Positioning the Self and Others: Linguistic perspectives
Edited by Kate Beeching, Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 292] 2018. vi, 316 pp.
Piera Molinelli
List of John Benjamins publications for which Piera Molinelli plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface
Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 133] 2013. xi, 450 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
2024 Chapter 3. Cultural products, passing fashions, and linguistic changes: A view from the Italian pragmatic marker ma vieni Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages, Pons Bordería, Salvador and Shima Salameh Jiménez (eds.), pp. 95–119 | Chapter
This study explores the emergence and conventionalization of the Italian pragmatic marker ma vieni ‘hooray’ (lit. ‘but come’) in the short micro-diachrony of the past thirty years, considering both extra-linguistic and systemic factors. We show that a number of audio-visual media helped trigger… read more
2022 Managing turns, building common ground, planning discourse: Discursive and interpersonal functions of Italian no(?) Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives, Beeching, Kate, Grant Howie, Minna Kirjavainen and Anna Piasecki (eds.), pp. 347–369 | Article
This paper discusses the discursive and interpersonal functions conveyed by the Italian negative operator no(?) ‘no’, suggesting a possible pathway of functional enrichment that can account for its high degree of polyfunctionality. Drawing on the KIParla corpus of contemporary spoken Italian, we… read more
2020 Functional expansions of temporal adverbs and discursive connectives: From Latin tum, tunc, dumque to Old Italian dunque The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt (ed.), pp. 182–207 | Article
This paper examines the synchronic competition and diachronic substitution of three Latin temporal expressions: tum, tunc (‘at that time’, ‘then’), and later dumque (originally, ‘while-and’), and its Old Italian outcome dunque (‘then’). Besides providing a new path of development and a new… read more
2020 Connectives and cyclicity: From the Latin temporal phrase illa hora to the Italian discourse marker allora The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt (ed.), pp. 208–235 | Article
This paper focuses on the formal and functional development of Italian allora (< Latin ad illa(m) hora(m) [‘in that hour’]) ‘at that time, then, well’ considering its polyfunctionality and its relationship with the functional space of dunque (‘then, therefore’). The developments of both forms… read more
2018 Chapter 1. Introduction Positioning the Self and Others: Linguistic perspectives, Beeching, Kate, Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
2018 Chapter 3. Sociocultural and linguistic constraints in address choice from Latin to Italian Positioning the Self and Others: Linguistic perspectives, Beeching, Kate, Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 51–79 | Chapter
This chapter identifies the changes which led from the Early Latin address system, when address choice was unmarked as to the reverential dimension, to Late Latin, when such functions progressively emerged establishing the opposition between tu and Vos (2pl), and then to the Italian system.… read more
2016 Politeness markers from Latin to Italian: Periphery, discourse structure and cyclicity Periphery – Diachronic and Cross-Linguistic Approaches, Higashiizumi, Yuko, Noriko O. Onodera and Sung-Ock S. Sohn (eds.), pp. 307–337 | Article
This study compares the development of the Latin and Italian politeness markers quaeso and prego (‘please’). The markers, originally performative verbs meaning ‘I ask, I pray’, have developed politeness-related functions which index the action structure (i.e., polite requests) and the exchange… read more
2013 Synchrony and diachrony: Introduction to a dynamic interface Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
2000 Sequence of tenses and mood selection in Late Latin Papers on Grammar: Volume V, Calboli, Gualtiero (ed.), pp. 125 ff. | Article
1989 Double negation from Latin to Italian Subordination and Other Topics in Latin: Proceedings of the Third Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Bologna, 1–5 April 1985, Calboli, Gualtiero (ed.), pp. 611–636 | Article