University of Bergamo

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

Computer-mediated communication in class: Fostering access to digital mediascapes. Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 10:1 (2024)

EditorStefania Maci & Marianna Lya Zummo

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Translation Studies

[Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts, 10:1] 2024. v, 116 pp. | special issue

Audiovisual translation in context: Granting access to digital mediascapes. Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 9:3 (2023)

EditorJorge Díaz-Cintas, Alessandra Rizzo & Cinzia Giacinta Spinzi

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Translation Studies

[Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts, 9:3] 2023. v, 165 pp. | special issue

Conspiracy theory discourses

Edited by Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi & Angela Zottola

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 98] 2022. | edited volume

Space in Diachrony

Edited by Silvia Luraghi, Tatiana Nikitina & Chiara Zanchi

Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 188] 2017.  | edited volume

Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English

Edited by Marina Dossena

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | History of linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 4] 2015. vii, 221 pp. |

Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface

Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat, Caterina Mauri & Piera Molinelli

Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 133] 2013. xi, 450 pp. | edited volume

Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe

Edited by Marina Dossena & Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti

Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 218] 2012. vii, 254 pp. | edited volume

English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology

Edited by Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena & Richard Dury

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 295] 2008. xiv, 259 pp. | edited volume

English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change

Edited by Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti & Marina Dossena

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Lexicography | Pragmatics | Semantics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 296] 2008. xiii, 264 pp. | edited volume

English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume III: Geo-Historical Variation in English

Edited by Marina Dossena, Richard Dury & Maurizio Gotti

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 297] 2008. xiii, 197 pp. | edited volume

Consonni, Stefania 2025 How true is scientific discourse?: A comparative study of epistemicity in on-page and on-screen media

Keywords: epistemic modality | cross-semiotic analysis | semiotisation | screen media | scientific communication.

In: Possibility and Necessity: Concepts and expressions of modality, Albrespit, Jean, Christelle Lacassain & Tracey Simpson (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 237] pp. 117–137

Ferrarotti, Lorenzo 2025 Bilingualism and language contact in 16th-century Northern Italy: Some external evidence for the phonological history of French

Keywords: historical phonology | Middle French | Piedmontese | Northern Italy | language contact | bilingualism

Revue Romane 60:2 pp. 297–318 | article

Falcone, Mariasophia 2025 Transparent communication in public transit: A cross-generic comparison of dialogic features of Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s website and Instagram

Keywords: public transit | participatory web | dialogicity | transparent communication

Language and Dialogue 15:1 p. 81 | article

D’Argenio, Elisa & Chiara Ghezzi 2024 Place names in legal texts: Vagueness and ambiguity in the Italian Medieval Lombard kingdoms

Keywords: locus ubi dicitur | legal texts | Latin | vagueness | ambiguity

In: Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria & Chiara Zanchi (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 347] pp. 259–280

Fedriani, Chiara & Piera Molinelli 2024 Cultural products, passing fashions, and linguistic changes: A view from the Italian pragmatic marker ma vieni

Keywords: pragmatic marker | audio-visual media | apparent time | socio-pragmatics | Italian

In: Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages, Pons Bordería, Salvador & Shima Salameh Jiménez (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 340] p. 95

Ghezzi, Chiara 2024 Social indexicality and pragmatic change in the late 20th century: Cioè and tipo in Italian radio phone-ins

Keywords: cioè | tipo | social indexicality | pragmatic change | language attitudes | Italian

In: Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages, Pons Bordería, Salvador & Shima Salameh Jiménez (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 340] pp. 158–187

Maci, Stefania & Marianna Lya Zummo 2024 Introduction: Computer-mediated communication in class

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 10:1 pp. 1–5 | introduction

Roncoroni, Tiziana 2024 Argumentation in scientific discourse: A pragma-dialectical pilot study

Keywords: scientific discourse | pragma-dialectics | analysis of argumentation | prototypical argumentative patterns | indirect argumentation | German scientific papers | Italian scientific papers

In: Persuasion in Specialized Discourse: A multidisciplinary perspective, Degano, Chiara, Dora Renna & Francesca Santulli (eds.) [Argumentation in Context, 22] pp. 189–210

Sterponi, Laura, Pietro Barbetta & Enrico Valtellina 2023 The autistic dialogue: A Bakhtinian framework for singular voices

Keywords: autism | dialogue | double-voicing | heteroglossia | polyphony

In: Disability in Dialogue, Hughes, Jessica M. F. & Mariaelena Bartesaghi (eds.) [Dialogue Studies, 33] pp. 34–48

Rizzo, Alessandra & Cinzia Giacinta Spinzi 2023 Authorial (audio) description: Creativity in the transfer of CSRs in Squid Game

Keywords: creativity | culture-specific references | authorial intent | audio description | Squid Game

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 9:3 pp. 419–449 | article

Díaz Cintas, Jorge, Alessandra Rizzo & Cinzia Giacinta Spinzi 2023 Introduction: Audiovisual translation in context

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 9:3 pp. 289–297 | introduction

Cognola, Federica, Manuela Caterina Moroni & Ermenegildo Bidese 2022 A comparative study of German auch and Italian anche : Functional convergences and structural differences

Keywords: additive particle | connective adverb | focalizer | verum focus | Common Ground management | polarity item | concessive clause

In: Particles in German, English and Beyond, Gergel, Remus, Ingo Reich & Augustin Speyer (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 224] pp. 209–242

Fedriani, Chiara & Piera Molinelli 2023 Managing turns, building common ground, planning discourse: Discursive and interpersonal functions of Italian no(?)

Keywords: alignment | turn-management | common ground | register variation | spoken Italian

Pragmatics & Cognition 29:2 pp. 347–369 | article

Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi & Angela Zottola 2022 Conspiracy theory discourses: Critical inquiries into the language of anti-science, post-trutherism, mis/disinformation and alternative media

In: Conspiracy theory discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi & Angela Zottola (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 98] pp. 1–22

Zorzi, Virginia 2022 Collective identities in the online self-representation of conspiracy theorists: The cases of climate change denial, ‘Deep State’ and ‘Big Pharma’

In: Conspiracy theory discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi & Angela Zottola (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 98] pp. 365–392

Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi & Angela Zottola 2022 Conspiracy theory discourses

In: Conspiracy theory discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi & Angela Zottola (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 98]

Anesa, Patrizia 2021 Review of Corpus Analysis in Different Genres: Academic Discourse and Learner Corpora edited by María Luisa Carrió-Pastor (2020)

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 35:1 pp. 360–364 | book review

Hidalgo Gallardo, Matías 2021 Influencia de la lengua materna y del conocimiento de lenguas extranjeras en el léxico disponible en ELE [The influence of the mother tongue and of multilingualism on the available lexicon in Spanish as a foreign language]

Keywords: influencia | lengua materna | L1 | lenguas extranjeras | L2 | léxico disponible | disponibilidad léxica | español como lengua extranjera (ELE) | sinohablantes | influence | mother tongue | L1 | foreign languages | available lexicon | lexical availability | Spanish as a foreign language | Chinese-speaking learners

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 34:1 pp. 119–143 | article

Coschignano, Serena 2021 The semantic network of temperature : Non-sensory domains accessed with metaphorical extensions of the Italian adjectives caldo and freddo

Keywords: Italian | ItTenTen16 | temperature | embodiment | image-schema | cognitive metaphor | semantic network

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:1 pp. 232–258 | article

Ghezzi, Chiara & Piera Molinelli 2021 Connectives and cyclicity: From the Latin temporal phrase illa hora to the Italian discourse marker allora

Keywords: allora | discourse markers | dunque | morphological cycle | semantic–pragmatic cycle

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 21:2 pp. 208–235 | article

Fedriani, Chiara & Piera Molinelli 2021 Functional expansions of temporal adverbs and discursive connectives: From Latin tum, tunc, dumque to Old Italian dunque

Keywords: discursive connectives | functional expansion | inference-driven change | Latin | Old Italian | temporal adverbs

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 21:2 pp. 182–207 | article

Saturno, Jacopo 2020 Word formation in the earliest stages of L2 Polish: The use of derivational morphology in reference to human entities

Keywords: initial SLA | word formation | input control | first exposure | usage-based | Polish

Language, Interaction and Acquisition 11:2 pp. 232–267 | article

Garofalo, Giovanni 2020 “Yo intenté defenderme y se me cayó desnuca’”: Procedimientos de inagentivación y reticencia en el interrogatorio de un acusado de feminicidio: Notas preliminares para la formación de intérpretes judiciales

Keywords: construcción lingüística de la violencia de género | inagentivación | reticencia | examen oral del acusado | resistencia a las acusaciones | linguistic construction of gender violence | non-agency | reticence | direct and counter-examination | resistance to criminal charges

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 6:2 pp. 131–148 | article

Saturno, Jacopo & Marzena Watorek 2020 The emergence of functional case marking in initial varieties of Polish L2

Keywords: morphosyntax | case marking | functionalism | initial SLA | word order | Polish | elicited imitation task

Language, Interaction and Acquisition 11:1 pp. 32–67 | article

Shvanyukova, Polina 2020 Transgressions as a socialisation strategy in Samuel Richardson’s The Apprentice’s Vade Mecum (1734)

Keywords: conduct manuals | didactic advice literature | instructional writing | eighteenth century | apprentices | transgressions | rhetorical strategies | manners and norms

In: Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches, Jucker, Andreas H. & Irma Taavitsainen (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 312] pp. 165–182

Dossena, Marina 2019 Singular, plural, or collective?: Grammatical flexibility and the definition of identity in the correspondence of nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants

Keywords: Late Modern English | Scotland, Scottish English | correspondence | vernacular usage | person deixis | pronominal forms | nineteenth century | transatlantic emigration | self-representation

In: Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world, Hickey, Raymond (ed.) [Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 10] pp. 67–84

Milano, Federica Da & Pierluigi Cuzzolin 2020 AcI: Inheritance and influence on some languages of Western Europe

Keywords: Accusativus cum Infinitivo | Latinism | Romance languages | Germanic languages | complement clause | perception verbs | verbs of saying and thinking

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 33:1 pp. 108–124 | article

Dossena, Marina 2019 “There were always Indians passing to and fro”: Notes on the representation of Native Americans in CHET documents

In: Writing History in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus, Moskowich, Isabel, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo & Leida Maria Monaco (eds.)  pp. 21–39

Shvanyukova, Polina 2019 Promoting negative politeness in nineteenth-century England: The case of letter-writing manuals

Keywords: business correspondence | letter-writing guides | requests | negative politeness

In: Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick & Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299] pp. 171–196

Saturno, Jacopo 2019 Elicited imitation as a diagnostic tool of morpho-syntactic processing

In: Teachability and Learnability across Languages, Arntzen, Ragnar, Gisela Håkansson, Arnstein Hjelde & Jörg-U. Keßler (eds.) [Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 6] pp. 119–136

Dossena, Marina 2019 “With kindest regards”: Relational work, social identity and (hyper)politeness in Late Modern English documents

Keywords: nineteenth-century English | business discourse | usage guides | correspondence | politeness theory

In: Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick & Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299] pp. 197–218

Dossena, Marina 2019 The Prince and the Sassenach: Constructing group homogeneity through labels (and anachronisms) in Late Modern times and beyond

Keywords: Late Modern English | popular culture | onomastics | identity | argumentation

In: Reference and Identity in Public Discourses, Lutzky, Ursula & Minna Nevala (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 306] pp. 43–65

Inglese, Guglielmo 2018 A synchronic and diachronic typology of Hittite reciprocal constructions

Keywords: Hittite | Indo-European | reciprocal constructions | diachronic typology | middle voice | bipartite reciprocal markers | reflexivity and reciprocity

Studies in Language 41:4 p. 956 | article

Broggini, Susanna & Francesca Costa 2017 A survey of English-medium instruction in Italian higher education: An updated perspective from 2012 to 2015

Keywords: English-medium instruction | internationalisation | higher education | tertiary education | Italy

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 5:2 pp. 238–264 | article

Zanchi, Chiara 2017 New evidence for the Source–Goal asymmetry: Ancient Greek preverbs

Keywords: Ancient Greek | preverbs | Source–Goal asymmetry | grammaticalization | case syncretism

In: Space in Diachrony, Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina & Chiara Zanchi (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 188] pp. 147–178

Fedriani, Chiara & Michele Prandi 2016 Exploring a diachronic (re)cycle of roles: The Dative complex from Latin to Romance

Keywords: dative | grammaticalization | Latin | role complex | Romance languages

In: Advances in Research on Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo & Fernando Zúñiga (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 88] pp. 133–171

Fedriani, Chiara 2016 Ontological and orientational metaphors in Latin: Evidence from the semantics of feelings and emotions

Keywords: emotions | feelings | image schemas | metaphor | ontological metaphors | orientational metaphors | space

In: Embodiment in Latin Semantics, Short, William Michael (ed.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 174] pp. 115–140

Fage-Butler, Antoinette & Patrizia Anesa 2016 Discursive construction and negotiation of laity on an online health forum

Keywords: e-patient | online health forum | metapragmatics | poststructuralist discourse analysis | epistemic identity | health communication paradigms

Pragmatics and Society 7:2 pp. 196–216 | article

Ghezzi, Chiara & Piera Molinelli 2017 Politeness markers from Latin to Italian: Periphery, discourse structure and cyclicity

Keywords: politeness markers | periphery | pragmatic cycles | exchange structure | action structure

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 17:2 pp. 307–337 | article

Venier, Federica 2016 Review of Discourse and Pragmatic Markers from Latin to the Romance Languages edited by Chiara Ghezzi & Piera Molinelli (2014)

Revue Romane 50:2 pp. 330–333 | book review

Dossena, Marina 2015 Introduction

In: Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English, Dossena, Marina (ed.) [Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 4] pp. 1–12

Dossena, Marina 2015 “Across the ocean ferry”: Point of view, description and evaluation in nineteenth-century narrations of ocean crossings

In: Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English, Dossena, Marina (ed.) [Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 4] pp. 117–134

Pasquali, Francesca 2014 Authors, Readers, and Convergence Culture: Storytelling in the Social Network Era

In: New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia Expression: Crossing borders, crossing genres, Cornis-Pope, Marcel (ed.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXVII] pp. 324–330

Fedriani, Chiara & Michele Prandi 2014 Exploring a diachronic (re)cycle of roles: The Dative complex from Latin to Romance

Keywords: grammaticalization | dative | Latin | role complex | Romance languages

Studies in Language 38:3 pp. 566–604 | article

Fedriani, Chiara, Gianguido Manzelli & Paolo Ramat 2013 Gradualness in contact-induced constructional replication: The Abstract Possession construction in the Circum-Mediterranean area

In: Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri & Piera Molinelli (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 133] pp. 391–418

Seržant, Ilja A., Chiara Fedriani & Leonid Kulikov 2013 Introduction

In: The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects, Seržant, Ilja A. & Leonid Kulikov (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 140] pp. ix–xxvi

Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri & Piera Molinelli 2013 Synchrony and diachrony: Introduction to a dynamic interface

In: Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri & Piera Molinelli (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 133] pp. 1–24

Fedriani, Chiara 2013 The me pudet construction in the history of Latin: why and how fast non-canonical subjects come and go

In: The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects, Seržant, Ilja A. & Leonid Kulikov (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 140] pp. 203–230

Gotti, Maurizio 2012 Managing disputes with civility: On seventeenth-century argumentative discourse

In: Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics, Busse, Ulrich & Axel Hübler (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 220] p. 89

Dossena, Marina 2012 “I write you these few lines”: Metacommunication and pragmatics 
in nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants’ letters

In: Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics, Busse, Ulrich & Axel Hübler (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 220] pp. 45–64

Cuzzolin, Pierluigi 2012 Readers’ Corner

Journal of Historical Linguistics 2:1 pp. 3–6 | article

Guerini, Federica 2009 Review of Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages edited by Felix K. Ameka & M. E. Kropp Dakubu (2008)

Studies in Language 33:1 pp. 247–251 | book review

Gotti, Maurizio, Marina Dossena & Richard Dury 2008 Introduction

In: English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology, Gotti, Maurizio, Marina Dossena & Richard Dury (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 295] pp. ix–xiv

Gotti, Maurizio 2006 Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta (eds.). 2004. Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 7:1 pp. 149–153 | article

Dossena, Marina 2006 Scots

In: Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present, Deumert, Ana & Wim Vandenbussche (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 18] pp. 383–404

Bidese, Ermenegildo & Manuela Caterina Moroni The nature of modality: Werner Abraham’s perspective

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory | Online First Publication, 8 pp. | introduction | open access

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