Carla Vergaro
Biographic Data
| ID | 659235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carla Vergaro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carla |
| FAMILY NAME | Vergaro |
| SIGNATURE | VERGARO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Perugia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0621-4451 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Regular selves constructed through genres
This study aims to provide a socio-cognitive approach to understand how the identity associated with a social category is constructed through regular positioning acts in conventionalized genres. Using genre-based positioning analysis, we analyzed a corpus of 30 Italian rectors’ inaugural speeches and identified six rhetorical moves regularly used in the genre, which revealed three underlying positionings – representative of the university, value …
Linguistic and pragmatic ways of committing oneself
In this study I focus on the complementation patterns of commissive shell nouns in Ghanaian English (GhE). Commissive shell nouns are a type of illocutionary shell noun, i.e. a noun that encapsulates a content that is usually expressed in a complement or even separate clause or sentence thereby ascribing it an illocutionary force. I use the usage-based approach to the study of language and investigate the behavioral profile of these nouns in GhE.…
Syntagmatic conformity
Despite all the attention Puritan sermons have received, no attention has been specifically devoted to the analysis of the two speech acts of blessing and cursing in these sermons from a cognitive-pragmatic point of view. This study aims at doing this, focussing on Winthrop’s A Modell of Christian Charity as a case study. I use the framework provided by the Entrenchment and Conventionalization Model – a usage-based and emergentist model of langua…
The Contribution of Metadiscourse to the Illocutionary Logic of Winthrop’s A Modell of Christian Charitiy
This paper focuses on the analysis of metadiscourse in Winthrop’s 1630 sermon A Modell of Christian Charity, considered a kind of “Ur-text of American literature”.11 Delbanco, The Puritan Ordeal, 72. A lot has been written on it from the socio-historical and cultural point of view, much less instead from the linguistic point of view. In this study I analyze the manifestation of metadiscourse in the Modell, i.e. all those elements in a text which …
A cognitive framework for understanding genre
The purpose of this paper is to apply the Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model (EC-Model hereafter; see Schmid 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 ; Schmid & Mantlik 2015 ) of language knowledge to genre, with the aim of showing how a unified theory of the relation between usage and linguistic knowledge and convention can shed light on the way genre knowledge becomes entrenched in the individual and shared conventional behavior in communities.…
Do the meanings of abstract nouns correlate with the meanings of their complementation patterns
There is a widespread assumption in Construction Grammar (but also before and elsewhere) that the meanings of verbs correlate with or even determine their complementation forms and patterns. There is much less research on noun complementation, however, although this category is even more interesting for a number of reasons such as the potential for valency reduction, nominal topicalization constructions, and additional complementation options, e.…
‘Notice the Similarities between the Two Sets …’
The sparse literature on the use of imperatives in research papers suggests that they are relatively common in a small number of disciplines, but rare, if used at all, in others. The present study addresses the use of imperatives in a corpus of upper-level A-graded student papers from 16 disciplines. A total of 822 papers collected within the past 5 years were analyzed for imperative use, with particular emphasis placed on the main text of papers…
Ways of asserting. English assertive nouns between linguistics and the philosophy of language
Uguale ma diverso. Il mito dell’equivalenza nella traduzione
Etnopragmatica. La Forza nel Parlare
Concessive constructions in English business letter discourse
This paper presents an analysis of the pragmatic use of concessive constructions in business letter discourse. In linguistics, concession has been analyzed primarily within concessive clauses, which have been widely studied, either alone or compared with other syntactic categories such as adversative, causal, or conditional clauses. The term ‘concessive’ itself belongs to the terminology developed within traditional grammar to classify adverbials…
On the pragmatics of concessive constructions in Italian and English business letter discourse
This paper presents an analysis of the pragmatic use of concessive constructions in business letter discourse. In linguistics concession has been analyzed primarily within concessive clauses which have been widely studied, either alone or compared with other syntactic categories such as adversative, causal or conditional clauses. The term ‘concessive’ itself belongs to the terminology developed within traditional grammar to classify adverbials an…
Linguistic Identities through Translation
Dear Sirs, I hope you will find this information useful
This article describes a contrastive study of rhetorical differences between Italian and English ‘For Your Information’ (FYI) letters. It is assumed that cultural differences affect discourse genres traditionally considered as standardized, ritual or even formulaic, written business communication being a case in point. It was our goal to investigate how information is presented in business correspondence and what rhetorical strategies are used to…
Dear Sirs, what would you do if you were in our position?”. Discourse strategies in Italian and English money chasing letters
Dear Sirs, what would you do if you were in our position?”. Discourse strategies in Italian and English money chasing letters
Dear Sirs, I hope you will find this information useful
This article describes a contrastive study of rhetorical differences between Italian and English ‘For Your Information’ (FYI) letters. It is assumed that cultural differences affect discourse genres traditionally considered as standardized, ritual or even formulaic, written business communication being a case in point. It was our goal to investigate how information is presented in business correspondence and what rhetorical strategies are used to…
Etnopragmatica. La Forza nel Parlare
Regular selves constructed through genres
This study aims to provide a socio-cognitive approach to understand how the identity associated with a social category is constructed through regular positioning acts in conventionalized genres. Using genre-based positioning analysis, we analyzed a corpus of 30 Italian rectors’ inaugural speeches and identified six rhetorical moves regularly used in the genre, which revealed three underlying positionings – representative of the university, value …
On the pragmatics of concessive constructions in Italian and English business letter discourse
This paper presents an analysis of the pragmatic use of concessive constructions in business letter discourse. In linguistics concession has been analyzed primarily within concessive clauses which have been widely studied, either alone or compared with other syntactic categories such as adversative, causal or conditional clauses. The term ‘concessive’ itself belongs to the terminology developed within traditional grammar to classify adverbials an…
Linguistic Identities through Translation
Dear Sirs, what would you do if you were in our position?”. Discourse strategies in Italian and English money chasing letters
Dear Sirs, I hope you will find this information useful
This article describes a contrastive study of rhetorical differences between Italian and English ‘For Your Information’ (FYI) letters. It is assumed that cultural differences affect discourse genres traditionally considered as standardized, ritual or even formulaic, written business communication being a case in point. It was our goal to investigate how information is presented in business correspondence and what rhetorical strategies are used to…
Linguistic Identities through Translation
Concessive constructions in English business letter discourse
This paper presents an analysis of the pragmatic use of concessive constructions in business letter discourse. In linguistics, concession has been analyzed primarily within concessive clauses, which have been widely studied, either alone or compared with other syntactic categories such as adversative, causal, or conditional clauses. The term ‘concessive’ itself belongs to the terminology developed within traditional grammar to classify adverbials…
On the pragmatics of concessive constructions in Italian and English business letter discourse
This paper presents an analysis of the pragmatic use of concessive constructions in business letter discourse. In linguistics concession has been analyzed primarily within concessive clauses which have been widely studied, either alone or compared with other syntactic categories such as adversative, causal or conditional clauses. The term ‘concessive’ itself belongs to the terminology developed within traditional grammar to classify adverbials an…
Etnopragmatica. La Forza nel Parlare
Uguale ma diverso. Il mito dell’equivalenza nella traduzione
Ways of asserting. English assertive nouns between linguistics and the philosophy of language
‘Notice the Similarities between the Two Sets …’
The sparse literature on the use of imperatives in research papers suggests that they are relatively common in a small number of disciplines, but rare, if used at all, in others. The present study addresses the use of imperatives in a corpus of upper-level A-graded student papers from 16 disciplines. A total of 822 papers collected within the past 5 years were analyzed for imperative use, with particular emphasis placed on the main text of papers…
Do the meanings of abstract nouns correlate with the meanings of their complementation patterns
There is a widespread assumption in Construction Grammar (but also before and elsewhere) that the meanings of verbs correlate with or even determine their complementation forms and patterns. There is much less research on noun complementation, however, although this category is even more interesting for a number of reasons such as the potential for valency reduction, nominal topicalization constructions, and additional complementation options, e.…
A cognitive framework for understanding genre
The purpose of this paper is to apply the Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model (EC-Model hereafter; see Schmid 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 ; Schmid & Mantlik 2015 ) of language knowledge to genre, with the aim of showing how a unified theory of the relation between usage and linguistic knowledge and convention can shed light on the way genre knowledge becomes entrenched in the individual and shared conventional behavior in communities.…
The Contribution of Metadiscourse to the Illocutionary Logic of Winthrop’s A Modell of Christian Charitiy
This paper focuses on the analysis of metadiscourse in Winthrop’s 1630 sermon A Modell of Christian Charity, considered a kind of “Ur-text of American literature”.11 Delbanco, The Puritan Ordeal, 72. A lot has been written on it from the socio-historical and cultural point of view, much less instead from the linguistic point of view. In this study I analyze the manifestation of metadiscourse in the Modell, i.e. all those elements in a text which …
Syntagmatic conformity
Despite all the attention Puritan sermons have received, no attention has been specifically devoted to the analysis of the two speech acts of blessing and cursing in these sermons from a cognitive-pragmatic point of view. This study aims at doing this, focussing on Winthrop’s A Modell of Christian Charity as a case study. I use the framework provided by the Entrenchment and Conventionalization Model – a usage-based and emergentist model of langua…
Linguistic and pragmatic ways of committing oneself
In this study I focus on the complementation patterns of commissive shell nouns in Ghanaian English (GhE). Commissive shell nouns are a type of illocutionary shell noun, i.e. a noun that encapsulates a content that is usually expressed in a complement or even separate clause or sentence thereby ascribing it an illocutionary force. I use the usage-based approach to the study of language and investigate the behavioral profile of these nouns in GhE.…
Regular selves constructed through genres
This study aims to provide a socio-cognitive approach to understand how the identity associated with a social category is constructed through regular positioning acts in conventionalized genres. Using genre-based positioning analysis, we analyzed a corpus of 30 Italian rectors’ inaugural speeches and identified six rhetorical moves regularly used in the genre, which revealed three underlying positionings – representative of the university, value …
Linguistics (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · Rhetorical question (4 works)