Elisa Mattiello
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisa Mattiello |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Mattiello |
| SIGNATURE | MATTIELLO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pisa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9885-0262 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Extramural Language Learning: An Investigation of English Slang among Italian University Students
The global spread of English and its role as a lingua franca coincide with its dominance in the media, creating new opportunities for informal exposure. While extramural English learning has been studied in Northern and Central Europe, Italy remains relatively underexplored. This study examines the informal acquisition of English slang among 148 Italian undergraduate students. Participants completed a questionnaire on media habits, a Vocabulary S…
The evaluative suffixoid -head and its Spanish and Italian equivalents
This study examines the evaluative morphology of the English suffixoid -head and its equivalents in Spanish and Italian. Adopting a construction morphology approach, the research focuses on the pejorative and human-related connotations in English [x- head ] N constructions, such as crackhead or fathead . A quantitative/qualitative analysis using the itTenTen20 and esTenTen18 (in Sketch Engine ), combined with a contrastive analysis in OPUS parall…
From spearhead to crackhead: Unraveling the morphosemantic development of English -head through a network of constructions
The objective of this study is to examine the morphosemantic features of English - head constructions (as in spearhead and crackhead) through the properties of constructional productivity (CxPr) and inheritance (CxIn), with the particular aim of exploring the transitional nature of the suffixoid - head hum conveying the meaning [+human] (as in crackhead). We argue that, because of the heterogeneity of CxPr, CxIn, and the meaning of nominal bases,…
The Development of ESP Lexicon Through New Combining Forms
This paper investigates the role of new combining forms in the formation of neologisms which are currently expanding the lexicon of English for Special Purposes (ESP). In the past, only neoclassical combining forms, such as initial bio- or final -logy (in biology), were productively used in ESP. Nowadays, specialized combining forms also include abbreviated forms of existing words (e.g., cyber- from cybernetic in cyber-attack), as well as secrete…
Human and machine translation of occasionalisms in literary texts: Johann Nestroy’s Der Talisman and its English translations
Literary occasionalisms, new words coined by writers with a particular poetic aim in view, often pose a great challenge for translators. Given recent advances in machine translation (MT), could literary translators benefit from MT when it comes to the translation of occasionalisms? We address this question by considering the work of Austria’s most important nineteenth-century comedy writer, Johann Nestroy (1801–1862). We compare how human transla…
Slang and verbal aggression: A morphopragmatic analysis of the compound families X-ass , X-brain , X-face , and X-head
While lexical and discourse strategies of hate speech have widely been studied hitherto, there is limited research devoted to the contribution of grammatical and morphological aspects to verbal aggression. This paper provides a corpus-assisted analysis of slang morphological means used in verbal aggression. The focus is on four compound families ( X-ass , X-brain , X-face , X-head ), which are often used in slang to form compound words referring …
Dualism and superposition in the analysis of English synthetic compounds ending in -er
This article studies the role of synthetic-compound families, both formal families and their semantic (or rather conceptual) subfamilies, in the analysis of synthetic compounds (SCs). For this purpose, four formal families of English non-Latinate synthetic compounds sharing their second base and three Latinate families have been investigated. Unlike previous approaches ranging from a purely syntactic treatment of SCs to a more lexical treatment, …
A post-loan word formation pattern: Latinate English synthetic compounds
Asymmetric use of diminutives and hypocoristics to pet animals in Italian, German, English, and Arabic
Designer Babies” and “Playing God”: Metaphor, Genome Editing, and Bioethics in Popular Science Texts
This study is a corpus-based analysis of metaphor in popular science texts about genetic engineering. It explores two sub-corpora of web articles drawn from Nature.com and TheGuardian.com in order to identify the metaphorical associations that authors of popularisation discourse trigger in the audience’s mind and the ethical issues that these associations may raise. The focus is especially on the genetic modification of embryos, which is often de…
A corpus-based analysis of scientific TED Talks: Explaining cancer-related topics to non-experts
A corpus-based analysis of scientific TED Talks: Explaining cancer-related topics to non-experts
Designer Babies” and “Playing God”: Metaphor, Genome Editing, and Bioethics in Popular Science Texts
This study is a corpus-based analysis of metaphor in popular science texts about genetic engineering. It explores two sub-corpora of web articles drawn from Nature.com and TheGuardian.com in order to identify the metaphorical associations that authors of popularisation discourse trigger in the audience’s mind and the ethical issues that these associations may raise. The focus is especially on the genetic modification of embryos, which is often de…
A post-loan word formation pattern: Latinate English synthetic compounds
Asymmetric use of diminutives and hypocoristics to pet animals in Italian, German, English, and Arabic
Dualism and superposition in the analysis of English synthetic compounds ending in -er
This article studies the role of synthetic-compound families, both formal families and their semantic (or rather conceptual) subfamilies, in the analysis of synthetic compounds (SCs). For this purpose, four formal families of English non-Latinate synthetic compounds sharing their second base and three Latinate families have been investigated. Unlike previous approaches ranging from a purely syntactic treatment of SCs to a more lexical treatment, …
The Development of ESP Lexicon Through New Combining Forms
This paper investigates the role of new combining forms in the formation of neologisms which are currently expanding the lexicon of English for Special Purposes (ESP). In the past, only neoclassical combining forms, such as initial bio- or final -logy (in biology), were productively used in ESP. Nowadays, specialized combining forms also include abbreviated forms of existing words (e.g., cyber- from cybernetic in cyber-attack), as well as secrete…
Human and machine translation of occasionalisms in literary texts: Johann Nestroy’s Der Talisman and its English translations
Literary occasionalisms, new words coined by writers with a particular poetic aim in view, often pose a great challenge for translators. Given recent advances in machine translation (MT), could literary translators benefit from MT when it comes to the translation of occasionalisms? We address this question by considering the work of Austria’s most important nineteenth-century comedy writer, Johann Nestroy (1801–1862). We compare how human transla…
Slang and verbal aggression: A morphopragmatic analysis of the compound families X-ass , X-brain , X-face , and X-head
While lexical and discourse strategies of hate speech have widely been studied hitherto, there is limited research devoted to the contribution of grammatical and morphological aspects to verbal aggression. This paper provides a corpus-assisted analysis of slang morphological means used in verbal aggression. The focus is on four compound families ( X-ass , X-brain , X-face , X-head ), which are often used in slang to form compound words referring …
The evaluative suffixoid -head and its Spanish and Italian equivalents
This study examines the evaluative morphology of the English suffixoid -head and its equivalents in Spanish and Italian. Adopting a construction morphology approach, the research focuses on the pejorative and human-related connotations in English [x- head ] N constructions, such as crackhead or fathead . A quantitative/qualitative analysis using the itTenTen20 and esTenTen18 (in Sketch Engine ), combined with a contrastive analysis in OPUS parall…
From spearhead to crackhead: Unraveling the morphosemantic development of English -head through a network of constructions
The objective of this study is to examine the morphosemantic features of English - head constructions (as in spearhead and crackhead) through the properties of constructional productivity (CxPr) and inheritance (CxIn), with the particular aim of exploring the transitional nature of the suffixoid - head hum conveying the meaning [+human] (as in crackhead). We argue that, because of the heterogeneity of CxPr, CxIn, and the meaning of nominal bases,…
Extramural Language Learning: An Investigation of English Slang among Italian University Students
The global spread of English and its role as a lingua franca coincide with its dominance in the media, creating new opportunities for informal exposure. While extramural English learning has been studied in Northern and Central Europe, Italy remains relatively underexplored. This study examines the informal acquisition of English slang among 148 Italian undergraduate students. Participants completed a questionnaire on media habits, a Vocabulary S…
Linguistics (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Natural language processing (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)