Roberta Facchinetti

List of John Benjamins publications for which Roberta Facchinetti plays a role.

Journal

Title

Revisiting Shakespeare's Language

Edited by Annalisa Baicchi, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani and Antonio Bertacca

Special issue of English Text Construction 11:1 (2018) v, 168 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | English linguistics | English literature & literary studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Baicchi, Annalisa, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani and Antonio Bertacca 2018 Shakespeare’s language revisited in the 21st century: An introductionRevisiting Shakespeare's Language, Baicchi, Annalisa, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani and Antonio Bertacca (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Introduction
Facchinetti, Roberta and Elisabetta Adami 2008 Intersubjective patterns of English modalised mental state verbsEnglish Text Construction 1:2, pp. 198–225 | Article
We survey a set of syntactic configurations resulting from the modalisation of the mental verbs know, see and think in different varieties of English. The patterns are identified as falling within two discourse functions expressing intersubjectivity: (a) recognising the other without taking over… read more
The paper highlights and discusses some practical issues related to the drawbacks and pitfalls of computerised texts in regard to both databases themselves and the software employed to codify and search them. In the first place, some corpora and databases are compiled in such a way as to be… read more