Roma Tre University

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

Vagueness as an Implicitating Persuasive Strategy

Giorgia Mannaioli

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Semantics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 350] 2025. | monograph

Persuasion in Specialized Discourse: A multidisciplinary perspective

Edited by Chiara Degano, Dora Renna & Francesca Santulli

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Argumentation in Context, 22] 2024. | edited volume

From Pseudo-relatives to Causative Constructions: Scandinavian languages as a case study

Mara Frascarelli & Giorgia Di Lorenzo

Subjects Generative linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 278] 2022. | monograph

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

Dialogue in institutional settings: Special issue of Language and Dialogue 9:1 (2019)

Edited by Franca Orletti & Letizia Caronia

Subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Computational & corpus linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psychology | Sociology

[Language and Dialogue, 9:1] 2019. | special issue

Word Classes: Nature, typology and representations

Edited by Raffaele Simone & Francesca Masini

Subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 332] 2014. vii, 293 pp. |

Epistemic Modality: Functional properties and the Italian system

Paola Pietrandrea

Subjects Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Typology

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 74] 2005. xii, 232 pp. | monograph

Culture in Communication: Analyses of intercultural situations

Edited by Aldo Di Luzio, Susanne Günthner & Franca Orletti

Subjects Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 81] 2001. xvi, 341 pp. | edited volume

Iconicity in Language

Edited by Raffaele Simone

Subjects Functional linguistics | History of linguistics | Semiotics | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 110] 1995. xii, 315 pp. | edited volume

D’Achille, Paolo 2026 Le riflessioni di Pasolini sulla diversità linguistica tra nostalgie del passato e profezie per il futuro

In: The Loss of Primordial Language and the Future of National Languages, Capdevila, Irene & Francesc Feliu (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 47] pp. 13–24

Federici, Annalisa 2026 Medical lexicon and gender ideologies in nineteenth-century British periodicals: The pathologisation of the female body and mind in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1805–1855)

Keywords: medical lexicon | gender ideologies | The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal | psychophysical pathology | female disease

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] pp. 242–257

Masia, Viviana 2025 Review of Vagueness as an implicitating persuasive strategy by Giorgia Mannaioli (2025)

Journal of Argumentation in Context 14:2 pp. 266–273 | book review

Kisiel, Anna, Hélène Vassiliadou, Valentina Benigni, Beatrice Bernasconi, Lieselotte Brems & Dejan Stosic 2026 Introduction

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:2 pp. 179–188 | introduction | open access

Conti, Sergio, Laura Locatelli, Daniele Brombal & Pui Yiu Szeto 2025 The language of ESG sustainability reports of Chinese listed companies: A preliminary corpus-assisted keyword analysis from an ecolinguistic perspective

Keywords: ecolinguistics | Chinese sustainability reports | ESG | keyword analysis | corpus-assisted discourse studies | 生态语言学 | 中国可持续发展报告 | 环境、社会和治理 | 关键词分析 | 语料库辅助的话语研究

Chinese Language and Discourse | Online First Publication, 60 pp. | article

Zanotti, Serenella 2025 In pursuit of the cinematic experience: Film translation in the late silent era

Keywords: silent film translation | Charlie Chaplin | intertitles | re-editing | Guglielmo Giannini

Translation Spaces | Online First Publication, 24 pp. | article

Benigni, Valentina & Beatrice Bernasconi 2026 “Stylish” similatives: A corpus-based study of style nouns in Italian and Russian

Keywords: similarity | manner | Russian | Italian | corpus-based research

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:2 pp. 323–347 | article

Coppola, Claudia, Giorgia Mannaioli & Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri 2024 Vagueness and ambiguity are very different (persuasion devices)

Keywords: vagueness | ambiguity | persuasion | epistemic vigilance | implicit meaning | cognitive linguistics | experimental pragmatics

In: Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria & Chiara Zanchi (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 347] pp. 51–83

Ferretti, Francesco 2024 Narrative and pantomime at the origin of language

Keywords: pantomime | narrative | language origin | persuasion | protolanguage

In: Perspectives on Pantomime, Żywiczyński, Przemysław, Johan Blomberg & Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska (eds.) [Advances in Interaction Studies, 12] pp. 78–99

Lombardi Vallauri, Edoardo 2024 Aggression and disagreement in public communication: Convincing third parties through implicit strategies

Keywords: public argumentation | face-threatening acts | implicatures | presuppositions | manipulation | implicit content explicitation

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 12:1 pp. 41–65 | article

Masia, Viviana 2024 The evidential dimension of implicitly conveyed disagreement in political debates

Keywords: implicit communication | evidentiality | disagreement | manipulation | political discourse

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 12:1 pp. 66–88 | article

Giunta, Giulia & Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri 2024 Teaching to manage implicit linguistic meanings: The state of the art and future perspectives

Keywords: manipulation through implicitness | education on public communication | TV platforms | online resources | teaching critical attention

In: Persuasion in Specialized Discourse: A multidisciplinary perspective, Degano, Chiara, Dora Renna & Francesca Santulli (eds.) [Argumentation in Context, 22] pp. 211–231

Degano, Chiara 2024 Establishing starting points in Editorials: An analysis of the Brexit debate in the UK

Keywords: editorials | agreement | starting points | Brexit | populism

In: Persuasion in Specialized Discourse: A multidisciplinary perspective, Degano, Chiara, Dora Renna & Francesca Santulli (eds.) [Argumentation in Context, 22] pp. 46–70

Degano, Chiara, Dora Renna & Francesca Santulli 2024 Genres and persuasion1 : Linguistic and argumentation perspectives

In: Persuasion in Specialized Discourse: A multidisciplinary perspective, Degano, Chiara, Dora Renna & Francesca Santulli (eds.) [Argumentation in Context, 22] pp. 1–23

Nuccorini, Stefania 2023 Teaching phraseology in the 19th century: John Charles Tarver’s Royal phraseological English–French, French–English dictionary

In: Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: Historical perspectives, Smith, Richard & Tim Giesler (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 20] pp. 43–58

Masia, Viviana, Davide Garassino, Nicola Brocca & Louis de Saussure 2023 Recalling presupposed information: Evidence from the online processing of presuppositions in political tweets

Keywords: presupposition | shallow processing | information recall and retrieval | Twitter

Pragmatics & Cognition 30:1 p. 92 | article

Bruti, Silvia & Serenella Zanotti 2023 “Don’t talk out loud, you lower the IQ of the whole street”: Impoliteness strategies in Sherlock across AVT modes and languages

Keywords: impoliteness | telecinematic language | TV series | Sherlock | dubbing | subtitling

In: Pragmatics and Translation, Locher, Miriam A., Daria Dayter & Thomas C. Messerli (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 337] pp. 148–172

Ganfi, Vittorio, Valentina Piunno & Lunella Mereu 2022 Body part metaphors in phraseological expressions: A comparative survey of Italian, Spanish, French and English

Keywords: phraseological expressions | body part nouns | metaphorical relations | European languages | Italian/Spanish/French/English

Languages in Contrast 23:1 pp. 1–33 | article

Mohnke, Margaux, Ursula Christmann, Yannick Roos & Chris Thomale 2022 Do metaphors make opinions?: An empirical study on the effect of metaphorical framing on the opinion on surrogacy

Keywords: Metaphorical framing | opinion | language | surrogacy | politics

Metaphor and the Social World 12:1 p. 92 | article

Vallauri, Edoardo Lombardi 2022 Distinguishing psychological Given/New from linguistic Topic/Focus makes things clearer

Keywords: information structure | cleft sentences | topic and focus | given and new | syntax and prosody

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. 39–56

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

Zuaro, Beatrice, Josep Soler & Beyza Björkman-Nylén 2022 Language policy in Italian universities: Navigating the language ambiguities of higher education internationalisation

Keywords: English-medium instruction | English | higher education | Italian | language policy

Language Problems and Language Planning 46:3 pp. 231–255 | article | open access

Nuzzo, Elena 2022 Tandem interaction enhancement: Manipulating NS-NNS semi-spontaneous conversation to promote focus on form

In: Second Language Acquisition Theory: The legacy of professor Michael H. Long, Benati, Alessandro G. & John W. Schwieter (eds.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 14] pp. 113–126

Frascarelli, Mara & Giorgia Di Lorenzo 2022 From pseudo-relatives to causative constructions: Scandinavian languages as a case study

In: From Pseudo-relatives to Causative Constructions: Scandinavian languages as a case study, Frascarelli, Mara & Giorgia Di Lorenzo[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 278]

Degano, Chiara 2021 Review of Argumentation in Prime Minister’s Question Time. Accusation of inconsistency in response to criticism by Dima Mohammed (2018)

Journal of Argumentation in Context 10:3 pp. 424–428 | book review

Degano, Chiara 2021 

Journal of Argumentation in Context 10:2 pp. 273–277 | book review

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.

Frascarelli, Mara 2021 The interpretation of null subjects in Romanian: An information-structure approach for comparative analysis

Keywords: null subjects | consistent/partial pro-drop | Topic Criterion | Topic Chain | A-Topic | G-Topic | silent Topic | locality

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest, Nicolae, Alexandru & Adina Dragomirescu (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 355] pp. 111–134

Frascarelli, Mara & Tania Stortini 2021 Combining Focus VS and Topic constructions: The acquisition of discourse and conversational dynamics strategies in child Italian

Keywords: Italian | conversational dynamics | Focus | Topic | (postverbal) subject

In: L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance, Avram, Larisa, Anca Sevcenco & Veronica Tomescu (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 65] pp. 259–288

Merlino, Sara 2021 Haptics and emotions in speech and language therapy sessions for people with post-stroke aphasia

Keywords: aphasia | stroke | speech and language therapy | haptics | touch | multimodality | embodied displays of emotions | emotion regulation | soothing | caring

In: How Emotions Are Made in Talk, Robles, Jessica S. & Ann Weatherall (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 321] pp. 233–262

Lombardi Vallauri, Edoardo, Laura Baranzini, Doriana Cimmino, Federica Cominetti, Claudia Coppola & Giorgia Mannaioli 2020 Implicit argumentation and persuasion: A measuring model

Keywords: implicit communication | manipulative discourse | political speech | implicatures | presuppositions

Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1 p. 95 | article

Zanotti, Serenella 2020 Translaboration in a film context: Stanley Kubrick’s collaborative approach to translation

Keywords: Stanley Kubrick | dubbing | subtitling | collaborative translation | archives

Target 32:2 pp. 217–238 | article

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

Piunno, Valentina & Vittorio Ganfi 2021 Synchronic and diachronic analysis of prepositional multiword modifiers across Romance languages

Keywords: prepositional phrase | multiword modifiers | diatopic and diachronic analysis | Latin | Old Italian | Old Spanish | Middle French

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:2 pp. 352–379 | article

Romagnoli, Chiara & Sergio Conti 2020 How and how much?: Vocabulary learning strategies and vocabulary size in CFL

Keywords: Chinese vocabulary | learning strategies | vocabulary size | proficiency level | 汉语词汇 | 学习策略 | 词汇量 | 语言水平

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 54:2 p. 93 | article

Orletti, Franca 2019 Latin as a tool for social differentiation and epistemic asymmetry: The language of medicine

Keywords: language of medicine | Latinism | epistemic asymmetry | language for specific purposes | doctor-patient interaction

Language and Dialogue 9:1 pp. 106–124 | article

Caronia, Letizia & Franca Orletti 2019 The agency of language in institutional talk: An introduction

Keywords: agency of language | institutional talk | interactional (socio)linguistics | phenomenology | pragmatics

Language and Dialogue 9:1 pp. 1–27 | introduction

Piunno, Valentina & Vittorio Ganfi 2019 Usage-based account of Italian Complex Prepositions denoting the Agent

Keywords: Italian complex prepositions | Agent marking | diachronic analysis | grammaticalization

Revue Romane 54:1 pp. 141–175 | article

Zanotti, Serenella 2019 Auteur dubbing: Translation, performance and authorial control in the dubbed versions of Stanley Kubrick’s films

Keywords: dubbing | film translation | authorial control | Stanley Kubrick | archival research

In: Reassessing Dubbing: Historical approaches and current trends, Ranzato, Irene & Serenella Zanotti (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 148] p. 79

D’Errico, Francesca & Marinella Paciello 2019 Online moral struggles in hosting immigrant’s discourses: The underlying role of expressed anger and socio-cognitive processes

Keywords: hosting immigrants | social media discussions | moral processes | prosocial stances | anger intensity | online emotions

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 7:2 pp. 182–209 | article

Masia, Viviana 2017 A sociobiological account of indirect speech

Keywords: Theory of Mind | exaptation | political discourse | cognitive fallacies

Interaction Studies 18:1 pp. 142–160 | article

Frascarelli, Mara & Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández 2017 Subextraction at the Discourse-Grammar interface: A featural approach to island effects

Keywords: focus fronting | subextraction | specificity | Aboutness-shift Topic | interfaces

In: Boundaries, phases, and interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte, Fernández-Soriano, Olga, Elena Castroviejo & Isabel Párez-Jimánez (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 239] pp. 223–254

Pettini, Silvia 2018 Translating literature into playability: The case of Dante’s Inferno

Keywords: literature | video games | remediation | game localisation | translation

The Journal of Internationalization and Localization 4:2 pp. 100–119 | article

Lombardi Vallauri, Edoardo 2016 Chapter 6. Insubordinated conditionals in spoken and non-spoken Italian

In: Insubordination, Evans, Nicholas & Honoré Watanabe (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 115] pp. 145–170

Romagnoli, Chiara 2016 Explicit, implicit and metalinguistic knowledge in L2 Chinese

Keywords: explicit knowledge | implicit knowledge | L2 Chinese | metalinguistic knowledge

In: Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning, Tao, Hongyin (ed.) [Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 7] pp. 81–96

Annicchiarico, Annamaria 2016 La storia di Ero e Leandro

In: The Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Roís de Corella: A multilingual edition of a classic from the Crown of Aragon, Rois de Corella, Joan, Antonio Cortijo Ocaña & Josep-Lluis Martos[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 12] pp. 179–192

Pettini, Silvia 2016 Auteurism and game localization — revisiting translational approaches: Film quotations in multimedia interactive entertainment

Keywords: film culture | game translation | game localization | loyalty | auteurism

Translation Spaces 4:2 pp. 268–288 | article

Simone, Raffaele & Francesca Masini 2014 Introduction: New approaches to old Word Class issues

In: Word Classes: Nature, typology and representations, Simone, Raffaele & Francesca Masini (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 332] pp. 1–14

Simone, Raffaele & Francesca Masini 2014 On Light Nouns

In: Word Classes: Nature, typology and representations, Simone, Raffaele & Francesca Masini (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 332] pp. 51–74

Frascarelli, Mara & Francesca Ramaglia 2013 (Pseudo)clefts at the syntax-prosody-discourse interface

In: Cleft Structures, Hartmann, Katharina & Tonjes Veenstra (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 208] p. 97

Frascarelli, Mara & Francesca Ramaglia 2013 ‘Phasing’ contrast at the interfaces: A feature-compositional approach to Topics

In: Information Structure and Agreement, Camacho-Taboada, Victoria, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González & Mariano Reyes-Tejedor (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 197] pp. 55–82

Frascarelli, Mara 2010 Intonation, information structure and the derivation of inverse VO languages

In: Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics, Mercado, Raphael, Eric Potsdam & Lisa deMena Travis (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 167] p. 81

Lombardi Vallauri, Edoardo 2010 Free conditionals in discourse: The forming of a construction

Keywords: constructions | discourse | free conditionals | Italian syntax | spoken language | linguistic acts | pragmaticalization | grammaticalization

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 33:1 pp. 50–85 | article

Pietrandrea, Paola 2008  Certamente and sicuramente: Encoding dynamic and discursive aspects of commitment in Italian

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 22:1 pp. 221–246 | article

Poggi, Isabella 2008 Iconicity in different types of gestures

Keywords: gestures | generation of iconic gestures | iconicity

Gesture 8:1 pp. 45–61 | article

Poggi, Isabella 2005 The goals of persuasion

Keywords: appeal to emotion | argumentation | persuasion | social influence | speech acts | goals | hierarchy of goals

Pragmatics & Cognition 13:2 pp. 297–335 | 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

Poggi, Isabella 2008 The lexicon of the Conductor’s face

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. 271–284

Poggi, Isabella 2003 Symbolic gestures: The case of the Italian gestionary

Keywords: rhetorical figures | gestural lexicon | Italian gestures of hearing people

Gesture 2:1 pp. 71–98 | article

Lombardi Vallauri, Edoardo 2001 The role of discourse, syntax and the lexicon in determining the nature and extent of focus

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 23:2 pp. 229–252 | article

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