Contact:

pierfranca.forchini@unicatt.it

Pierfranca Forchini, PhD

Project Director

The American Movie Corpus

PUBLICATIONS

Morgana, Valentina. (Forthcoming). Beyond Challenges: A Task-Based Approach to Teach Spoken English through Movie Language. Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (RILA) Special Issue "Advances, Trends and Approaches in Language Teaching, Learning and Education in the Post-Pandemic Era: Theory and Practice”, Bulzoni Editore.

Seracini, Francesca. 2024. “Value Metaphors in Films: A Corpus-based Analysis of the Representation of Core Values in American Movies”. L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria 31(3), 69–92.

Forchini, Pierfranca. 2022. The AMC Transcription Conventions. (www.americanmoviecorpus.net).

Forchini, Pierfranca and Francesca Poli. 2022. The AMC-50 DATA Reference. (www.americanmoviecorpus.net)

Forchini, Pierfranca. 2021. “The fourth dude shift: a rags-to-riches tale continued.” In Back to the Future. English from Past to Present, edited by Maria Luisa Maggioni and Amanda Clare Murphy, 247-269. Bern: Peter Lang.


















Forchini, Pierfranca. 2021. “Corpora and movie discourse: Marvel and DC Studios compared.” In The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis, edited by Eric Friginal, and Jack Hardy, 183-201. London: Routledge.

Seracini, Francesca. 2020. “British English and characterization in American movies.” In A Description of American English Phonology with Readings, edited by Pierfranca Forchini, 151-166. Milano: EDUCatt.

Forchini, Pierfranca. 2019. “Dimensions 'Assembled': The Nature of Movie Conversation.” In Worlds of words: complexity, creativity, and conventionality in English language, literature and culture. Volume I: Language, edited by Veronica Bonsignori, Gloria Cappelli, and Elisa Mattiello, 145-157. Pisa: Pisa University Press.

Forchini, Pierfranca. 2018. “The applicability of movies in legal language teaching: Evidence from Multi-Dimensional Analysis.” International Journal of Linguistics 10(6): 245-262.

Forchini, Pierfranca. 2017. “A multi-dimensional analysis of legal American English: Real-life and cinematic representations compared.” International Journal of Language Studies 11(3), 133-150.

Forchini, Pierfranca. 2013a. “The teaching applicability of movies and the strength of Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA).” In Perspectives on Spoken Discourse, edited by Amanda Murphy and Margherita Ulrych, 81-110. Milano: EduCatt.

Forchini, Pierfranca. 2013b. “Using movie corpora to explore spoken American English. Evidence from Multi-Dimensional Analysis.” In Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from Corpus Linguistics, edited by Julia Bamford, Silvia Cavalieri, and Giuliana Diani, 123-136. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Forchini, Pierfranca. 2013c. “A diachronic study of familiarizers ('man', 'guys', 'buddy', 'dude') in movie language.” Perspectives. 21(4): 504-525.

Forchini, Pierfranca.2012. Movie language revisited: Evidence from multi-dimensional analysis and corpora. Bern: Peter Lang.


                         

     

                                                                                                                   







Forchini, Pierfranca. 2011. “Movie conversation: a reflection of face-to-face conversation and a source for teaching spoken language.” In Papers from the 24th AIA Conference. Challenges for the 21st Century: Dilemmas, Ambiguities, Directions. Vol. 2. Language Studies, edited by Gabriella Di Martino, Linda Lombardo, and Silvia Nuccorini, 199-206. Roma: Edizioni Q.

Forchini, Pierfranca. 2010. ““Well, uh no. I mean, you know”. Discourse Markers in Movie Conversation.” In Perspectives on Audiovisual Translation, edited by Lukasz Bogucki and Krzysztof Kredens. 45-59. Bern: Peter Lang.

Forchini, Pierfranca. 2009. "The get-unit in corpora of spontaneous and non-spontaneous mediated language: from syntactic versatility to semantic and pragmatic similarity." In ECOLINGUA: The role of e-Corpora in Translation, Language Learning and Testing, edited by Christopher Taylor, 185-209. Trieste: EUT.


Forchini, Pierfranca (Ed.). 2021. The American Movie Corpus: A Tool for the Development of Spoken Lexico-Grammatical Competence. Milano: EDUCatt.

Forchini, Pierfranca. 2021. "The American Movie Corpus." In The American Movie Corpus: A Tool for the Development of Spoken Lexico-Grammatical Competence, edited by Pierfranca Forchini, 9-53. Milano: EDUCatt.

Forchini, Pierfranca and Francesca Seracini. 2021. "British English in American movies: the smart, the bad and the exotic." In The American Movie Corpus: A Tool for the Development of Spoken Lexico-Grammatical Competence, edited by Pierfranca Forchini, 159-172. Milano: EDUCatt.

Poli Francesca.  2021. "Collocations in crime movies and an introduction to RStudio." In The American Movie Corpus: A Tool for the Development of Spoken Lexico-Grammatical Competence, edited by Pierfranca Forchini, 85-112. Milano: EDUCatt.

Poli Francesca.   2021. "The influence of movie conversation on Italian learners' collocations." In The American Movie Corpus: A Tool for the Development of Spoken Lexico-Grammatical Competence, edited by Pierfranca Forchini, 113-133. Milano: EDUCatt.

Seracini, Francesca.   2021. "The language of leadership in American movies: a corpus-driven analysis with the AntConc concordancer." In The American Movie Corpus: A Tool for the Development of Spoken Lexico-Grammatical Competence, edited by Pierfranca Forchini, 57-83. Milano: EDUCatt.

Seracini, Francesca.   2021. "Modality and argumentation in movie courtroom examinations." In The American Movie Corpus: A Tool for the Development of Spoken Lexico-Grammatical Competence, edited by Pierfranca Forchini, 135-157. Milano: EDUCatt.