Arts Research Programme: Contrastive linguistics
- Employer
- Global Academy Jobs
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Closing date
- Feb 11, 2019
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- Sector
- Art and Humanities
- Hours
- Full Time
- Organization Type
- University and College
- Jobseeker Type
- Academic (e.g. 'Lecturer')
Job Details
A PhD project with Dr Jacqueline Visconti will focus on a comparative account of similar items or constructions in two or more European languages.
To find out more about studying for a PhD at the University of Birmingham, including full details of the research undertaken in the School, the funding opportunities available for your subject, and guidance on making your application, you can order a copy of our Doctoral Research Prospectus, at: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/drp
Monographs and editorships
1. I connettivi condizionali complessi in italiano e inglese. Uno studio contrastivo, Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria, 2000.
2. (ed.) Speech Acts in Legal Language, Special Issue of the Journal of Pragmatics, 41/3, 2009.
3. (ed. with Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen) Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics, Studies in Pragmatics, Oxford, Emerald, 2009.
4. (ed.) Lingua e diritto, Milano: LED, 2010.
5. (with S. Ferreri et al.) Document quality control in public administrations and international organizations, Luxembourg, Publication Office of the European Union, 2013.
6. (ed. with Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen), The Diachrony of Negation, Amsterdam Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 2014.
Selected articles
7. “On the Origins of Scalar Particles in Italian”, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 6: II, 2005, 237-261.
8. “The role of lexical semantics in semantic change”, Acta Linguistica Hafniensa 38, 2006, 207-234.
9. “From ‘textual' to ‘interpersonal': on the diachrony of the Italian particle mica”, Journal of Pragmatics, 41/5, 2009, 937-950.
10. “On legal translation: connectives from a comparative perspective", Revista General de Derecho Público Comparado. vol. 6, 2010, 13-31.
11. (with M-B Mosegaard Hansen), The evolution of negation in French and Italian: Similarities and differences . Folia linguistica, 2012, pp. 118-140, 2012.
12. European integration: connectives in EU legislation, International Journal of Applied linguistics, vol. 23/1, 2013, pp. 44-59.
13. Facets of Subjectification, Language Sciences, vol. 36/1, 2013, pp. 7-17.
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