Search Results - "Elisa Mattiello"

“Designer Babies” and “Playing God”: Metaphor, Genome Editing, and Bioethics in Popular Science Texts by Mattiello, Elisa

“…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…”
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A corpus-based analysis of new English blends by Elisa, Mattiello

“…This study investigates lexical blending from a synchronic perspective, with special focus on new blends in English. It analyses a sample of 245 English blends…”
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Dualism and superposition in the analysis of English synthetic compounds ending in -er by Mattiello, Elisa, Dressler, Wolfgang U.

“…This article studies the role of synthetic-compound families, both formal families and their semantic (or rather conceptual) subfamilies, in the analysis of…”
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When Mistake Rolls up Its Sleeves and Becomes Slang by Mattiello, Elisa

“…This study explores the semantic area of ‘mistake’ in contemporary English, with a special focus on slang in general English dictionaries (e.g. OED) and…”
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Asymmetric use of diminutives and hypocoristics to pet animals in Italian, German, English, and Arabic by Mattiello, Elisa, Ritt-Benmimoun, Veronika, Dressler, Wolfgang U.

“…This paper investigates diminutives and hypocoristics used in asymmetric verbal communication with pet animals in three European languages and a Semitic…”
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The Morphosemantic Transparency/Opacity of Novel English Analogical Compounds and Compound Families by Mattiello, Elisa, Dressler, Wolfgang U

“…This study deals with novel English analogical compounds, i.e. compounds obtained via either a unique model (e.g. beefcake after cheesecake ) or a schema…”
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Communication with diminutives to young children vs. pets in German, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, and English by Wolfgang U. Dressler, Elisa Mattiello, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Sabrina Noccetti, Ineta Dabašinskiene, Laura Kamandulyte-Merfeldiene, Victoria V. Kazakovskaya

“…This contribution is dedicated to Steven Gillis with whom we have collaborated since the nineties within the “Crosslinguistic Project on Pre- and…”
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From ‘Covid-free’ to ‘Coronapocalypse’ by Elisa Mattiello

“…This study explores a dataset of Covid-related terms drawn from the Coronavirus Corpus (2020) in order to examine the impact of the crisis on language…”
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A corpus-based analysis of scientific TED Talks: Explaining cancer-related topics to non-experts by Mattiello, Elisa

“…•The language that TEDsters use is effective but also accessible to non-experts.•The techniques used range from periphrasis to simile, metaphor, and…”
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A post-loan word formation pattern: Latinate English synthetic compounds by Mattiello, Elisa, Dressler, Wolfgang U.

“…•Differences between Latinate and non-Latinate synthetic compounds.•Latinate synthetic compounds did not develop semantic subfamilies.•Post-loan word formation…”
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Blending in English by Balteiro, Isabel, Bat‑El, Outi, Bauer, Laurie, Beliaeva, Natalia, Cohen, Evan Gary, Danilović Jeremić, Jelena, Elisa, Mattiello, Gries, Stefan Th, Josijević, Jelena, Jurado, Alejandro Barrena, Kjellander, Daniel, Renner, Vincent, Renwick, Adam, Schoenfeld, Aviv, Tomić, Gorica, Wulff, Stefanie

“…The e-journal Lexis published its 14th issue, devoted to “Blending in English”, in December 2019. La revue électronique Lexis - revue de lexicologie anglaise a…”
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