Valentina Concu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Valentina Concu is involved.
Articles
2026 Offers in the Old Saxon Hêliand: Illocutionary force, recipient agency and speech representation Journal of Historical Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines offers in the Hêliand, an Old Saxon gospel harmony, using a combined form-to-function and function-to-form approach. Offers are also classified according to speech representation mode and role configuration to assess how recipient agency and illocutionary force are shaped in… read more
2024 “Ih gebiude dir, wurm!”: Directives in Old Saxon and Old High German Journal of Historical Pragmatics 25:1, pp. 137–175 | Article
The number of diachronic studies on English speech acts has recently increased remarkably, highlighting the importance of these phenomena for the understanding of the contextualised dimension of linguistic interactions. Recent studies on the realisation of directives in Old English have shown… read more