Books in the Linguistic Insights series

This book explores the evolution of sentiment in economic terms in the press during financial crises applying a combination of sentiment analysis techniques and usage fluctuation analysis on a diachronic corpus derived from editorials in quality newspapers during the Great Recession. The book uncovers two key findings: first, certain economic terms become event words during times of crisis due to their increased use in the press and the general public, revealing rapid semantic changes in economic terms caused by major socio-economic events. Second, sentiment-laden collocations are found to be influenced by culture, highlighting language¿s adaptability to financial upheavals. This work proposes an innovative methodology that combines lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, and qualitative Discourse Analysis to shed light on how language shapes economic discourse, making it a valuable resource for scholars exploring the relationship between language and historic events.

The main assumption proposed in this book is that legislative drafting represents an example of professional discourse, where the propositions of specialized information is translated into meanings, and such meanings are given as input to the rules and strategies of grammatical formulation. A relevant question for our understanding of modern legislative process is related to the effects of ¿context¿ at different levels, within which legislative process takes place. By looking at those levels, the analysis conducted in the book demonstrates that it becomes possible to reach a deeper understanding of the professional groups taking part in the process, better assess the lexico-grammatical and textual features of its final product (i.e., normative texts), and suggest alternative linguistic and textual strategies aimed at making texts more accessible to potential readers and/or intended users.

Una curiosità per le radici della fraseologia anima i ventiquattro contributi riuniti in questo volume, articolati in quattro sezioni. Nella prima (Parte I. Fraseologia e Cultura), alcuni contributi si propongono di sondare, in diacronia e in prospettiva filogenetica, la talvolta lontana provenienza di questo patrimonio espressivo così caratteristico di ciascuna lingua. Più orientate, invece, verso una conoscenza in fieri, le parti successive ragionano su quali strumenti performanti concepire per osservare in statu nascendi (II. Fraseologia nel linguaggio economico, giuridico e politico), conservare (III. Fraseografia) e tramandare (IV. Fraseodidattica) tali espressioni così eloquenti e saporite.

This book focuses on the linguistic needs of university students enrolled in English Medium Instruction (EMI) programmes in which disciplinary subjects are taught in English, a practice that has significantly risen over the last 20 years. It includes seven online, self-study modules (Creating outlines, concept maps, writing definitions, writing summaries, reporting data, the language of presentations and writing abstracts) that were designed after conducting specific research into students¿ needs in terms of academic genres and language functions. All these modules were piloted with students in different degree programmes. The piloting confirmed the suitability of the materials for EMI undergraduate and postgraduate learners and the benefits of following a genre-based approach in this specific context.

Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues presents ground-breaking research on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. The book includes papers on key theoretical issues (the nature of evidential inference and the challengeability criterion for evidentiality), and descriptive studies covering various European languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Catalan and Latvian), based on general corpora or specific discourse types. The prominent corpus-based contrastive methodology uncovers a wide range of idiosyncratic discourse-pragmatic features of diverse languages, discourses and genres. The contributions are representative of the work on evidentiality and epistemic modality in a substantial number of countries.

This volume is a collection of studies dealing with age or, rather, ages, mainly from a linguistic viewpoint, but also accommodating inputs from other disciplinary perspectives. It focuses on the linguistic, social, economic and ethical aspects of social groups defined in terms of age ¿ which clearly includes seniors but is, of course, not limited to that. In a global setting where spaces are constantly being redefined, new technologies and phenomena like the COVID-19 pandemic exert a substantial influence on how ages are perceived, seen and constructed. Within such a complex and multi-layered context, the chapters of this book provide attempts at showcasing realities connected with language, ages and, in general, the discourses surrounding them.

Este volumen contribuye al desarrollo de la investigación en español sobre análisis del discurso de género asistido por corpus y, a la vez, disecciona las prácticas sociales que construyen discursivamente la violencia contra la mujer, las identidades de género, las sexualidades y los estereotipos socialmente implantados, a partir de los contextos escolares y académicos. Acudiendo al concepto de género como categoría de análisis y trasformación social y a las herramientas de la lingüística de corpus, cada capítulo logra desenmascarar la ideología patriarcal y heteronormativa subyacente en los discursos examinados, para deconstruir las jerarquías tradicionales de poder entre los sexos y el binarismo de género que siguen generando antítesis y desigualdad en el mundo contemporáneo.

La présente étude vise à reconstruire l'évolution de la terminologie des fibres textiles en français à partir du XVIIIe siècle jusqüà nos jours, avec une attention particulière à la néologie dans le domaine des fibres chimiques. La recherche s¿inscrit dans le cadre théorique des études de terminologie diachronique menées depuis les années 2010 en Italie dans le but d¿approfondir la relation entre l¿évolution de la terminologie et le développement technique, scientifique et culturel. L¿approche adoptée permet de retracer l'évolution linguistique et conceptuelle du domaine, ainsi que d¿obtenir des informations intéressantes sur l'évolution sociétale et culturelle. Ses applications se trouvent également dans le domaine de l'histoire des sciences, des techniques et de la société.

The specialised language of fashion draws the research interest of linguists and semioticians as well as communication experts and fashion historians. This volume contributes to advancing the knowledge of crucial aspects in the language of fashion that still need deep investigation. It brings together contributions that shed light on the morphological, lexical, pragmatic, and cultural aspects of the language of fashion, without ignoring cognitive and semiotic phenomena. The diversity of topics and perspectives of the chapters presented here testifies to the variety and vitality of scientific research in the complex and multifaceted language of fashion.

This volume focuses on vocabulary size, vocabulary knowledge, affix acquisition, pronunciation, translanguaging, language learning strategies, considerations of oral participation and academic adaptation. Contexts explored are Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Japan and Thailand. Education levels explored are elementary, secondary and tertiary.

The book presents the Triple-Decker Model that describes the interactive mechanism among key constituents of English for Specific Purposes Ability (ESPA): language knowledge, strategic competence and background knowledge (nursing knowledge).

This book is concerned with frequency in foreign language learning, in particular with contrastive frequency across English and Italian, and to what degree this is captured in dictionaries. With the aid of corpus analysis, this survey brings out unexpected frequency differences in the areas of lexis, grammar and collocation.

This book illustrates the advantage of a diachronic perspective to learning and teaching language and translation. This perspective is applied to English spelling pedagogy, translation studies, bilingual education, approaches to teaching culture, new genre development, aspects of legal English, and meaning shifts in American lexis.

This book explores subjectless ing- and ed-supplement constructions in the recent history of English from a corpus-based perspective in an attempt to provide their syntactic and semantic characterisation in terms of prototypicality and to describe diachronic variation in Late Modern and Present-day English.

This volume aims at bridging the gap between LSP translation, gender issues, and the professional world. The purpose is to broaden the discussion on gender awareness in LSP and translation.

This book explores if/si-constructions in spoken English, French and Spanish, from a functional-pragmatic and corpus-based perspective. The data are retrieved from parliamentary discourse and conversations corpora.

The volume examines the role of context in the production and reception of historical news texts from the 17th until the 20th centuries. The authors use various methodological approaches comprising historical pragmatics and corpus linguistics. The volume is divided into: British News Contexts, International News Contexts, and Advertising Contexts

In the early nineteenth century the theory and practice of translation received special attention in Italy, a country that was still trying to define itself. Translation, particularly from English, became a means of enriching the Italian language, culture and literature, laying the foundations for the construction of a new national identity.

The monograph focuses on the characterization and history of the English reaction object construction (ROC) from the perspective of Diachronic Construction Grammar.

This volume explores discourse mainly through corpus linguistics methods. Indeed, Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies has become a widely used methodology for the critical (or non-critical) analysis of discourses in recent times.

Verbs of Desire underwent important changes in the course of their histories. In earlier English they could be used impersonally in constructions lacking a nominative subject. When impersonal uses are lost, they are gradually replaced by personal patterns, in particular a pattern where the verb governs a prepositional complement.

The various chapters of the book offer a theoretical reflection on the metaphor and its use in argumentation. The central focus, at an epistemological and rhetorical-pragmatic level, is on the relationship between metaphor and conflict.

Two complementary case studies are presented. First, a cross-varietal study indicates that high-contact varieties of English exhibit a higher attestation rate of pronoun omission than low-contact varieties. Second, a corpus-based study demonstrates that pronouns are commonly omitted in contexts in which their antecedents can be easily identified.