Prof. Marina DOSSENA

Prof. Marina DOSSENA Main publications 1. Monographs 2005, Scotticisms in Grammar and Vocabulary, Edinburgh: John Donald (Birlinn). 2000, Scotticisms Today and Yesterday, Modena, Il Fiorino. 1.1. Co-edited or co-authored books 2012, Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe. Dossena, Marina / Del Lungo Camiciotti, Gabriella (eds). Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2009a, Studies in English and European Historical Dialectology. Dossena, Marina / Lass, Roger (eds). Bern: Peter Lang. 2009b, Forms of Migration. Migration of Forms. Proceedings of the 23 rd AIA Conference. Dossena, Marina / Torretta, Domenico / Sportelli, Annamaria (eds). Bari: Progedit. 2008a, Gotti, Maurizio / Dossena, Marina / Dury Richard (eds), English Historical Linguistics 2006. Volume I: Historical Syntax and Morphology. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2008b, Dury, Richard / Gotti, Maurizio / Dossena, Marina (eds), English Historical Linguistics 2006. Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2008c, Dossena, Marina / Dury, Richard / Gotti, Maurizio (eds), English Historical Linguistics 2006. Volume III: Geo-historical Variation in English. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2008d, Studies in Late Modern English Correspondence: Methodology and Data. Dossena, Marina / Tieken-Boon van Ostade (eds). Bern: Peter Lang. 2007, (R)evolutions in Evaluation. Special issue of Textus 20/1. Dossena, Marina / Jucker, Andreas H. (eds). Genoa: Tilgher. 2006a, Business and Official Correspondence: Historical Investigations. Dossena, Marina / Fitzmaurice, Susan M. (eds). Bern: Peter Lang. 2006b, Variation in Business and Economics Discourse: Diachronic and Genre Perspectives. Del Lungo, Gabriella / Dossena, Marina / Crawford Camiciottoli, Belinda (eds), Rome: Officina. 2006c, Diachronic Perspectives on Domain-Specific English. Dossena, Marina / Taavitsainen, Irma (eds). Bern: Peter Lang. 2004, Methods and Data in English Historical Dialectology. Dossena, Marina / Lass, Roger (eds). Bern: Peter Lang. 2003, Insights into Late Modern English. Dossena, Marina / Jones, Charles (eds). Bern: Peter Lang. 2002a, Conflict and Negotiation in Specialized Texts. Gotti, Maurizio / Heller, Dorothee / Dossena, Marina (eds). Bern: Peter Lang. 2002b, Variation in Central Modals: A Repertoire of Forms and Types of Usage in Middle English and Early Modern English. Gotti, Maurizio / Dossena, Marina / Dury, Richard / Facchinetti, Roberta / Lima, Maria. Bern: Peter Lang. 2001, Modality in Specialized Texts. Gotti, Maurizio / Dossena, Marina (eds). Bern: Peter Lang. 1.2. Editorial work 2010-present, The European English Messenger, ISSN: 0960-4545. 2. Articles (all published in peer-reviewed books or journals) Forthcoming a, Ego documents in Scottish corpora: the contribution of nineteenth-century letters and diaries to the study of language history. In Anderson, Wendy (ed.) Language in Scotland: Corpus-based Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 1

Forthcoming b, Late Modern English Semantics and Lexicon. In Brinton, Laurel / Bergs, Alexander (eds), HSK Historical Linguistics of English. Berlin: De Gruyter. Forthcoming c, A highly poetical language? Scots, Burns, Patriotism and Evaluative Language in Nineteenth-century Literary Reviews and Articles. In Percy, Carol (ed) The Languages of Nation: Attitudes and Norms. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. Forthcoming d, John is a good Indian : Reflections on Native American culture in Scottish popular writing of the 19 th century. In Sassi, Carla and Heijnsbergen, Theo van (eds) Within and Without Empire: Scotland Across the (Post)colonial Borderline. Newcastle u. T.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2012a, Scottishness and the Book Trade. Print and Scotticisms. In Brown, Stephen W. / McDougall, Warren (eds), The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Vol. 2: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 545-550. 2012b, The study of correspondence: theoretical and methodological issues. In Dossena, Marina / Del Lungo Camiciotti, Gabriella (eds). Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 13-30. 2012c, I write you these few lines : Metacommunication and Pragmatics in 19 th -century Scottish Emigrants Letters. In Busse, Ulrich / Hübler, Axel (eds). Investigations into the Meta- Communicative Lexicon of English. A Contribution to Historical Pragmatics. Amsterdam. Benjamins, 45-64. 2011a, Handwritten Communication in Nineteenth-century Business Correspondence. In Jucker, Andreas H. / Pahta, Päivi (eds). Communicating Early English Manuscripts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 133-146. 2011b, Power to the Singers: Scots, English, Politics and Policies. The Bottle Imp, Issue 9, May 2011. ISSN 1754-1514, http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/scotlit/asls/swe/tbi/tbiissue9/dossena.html. 2011c, The man s the gowd : Robert Burns songs and poetry from rebellion to tradition (and back again?). In Irimia, Mihaela / Ivana, Dragoş (eds) Author(ity) and the Canon between Institutionalization and Questioning: Literature from High to Late Modernity. Bucharest: Romanian Cultural Institute Press, 188-203. 2011d, Colliers, Farmers, Strikers. The Discussion of Work-related Themes in Late Modern Scottish Letters and Diaries. Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (LFE) 17, Autumn 2011. Special Issue: Diachronic English for Specific Purposes. Guest editors: Francisco Alonso-Almeida and M. Sandra Marrero-Morales, 319-340. ISSN: 1133-1127. 2010a, Reading with Murder: Stevenson s Kidnapped and the Popularization of Scottish History. In Locatelli, Angela (ed.), The Knowledge of Literature 9. Literature and History. Bergamo: Bergamo University Press, 57-76. 2010b, Be pleased to report expressly : The Development of Public Style English in 19 th -century Business and Official Correspondence. In Hickey, Raymond (ed.), Eighteenth-Century English. Ideology and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 293-308. 2010c, Building Trust through (Self-)Appraisal in 19 th -century Business Correspondence. In Pahta, Päivi / Nevala, Minna / Nurmi, Arja / Palander-Collin, Minna (eds) Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 191-209. 2010d, We beg to suggest : Features of Legal English in Late Modern Business Letters. In Brownlees, Nicholas / Del Lungo, Gabriella / Denton, John (eds). The Language of Public and Private Communication in a Historical Perspective. Newcastle u. Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 46-64. 2010e, A steedy hand, a geasend throat, a dry heart and an empty pip : Scots and vernacular features in William Cameron s letters. In Millar, Robert McColl (ed.) 2010. Northern Lights, Northern Words. Selected Papers from the FRLSU Conference, Kirkwall 2009. Aberdeen: Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ireland, 122-142. 2010f, Lo Scots fra letteratura, identità e cultura: tratti linguistici e valenze storiche. In Fazzini, Marco / Sassi, Carla, a cura di, Letteratura Scozzese, Quaderni del Premio Letterario Giuseppe Acerbi. Castel Goffredo (MN): Associazione Giuseppe Acerbi, 43-45. 2010g, Dialect and Vernacular Features in Late Modern English Correspondence: Beginnings of a Quest. Brno Studies in English 36/1, 5-27. ISSN 0524-6881, www.phil.muni.cz/wff/home/publikace/ journals/brno-studies-in-english/view?set_language=en) 2

2009, Language Attitudes and Choice in the Scottish Reformation. In Gribben, Crawford / Mullan, David George (eds), Literature and the Scottish Reformation. Farnham: Ashgate, 45-62. 2008a, 19CSC, Second-generation Corpora and the History of English (co-author: Richard Dury). In Martelli, Aurelia / Pulcini, Virginia (eds), Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat. Monza: Polimetrica, 401-412. 2008b, Prescriptivism a Century Ago: Business Correspondence Taught to Emigrants A Case Study. In Beal, Joan / Nocera, Carmela / Sturiale, Massimo (eds), Perspectives on Prescriptivism. Bern: Peter Lang, 41-58. 2008c, Scots Words of Celebration: handsels frae DOST an mair. In Douthwaite, John / Pezzini, Domenico (eds), Words in Action: Diachronic and Synchronic Approaches to English Discourse. Studies in Honour of Ermanno Barisone. Genova: EGIC, 203-211. 2008d, La linguistica storica (co-author: Richard Dury), Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata 37/1 numero monografico su Linguistica Inglese: studi recenti e prospettive di ricerca, a cura di Giovanni Iamartino, 221-236. 2008e, We beg leave to refer to your decision : Pragmatic Traits of Nineteenth-century Business Correspondence. In Dossena, Marina / Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (eds). Studies in Late Modern English Correspondence: Methodology and Data. Bern: Peter Lang, 235-255. 2008f, God knows I am no Saint : Short Notes on Two Psalms Paraphrased by Robert Burns. In Iamartino, Giovanni / Facchinetti, Roberta / Maggioni, M. Luisa (eds), Studi di storia della lingua inglese offerti a Domenico Pezzini. Monza: Polimetrica, 99-113. 2008g, When antiquarians looked at the thistle - Late Modern Views of Scotland s Linguistic Heritage. The Bottle Imp 4 (Nov. 2008), 1-3. ISSN 1754-1514. <www.thebottleimp.org.uk>. 2008h, The times they re a-changing : The Abolition of Feudal Tenure (Scotland) Act 2000 and Linguistic Strategies of Popularization. In Bhatia, Vijay / Candlin, Christopher / Evangelisti Allori, Paola (eds), Language, Culture and the Law. The Formulation of Legal Concepts across Systems and Cultures. Bern: Peter Lang, 187-206. 2008i, Imitatio literae. Scottish emigrants letters and long-distance interaction in partly-schooled writing of the 19 th century. In Kermas, Susan / Gotti, Maurizio (eds). Socially-conditioned Language Change: Diachronic and Synchronic Insights. Lecce: Edizioni del Grifo, 79-96. 2008l, Many strange and peculiar affairs : Description, Narration and Evaluation in Scottish Emigrants Letters of the 19 th Century. Scottish Language, 27, 1-18 (ISSN 0264-0198). 2007a, Scots in Institutional Discourse: Walcome til the Scottish Pairlament Wabsite. In Fairclough, Norman / Cortese, Giuseppina / Ardizzone, Patrizia (eds), Discourse and Contemporary Social Change. Bern: Peter Lang, 213-231. 2007b, As this leaves me at present Formulaic Usage, Politeness and Social Proximity in Nineteenthcentury Scottish Emigrants Letters. In Elspaß, Stephan / Langer, Nils / Scharloth, Joachim / Vandenbussche, Wim (eds), Germanic Language Histories from Below (1700-2000). Berlin: De Gruyter, 13-29. 2006a, Stance and Authority in Nineteenth-century Bank Correspondence A Case Study. In Dossena, Marina / Fitzmaurice, Susan (eds), Business and Official Correspondence: Historical Investigations, Bern: Peter Lang, 175-192. 2006b, Forms of Argumentation and Verbal Aggression in the Darien Pamphlets. In Brownlees, Nicholas (ed.), News Discourse in Early Modern Britain, Bern: Peter Lang, 235-254. 2006c, 19CSC, ICAMET and the Diachronic Study of Specialized Discourse in Correspondence. In Mair, Christian / Heuberger, Reinhard (eds), Corpora and the History of English. Heidelberg: Winter, 65-77. 2006d, Forms of Self-representation in 19 th -century Business Letters. In Dossena, Marina / Taavitsainen, Irma (eds), Diachronic Perspectives on Domain-Specific English. Bern: Peter Lang, 173-190. 2006e, Doing Business in Nineteenth-century Scotland: Expressing Authority, Conveying Stance. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. Special issue on Insights from Corpus Linguistics for Professional Communication; Guest editor: Thomas Orr, Univ. of Aizu (Japan); 49/3 (Sept. 2006), 246-253. 2006f, Language policy in Scotland today: the (strange?) case of Scots, (co-author: J. Derrick McClure). In Dell Aquila, Vittorio / Iannàccaro, Gabriele / Stuflesser, Matthias (eds), Alpes Europa, Soziolinguisti-ca y language planning. Trento: Regione Auton. Trentino Alto Adige etc, 125-146. 3

2006g, The Cinic Scotomastic?: Johnson, his Commentators, Scots, French, and the Story of English. Textus 19/1, Special issue on Samuel Johnson s Dictionary and the Eighteenth-century World of Words, a cura di Giovanni Iamartino e Robert DeMaria, 51-68. 2006h, All that Glitters: Information and Persuasion in Political Websites. In Vasta, Nicoletta (ed.) Forms of Promotion: Texts, Contexts and Cultures. Bologna: Pàtron, 125-141. 2005, Apud acta: The Contribution of Latin to Scots Legal Vocabulary, ESP Across Cultures 2, 47-57. 2004a, Towards a corpus of 19 th -century Scottish correspondence, Linguistica e Filologia 18, 195-214. 2004b, Scotticisms in Johnson s Dictionary: A Lexicographer s Perceptions of a Sociolinguistic Change in Progress. In The History of English and the Dynamics of Power, a cura di E. Barisone, L. Maggioni e P. Tornaghi, Alessandria, Dell Orso, 137-153. 2003a Arbitration in Scotland: Local Specificity and International Homogeneity. In V. Bhatia, C. Candlin and M. Gotti (eds.), Legal Discourse in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts: Arbitration Texts in Europe, Bern: Lang, 87-109. 2003b, Modality and Argumentative Discourse in the Darien Pamphlets, in M. Dossena and C. Jones (eds.), Insights into Late Modern English, Bern: Lang, 283-310. 2003c, Scots, in A. Deumert and W. Vandenbussche (eds.), Germanic Standardizations Past to Present, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 383-404. 2003d, Hedging in LME, Older Scots and Early Modern English: The Case of SHOULD and WOULD, in D. Hart (ed.), English Modality in Context: Diachronic Perspectives, Bern: Lang, 197-221. 2003e, On the border: patterns of converging usage of suld and should in Older Scots, late Middle English and Early Modern English, in J. Meddemmen (ed.), The Standardizing of English, Viareggio, Baroni, 191-205 (Supplemento a Il Confronto Letterario n. 40). 2002a, Should, in M. Gotti, M. Dossena, R. Dury, R. Facchinetti and M. Lima, Variation in Central Modals: A Repertoire of Forms and Types of Usage in Middle English and Early Modern English, Bern: Lang, 235-265. 2002b, Would, in M. Gotti, M. Dossena, R. Dury, R. Facchinetti and M. Lima, Variation in Central Modals: A Repertoire of Forms and Types of Usage in Middle English and Early Modern English, Bern: Lang, 303-326. 2002c, Sides of the Same Coin: Ellipsis, Redundancy and Political Discourse in Institutional Websites, in G. Iamartino, M. Bignami and C. Pagetti (eds.), The Economy Principle in English: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Perspectives, Milano, Unicopli, 122-136. 2002d, A strong Scots accent of the mind: The Pragmatic Value of Code-Switching between English and Scots in Private Correspondence A Historical Overview, Linguistica e Filologia 14, 103-127. 2002e, There s an example of me shifting the now: lo Scottish English contemporaneo fra consapevolezza linguistica e omogeneizzazione, in M. Cini e R. Regis (a cura di), Che cosa ne pensa oggi Chiaffredo Roux? Percorsi della dialettologia percezionale all alba del nuovo millennio, Alessandria: Dell Orso, 365-374. 2001a, The Voice of Witnesses in Nineteenth-Century Accounts of the Highland Clearances, Review of Scottish Culture, 13, 40-50. 2001b, Aspetti pragmatici del testo specialistico: esperienze didattiche relative alla lingua inglese, in Quale profilo per un curriculum linguistico aziendale?, a cura di G. Garzone, Bologna, CLUEB, 191-201. 2001c, Committed Wittingly Willinglie and of Purpose : Exclusiveness and Intensification through Non- Verbal Modality in Early Modern English Legal Texts, in Modality in Specialized Texts, edited by M. Gotti and M. Dossena, Bern: Lang, 113-131. 2001d, For the aduancement of the commoun weilth: Hypotheses in Scots Scientific Discourse of the 16 th - 17 th Centuries. A Preliminary Investigation, Scottish Language, 20, 47-65. 2001e, The cruel slauchtyr that vas cruelly exsecutit: Intensification and Adverbial Modality in the Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots A Preliminary Overview, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 102, 3, 287-302. 2000a, Sense, Shortness and Salt: Ideas of Improvement in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Collections of Scottish Proverbs, Review of Scottish Culture, 12, 93-106. 2000b, Teacher Training through Technology: Trainer Discourse and the Use of Video, in Multimodality and Multimediality in the Distance Learning Age, a cura di A. Baldry, Campobasso, Palladino, 143-149. 1999a, Jack Aitken (1921-1998): A Tribute, SLIN Newsletter, 21-24. 4

1999b, Presenting the Use of Technology for Academic Purposes: An Experiment, in D. Bickerton / M. Gotti (eds.), Language Centres: Integration through Innovation-Papers from the 5 th CERCLES Conference (Bergamo, 17-19 September 1998), Plymouth, CERCLES, 143-154. 1998a, Portraiture and Self-Portraiture in Scottish Standard English, Linguistica e Filologia, 6, 27-42. 1998b, Internet come risorsa didattica, in L. Jottini (a cura di) Le attività dei Centri Linguistici in una dimensione europea, Cagliari, CUEC, 113-126. 1998c, Internet come risorsa didattica: applicazione didattica, in L. Jottini (a cura di) Le attività dei Centri Linguistici in una dimensione europea, Cagliari, CUEC, 145-148. 1998d, Diminutives in Scottish Standard English: A Case for Comparative Linguistics?, Scottish Language, 17, 22-39. 1997a, Attitudes to Scots in Burns s Correspondence, Linguistica e Filologia, 4, 91-103. 1997b, Testing Primary Learners: When? How?, Testing Sig Newsletter (IATEFL) June 1997, 2-5. 1997c, The Search for Linguistic Excellence in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, Textus, X, 2, 355-376. 1996a, Overt Scotticisms in the Vocabulary of Scottish Standard English: a matter of style?, Linguistica e Filologia, 2, 5-21. 1996b, Testing oral production at primary level: what means for what ends?, Testing Newsletter (IATEFL SIG in Testing), April 1996, 3-9; ristampato in McLean Alan C., ed., SIG Selections 1997-Special Interests in ELT, IATEFL, 1997, 110-114. 1996c, Evaluating corpora: are we asking the right questions?, in Botley, S. et al., eds., Teaching and Language Corpora 1996, UCREL Technical papers 9 (Special issue), Lancaster Univ., 244-253. 1996d, La catalogazione dei materiali didattici disponibili presso il Centro Linguistico di Ateneo, in M. Gotti, a cura di, Progetti Linguistici e Sperimentazioni Didattiche, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 17-28. 1996e, Elaborazione di test d ingresso per i corsi linguistici rivolti a utenti esterni, in M. Gotti, a cura di, Progetti Linguistici e Sperimentazioni Didattiche, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 177-206. 1996f, Corsi di preparazione linguistica per futuri insegnanti di lingue nella scuola elementare, in M. Gotti, a cura di, Progetti Linguistici e Sperimentazioni Didattiche, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 227-239. 1995a, Aspetti di catalogazione e valutazione dei materiali per l apprendimento autonomo presso i Centri Linguistici di Ateneo, Linguistica e Filologia, 1, 21-34. 1995b, Using Games in Testing Activities: Some Experiences in Italian Primary Schools, in D. Allan (ed.), Entry Points: Papers from a Symposium of the Research, Testing and Young Learners Special Interest Groups, IATEFL, Cambridge, 29-33. 1994, Objectively-scorable Placement Tests in a Communicative Approach, Testing Newsletter (IATEFL), July 1994, 2-5. 1993a, Dal software tradizionale all ipertesto. Nuovi materiali per l apprendimento linguistico, Lingua e Nuova Didattica, XXII, 1 (aprile 1993), 39-50. 1993b, Tecnologia dell informazione e nuovi strumenti di ricerca, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica e Letterature Comparate, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, n. 9, 95-108. 1993c, Le tecnologie educative nella formazione dei futuri insegnanti di lingue straniere, Atti del Convegno Inforscuola 93 -sez. C1, C.T.I., Milano, 12-20, ripubblicato con il titolo Tecnologie educative e lingue straniere in Informatica e Scuola, I, 3, 36-40. 1993d, La valutazione del software per la didattica delle lingue straniere: un ipotesi di scheda operativa, in Scuola e Lingue Moderne, XXXI, 3 (aprile 1993), 67-76. 1992a, Dialogo, drammatizzazione e animazione nell insegnamento delle lingue alla scuola elementare, Scuola e Lingue Moderne, XXX, 1 (febbraio 1992), 12-15. 1992b, La valutazione dell espressione in lingua straniera, Nuova Secondaria, X, 3 (15.11.1992), 87-90. 1990, Dal codice orale alla scrittura: gradualità ed integrazione nel curricolo della seconda lingua, La Vita Scolastica, XLIV, 13 (16 marzo 1990), 9-11. 1989, Usi del computer nell insegnamento dell inglese come lingua straniera: possibilità e prospettive, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica e Letterature Comparate, Bergamo, Istituto Universitario, 125-132. 1986, Le prime immagini della Russia nella narrativa di viaggio inglese (1555-1600), Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica e Letterature Comparate, Bergamo, Istituto Universitario, 69-75. Bergamo, 31.03.12 5