Investigating English with Corpora
Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat
Aurelia Martelli and Virginia Pulcini
Abstract
This volume is a tribute to Maria Teresa Prat and to her long and outstanding career at the University of Turin. In the course of her intense activity as a scholar of English language and linguistics in Italy, she has participated in the birth and development of the discipline – Lingua Inglese – both in terms of scientific production and institutional debate. Her remarkable contribution to some major research areas of English language and linguistics – education and curriculum design, English grammar, lexis and corpus linguistics – are worthy of recognition and appreciation by Italian academia.
The unifying theme of this Festschrift in honour of Maria Teresa Prat is the study of English with the aid of corpora. The articles included in this volume focus on ‘corpus data’ of different types, from collections of language samples, smaller ad hoc specialized corpora, to already existing large corpora such as the British National Corpus. The contributors to the volume are friends and colleagues from the University of Turin and from other Italian universities who have kindly offered to write about aspects of their ongoing research related to the principles and methodology of corpus linguistics. Thus, this volume offers an interesting snapshot of research areas and topics investigated with the support of corpus data. The articles are grouped around six major areas, namely Discourse Analysis, Lexicology and Lexicography, Translation, Specialized Discourse, English Language Teaching and Historical Studies.
Information
Type: Collection
Language(s): English
Year: 2008
Project: English Library
Number of page(s): 435
Code (printed): ISBN 978-88-7699-103-5, ISSN 1974-0603
Code (electronic): ISBN 978-88-7699-104-2, ISSN 1974-0670 - Open Access Publication
Book Sections
1. Corpora and Discourse Analysis
Paul Bayley (2008) Weakness and fear: a fragment of corpus-assisted discourse analysis. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 37-54.
Giuseppina Cortese (2008) Personal narratives in children’s rights discourse. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 55-70.
Roberta Facchinetti (2008) The illocutionary force of interrogatives in English varieties. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 71-84.
John Morley and Alan Partington (2008) The perception of citizenship in the English press. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 85-98.
Martin Solly (2008) Job ads and the construction of identity in contemporary English primary education. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 99-118.
2. Corpora in Lexicology and Lexicography
Stephen Coffey (2008) Remarks on the frequency and phraseology of A/AN in Modern English. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 121-136.
Valerio Fissore and Ruth Anne Henderson (2008) Disambiguation of English pre- and postmodified noun phrases. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 137-152.
Cristiano Furiassi (2008) What dictionaries leave out: new non-adapted Anglicisms in Italian. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 153-170.
Stefania Nuccorini (2008) ‘Phraseologies’ and Italian-English dictionaries: evidence for a proposal. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 171-188.
Virginia Pulcini (2008) ‘Corpora and lexicography: the case of a dictionary of Anglicisms. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 189-204.
3. Corpora and Translation
Silvia Bruti and Maria Pavesi (2008) Interjections in translated Italian: looking for traces of dubbed language. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 207-222.
Sara Laviosa (2008) Corpus studies of translation universals: a critical appraisal. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 223-238.
Vincenza Minutella (2008) “What’s in a name?” References to women in Romeo and Juliet and their translation into Italian. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 239-256.
Margherita Ulrych and Simona Anselmi (2008) Towards a corpus-based distinction between language-specific and universal features of mediated discourse. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 257-274.
4. Corpora and Specialized Discourse
Julia Bamford (2008) Telling a convincing story: a corpus-assisted analysis of business presentations. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 277-292.
Marina Bondi and Davide Mazzi (2008) “In this article, we focus on…”: metadiscourse across disciplines. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 293-310.
Sandra Campagna (2008) Refreshing the globe? A corpus-based study of ‘corporate ethos’. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 311-326.
Maurizio Gotti (2008) CADIS – A Corpus of Academic Discourse. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 327-340.
5. Corpora and English Language Teaching
Guy Aston (2008) It’s only human…. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 343-354.
Umberto Capra (2008) Keeping the corpus-based promise to language teaching in schools: the need for a quantum leap. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 355-364.
Aurelia Martelli (2008) Error analysis and learner corpora: a study of errors in the written production by English students of Italian. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 365-378.
Maria Cecilia Rizzardi, Luciana Pedrazzini and Andrea Nava (2008) The Role-Play Learner Corpus: a resource for investigating learner language. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 379-398.
6. Corpora and Historical Studies
Marina Dossena and Richard Dury (2008) 19CSC, second-generation corpora and the history of English. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 401-412.
Gerardo Mazzaferro (2008) Language change and variation in English: the case of unsplit FOR TO in infinitival purpose clauses. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 413-422.
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Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat
Aurelia Martelli and Virginia Pulcini
Abstract
This volume is a tribute to Maria Teresa Prat and to her long and outstanding career at the University of Turin. In the course of her intense activity as a scholar of English language and linguistics in Italy, she has participated in the birth and development of the discipline – Lingua Inglese – both in terms of scientific production and institutional debate. Her remarkable contribution to some major research areas of English language and linguistics – education and curriculum design, English grammar, lexis and corpus linguistics – are worthy of recognition and appreciation by Italian academia.
The unifying theme of this Festschrift in honour of Maria Teresa Prat is the study of English with the aid of corpora. The articles included in this volume focus on ‘corpus data’ of different types, from collections of language samples, smaller ad hoc specialized corpora, to already existing large corpora such as the British National Corpus. The contributors to the volume are friends and colleagues from the University of Turin and from other Italian universities who have kindly offered to write about aspects of their ongoing research related to the principles and methodology of corpus linguistics. Thus, this volume offers an interesting snapshot of research areas and topics investigated with the support of corpus data. The articles are grouped around six major areas, namely Discourse Analysis, Lexicology and Lexicography, Translation, Specialized Discourse, English Language Teaching and Historical Studies.
Information
Type: Collection
Language(s): English
Year: 2008
Project: English Library
Number of page(s): 435
Code (printed): ISBN 978-88-7699-103-5, ISSN 1974-0603
Code (electronic): ISBN 978-88-7699-104-2, ISSN 1974-0670 - Open Access Publication
Book Sections
1. Corpora and Discourse Analysis
Paul Bayley (2008) Weakness and fear: a fragment of corpus-assisted discourse analysis. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 37-54.
Giuseppina Cortese (2008) Personal narratives in children’s rights discourse. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 55-70.
Roberta Facchinetti (2008) The illocutionary force of interrogatives in English varieties. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 71-84.
John Morley and Alan Partington (2008) The perception of citizenship in the English press. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 85-98.
Martin Solly (2008) Job ads and the construction of identity in contemporary English primary education. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 99-118.
2. Corpora in Lexicology and Lexicography
Stephen Coffey (2008) Remarks on the frequency and phraseology of A/AN in Modern English. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 121-136.
Valerio Fissore and Ruth Anne Henderson (2008) Disambiguation of English pre- and postmodified noun phrases. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 137-152.
Cristiano Furiassi (2008) What dictionaries leave out: new non-adapted Anglicisms in Italian. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 153-170.
Stefania Nuccorini (2008) ‘Phraseologies’ and Italian-English dictionaries: evidence for a proposal. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 171-188.
Virginia Pulcini (2008) ‘Corpora and lexicography: the case of a dictionary of Anglicisms. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 189-204.
3. Corpora and Translation
Silvia Bruti and Maria Pavesi (2008) Interjections in translated Italian: looking for traces of dubbed language. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 207-222.
Sara Laviosa (2008) Corpus studies of translation universals: a critical appraisal. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 223-238.
Vincenza Minutella (2008) “What’s in a name?” References to women in Romeo and Juliet and their translation into Italian. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 239-256.
Margherita Ulrych and Simona Anselmi (2008) Towards a corpus-based distinction between language-specific and universal features of mediated discourse. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 257-274.
4. Corpora and Specialized Discourse
Julia Bamford (2008) Telling a convincing story: a corpus-assisted analysis of business presentations. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 277-292.
Marina Bondi and Davide Mazzi (2008) “In this article, we focus on…”: metadiscourse across disciplines. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 293-310.
Sandra Campagna (2008) Refreshing the globe? A corpus-based study of ‘corporate ethos’. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 311-326.
Maurizio Gotti (2008) CADIS – A Corpus of Academic Discourse. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 327-340.
5. Corpora and English Language Teaching
Guy Aston (2008) It’s only human…. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 343-354.
Umberto Capra (2008) Keeping the corpus-based promise to language teaching in schools: the need for a quantum leap. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 355-364.
Aurelia Martelli (2008) Error analysis and learner corpora: a study of errors in the written production by English students of Italian. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 365-378.
Maria Cecilia Rizzardi, Luciana Pedrazzini and Andrea Nava (2008) The Role-Play Learner Corpus: a resource for investigating learner language. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 379-398.
6. Corpora and Historical Studies
Marina Dossena and Richard Dury (2008) 19CSC, second-generation corpora and the history of English. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 401-412.
Gerardo Mazzaferro (2008) Language change and variation in English: the case of unsplit FOR TO in infinitival purpose clauses. In: Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 413-422.
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