Papers by Laura Pinnavaia
International journal of English linguistics, Dec 20, 2023
they never get sufficient time to relax thus feeling depression, anxiety, stress, burnout and fat... more they never get sufficient time to relax thus feeling depression, anxiety, stress, burnout and fatigue all mixed into one; the term pandemic fatigue was introduced by the World Health Organization (WHO) to indicate a widespread sense of distress affecting the entire population as a consequence of the prolonged state of crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, whose end could not be foreseen; zoom gloom refers to the mental and physical exhaustion after working many hours on the Zoom platform; and maskne is a blend (mask+acne) indicating a number of skin conditions that can stem from wearing a mask.
8 Teaching English Writing in the Twentieth Century Seen through Handbooks for Mother-tongue and Foreign Speakers
Amsterdam University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Teaching English Writing in the Twentieth Century Seen through Handbooks for Mother-tongue and Foreign Speakers
Amsterdam University Press eBooks, Nov 18, 2022
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Esempi di seconda mano
Literary quotations in Charles Richardson’s A New Dictionary Of The English Language (1836-7): a sophisticated lexicographical method
Esempi di seconda mano
The \u201ccoming out\u201d of Polari: 1960s gayspeak
Food and drink idioms in Johnson\u2019s Dictionary of the English Language
Questo volume, che si avvale della partecipazione di un gruppo di docenti del Dipartimento di Lin... more Questo volume, che si avvale della partecipazione di un gruppo di docenti del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere dell'Università degli Studi di Milano, apre una prospettiva plurilingue e comparatista sulla citazione come luogo d'incontro tra almeno due voci. La suddivisione nelle diverse parti rende conto dell'internazionalità sottesa all'esigenza del citare che può essere interpretata all'interno della stessa lingua o da una lingua all'altra con diversi risultati. Il merito di questo tipo di ricerche è l'accostamento inedito di opere e contesti che difficilmente entrerebbero in risonanza. La raccolta sincronica di saggi monografici, oltre a offrire preziose messe a fuoco nelle singole aree di studio, propone di fatto collegamenti interdisciplinari promettenti e indispensabili per futuri spunti di riflessione.
Familiar phrases in Eighteenth-century learners’ grammars of English for Italians
Italianisms in US English
Italy and the USA, 2019
Teaching Italian (and English) through proverbs in conversation: a case study of Pietro Paravicino's "Choice Proverbs and Dialogues in Italian and English" (1660)
Many of the idioms used in English stem from the Bible. There they were originally coined and use... more Many of the idioms used in English stem from the Bible. There they were originally coined and used to announce God’s word, to facilitate the understanding of it, and to capture the ineffable and unsaid. Nowadays with newly derived and synchronic meanings, they can be employed in a similar fashion in contexts that are not just religious. It is the simultaneous existence of the two metaphoric readings – the historic and the synchronic – that makes Bible idioms particularly rich and fascinating linguistic tools worthy of study. This article analyses a series of twenty-five Bible idioms in contemporary English, as represented by the British National Corpus. While the examination provides data as to the frequency and distribution of the idioms in different texts, particular attention is placed upon their communicative functions in discourse in order to try and individuate three pragmatic types of Bible idiom. 1. Bible idioms in English Surely no other written work pulses with as much fig...
Tracing Political Correctness in Bilingual English-Italian Dictionaries
Complementing and Contradictory Meanings in the Discourse of Environment: The Case of global warming and climate change
The environment has been one of the most urgent matters of public concern in the last few decades... more The environment has been one of the most urgent matters of public concern in the last few decades; however, there is still a great deal of uncertainty and misunderstanding about what environmental problems are, what effect they will have on the Earth, and how they should be dealt with. One discrepancy necessitating closer study concerns the terms climate change and global warming: while scientifically speaking they are two distinct concepts, in general speech they often seem interchangeable, which creates a certain confusion around the topic. This contribution examines the frequency and collocates of the terms climate change and global warming in the Corpus of Contemporary American English, by means of the methodologies of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. The objective is to shed light on the use of the phrases in expert and non-expert American English discourse and the extent of their interchangeability. The results seem to suggest that there is indeed a difference in the way the terms are used in expert and nonexpert discourses, and that these differences have consequences, both on the way we cognitively frame the environmental issue, and how we respond to it emotional
Nella storia umana il cibo non è semplicemente mezzo di sostentamento: il cibo è socializzazione ... more Nella storia umana il cibo non è semplicemente mezzo di sostentamento: il cibo è socializzazione e ospitalità. Fin dai tempi più antichi, il mangiare e il bere insieme diventano il modo per riunire famiglie e clan, mentre il rifiuto di consumare pasti in comune diventa segno di contrarietà e simbolo di fratellanza spezzata. Inoltre il consumo di cibo caratterizza i riti di passaggio: in tutte le culture tradizionali il mangiare e il bere sono sempre presenti nei momenti importanti della vita, come le nascite, le cerimonie d’iniziazione, i matrimoni e persino la morte. Il cibo rappresenta una delle espressioni concrete più diffuse delle relazioni sociali nella società umana. Essendo così importante nella vita dell’uomo, il primo passo verso quella che potremmo definire ‘cultura gastronomica’ viene fatto dall’uomo primitivo che, scoprendo il fuoco, dà luogo ai primi pranzi consumati tra famiglie attorno al falò. Per le antiche civiltà dell’Assiria, della Babilonia, della Persia e dell...
English travelers on the Grand Tour undoubtedly hoped to visit as many European countries as poss... more English travelers on the Grand Tour undoubtedly hoped to visit as many European countries as possible, but if they could not see them all, they would certainly not leave out either France or Italy. Italy was one of the privileged destinations for the Grand Tour and the expression itself became a synonym of “Italienische Reise” well before Goethe used it in 1813 (Brilli 1998: 101). The reasons why the English upper and middle classes undertook such journeys may be manifold, but one seems to prevail: the Grand Tour was considered a very important educational experience, especially for the younger members of ranking society. Young people could acquire the skills of observation and analysis on such travels, building up the intrepidity and initiative essential for a successful future career. It was the best way for them to learn foreign languages, as well as to acquaint themselves with the customs, laws, economic interests, and governmental ways of other countries, enabling them to gain ...
Italian food and drink borrowings in American English usage
Idiomatic Expressions in Vocabulary Teaching
Learner’s dictionaries across time: trying to motivate the different treatment of bad langauge words
“Lessico: il ruolo della Fraseologia”
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