spectator relationship

In: Moving Imagination: Explorations of gesture and inner movement, De Preester, Helena (ed.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 89] pp. 69–86

Branchini, Chiara, Anna Cardinaletti, Carlo Cecchetto, Caterina Donati & Carlo Geraci 2013 wh-duplication in Italian Sign Language (LIS)

Keywords: sign language | Italian Sign Language (LIS) | doubling | cleft questions | wh-questions | copy theory of traces

Sign Language & Linguistics 16:2 pp. 157–188 | article

Mariottini, Laura 2012 Review of Sociolingüística del español. Desarrollos y perspectivas en el estudio de la lengua española en contexto social by José Luis Blas Arroyo (2008)

Spanish in Context 9:1 pp. 133–138 | book review

Tria, Francesca, Emanuele Caglioti, Vittorio Loreto & Andrea Pagnani 2012 A stochastic local search approach to language tree reconstruction

In: Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh, Wichmann, Søren & Anthony P. Grant (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 46] pp. 155–172

Formigari, Lia 2012 De la grammatisation à la linguistique générale: Un parcours d’histoire et d’épistémologie

Historiographia Linguistica 39:1 pp. 115–122 | review article

Bowker, Janet 2011 The Language of Numerical Data and Figures in Internal Company Communications: The Processes of Subjectivization and Relevance-Making

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 162:1 pp. 20–35 | article

Tria, Francesca, Emanuele Caglioti, Vittorio Loreto & Andrea Pagnani 2010 A stochastic local search approach to language tree reconstruction

Keywords: stochastic methods | noise and horizontal transfer | phylogeny | trees

Diachronica 27:2 pp. 341–358 | article

Portelli, Alessandro & Charles Hardy III 2009 Foreword

In: Oral History: The challenges of dialogue, Kurkowska-Budzan, Marta & Krzysztof Zamorski (eds.) [Studies in Narrative, 10] pp. ix–x

Wisspeintner, Thomas, Tijn van der Zant, Luca Iocchi & Stefan Schiffer 2009 RoboCup@Home: Scientific Competition and Benchmarking for Domestic Service Robots

Interaction Studies 10:3 pp. 392–426 | article

Formigari, Lia 2008 Philosophical naturalism and linguistic epistemology

In: Naturalness and Iconicity in Language, Willems, Klaas & Ludovic De Cuypere (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 7] pp. 25–46

Stefanini, Silvia, Martina Recchia & Maria Cristina Caselli 2008 The relationship between spontaneous gesture production and spoken lexical ability in children with Down syndrome in a naming task

Keywords: lexical abilities | gestures | children with Down syndrome

Gesture 8:2 pp. 197–218 | article

Antinoro Pizzuto, Elena & Micaela Capobianco 2008 The link and differences between deixis and symbols in children’s early gestural-vocal system

Keywords: deictic | early language | gestures | representational | vocalizations | words

In: Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller & Simone Pika (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 10] pp. 161–179

Corsetti, Renato 2006 Review of L’enseignement des langues étrangères comme politique publique by François Grin (2005)

Language Problems and Language Planning 30:2 pp. 198–203 | book review

Antinoro Pizzuto, Elena, Micaela Capobianco & Antonella Devescovi 2005 Gestural-vocal deixis and representational skills in early language development

Keywords: early language | gestures | words | vocalizations | deictic | representational

Interaction Studies 6:2 pp. 223–252 | article

Antinoro Pizzuto, Elena & Micaela Capobianco 2005 The link (and differences) between deixis and symbols in children’s early gestural-vocal system

Keywords: gestures | words | vocalizations | deictic | representational | early language

Gesture 5:1/2 pp. 179–199 | article

Corsetti, Renato, Maria A. Pinto & Maria Tolomeo 2004 Regularizing the regular: The phenomenon of overregularization in Esperanto-speaking children

Language Problems and Language Planning 28:3 pp. 261–282 | article

Poggi, Isabella & Catherine Pelachaud 2008 Signals and meanings of gaze in animated faces

In: Language, Vision and Music: Selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Galway, 1999, Mc Kevitt, Paul, Seán Ó Nualláin & Conn Mulvihill (eds.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 35] pp. 133–144

Formigari, Lia 2002 Austinians and romantics

Historiographia Linguistica 29:1/2 pp. 191–202 | review article

Pinto, Maria A. & Renato Corsetti 2001 Ricadute metalinguistiche dell’insegnamento dell’esperanto sulla lingua materna dell’alunno: Un’esperienza nella scuola media italiana

Language Problems and Language Planning 25:1 pp. 73–90 | other

De Mauro, Tullio 2002 Rileggendo il terzo corso di linguistica generale di Ferdinand de Saussure (1910–1911)

Historiographia Linguistica 27:2/3 pp. 289–295 | article

Corsetti, Renato 1997 Review of La danĝera lingvo. Studo pri la persekutoj kontraŭ Esperanto by Ulrich Lins (1990)

Language Problems and Language Planning 21:2 pp. 177–179 | book review

Corsetti, Renato 1996 A Mother Tongue Spoken Mainly by Fathers

Language Problems and Language Planning 20:3 pp. 263–273 | other

Corsetti, Renato & Mauro La Torre 1995 Quale lingua prima? Per un esperimento CEE che utilizzi l'esperanto

Language Problems and Language Planning 19:1 pp. 26–46 | article

Formigari, Lia 1995 Language as a sixth sense

Historiographia Linguistica 22:3 pp. 369–377 | review article

Passalacqua, Marina 1993 Priscian’s institutio de nomine et pronomine et verbo in the ninth century

Historiographia Linguistica 20:1 pp. 193–204 | article

Chaume, Frederic & Irene Ranzato Beyond compliance: Creativity and human agency in audiovisual translation

Translation Spaces | Online First Publication, 9 pp. | introduction | open access

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