Affiliation – Education – Published Research – Forthcoming Publications
– Conference Papers
Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Comparate
Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere
Università degli Studi di
Bergamo
Via Salvecchio, 19 – 24129 Bergamo (Italy)
Tel.: ++39 (0)35 2052-747
Fax: ++39 (0)35 2052-789
E-mail: marina.dossena at unibg.it
Laurea
cum laude, Foreign Languages and Literature, Univ. of Bergamo, Italy, 1985
(Major:
English literature; minor: Russian literature)
English linguistics (modality), English
historical dialectology, varieties of English in Britain; ESP; English as a
Foreign Language: teaching methodology and teacher training.
British
Council Scholarship for Italian Teacher Trainers, Univ. of East Anglia, 1993
Teaching
Fellowship as a foreign language assistant, Univ.
of Edinburgh (UK), Dept. of Italian, 1984-85
Reviewer, Linguistica e Filologia, Univ. of Bergamo;
Current Editor of
the Online
Bibliography of Scots and Scottish English.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Associazione Italiana di
Anglistica (Treasurer 2001-2003; 2003-2005); European Society for the Study of
English; Association for Scottish Literary Studies; Centro di Ricerca sui
Linguaggi Specialistici (Univ. of Bergamo)
Associate
Professor, English Language and Linguistics, Univ. of Bergamo, 2001-present
Gastprofessorin
(Visiting Professor) at Innsbruck University (Austria), Sommersemester
2003.
Researcher,
English Language and Linguistics, Univ. of Milan, 1998-2001
Teacher,
English Language and Literature, Italian secondary schools, 1987-92; 1992-98
Foreign
language assistant, Italian, Univ. of Edinburgh, 1984-85.
2004, Methods and Data in English Historical
Dialectology, edited by Marina Dossena and Roger Lass. Bern, Peter Lang.
2003, Insights into Late Modern English, edited
by Marina Dossena and Charles Jones, Bern, Peter Lang.
2002a, Variation in Central Modals: A Repertoire of
Forms and Types of Usage in Middle English and Early Modern English, by
Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena, Richard Dury, Roberta Facchinetti and Maria Lima,
Bern, Peter Lang.
2002b, Conflict and
Negotiation in Specialized Texts, edited by Maurizio Gotti, Dorothee Heller
and Marina Dossena, Bern, Peter Lang.
2001, Modality in
Specialized Texts, edited by Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena, Bern, Peter
Lang.
2004a,
‘Towards a corpus of nineteenth-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,
2003c
‘Scots’, in A. Deumert and W. Vandenbussche (eds.), Germanic
Standardizations – Past to Present, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 383-404.
2003d, ‘Hedging
in Late Middle English, 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.
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, “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, Peter Lang, 113-131.
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,
‘The Voice of Witnesses in Nineteenth-Century Accounts of the Highland Clearances’,
Review of Scottish Culture, 13, 40-50.
2001d, ‘For the aduancement of the commoun weilth:
Hypotheses in Scots Scientific Discourse of the 16th-17th
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,
‘Truth and Murder Will Out: Quoted
Speech and Reported Speech in Nineteenth-Century Accounts of the Highland
Clearances’, in English Diachronic
Pragmatics, a cura di G. Di Martino e M. Lima, Napoli, CUEN, 299-318.
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.
2000c,
‘Sense, Shortness and Salt: Ideas of Improvement in Eighteenth- and
Nineteenth-Century Collections of Scottish Proverbs’, Review of Scottish Culture, 12, 93-106.
1999a,
‘Jack Aitken (1921-1998): A Tribute’, SLIN
Newsletter, 21-24.
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 5th CERCLES
Conference (Bergamo, 17-19 September 1998), Plymouth, CERCLES, 143-154.
1998a,
‘Diminutives in Scottish Standard English: A Case for Comparative
Linguistics?’, Scottish Language, 17,
22-39.
1998b, ‘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.
1998c, ‘Internet
come risorsa didattica’, in L. Jottini (a cura di) Le attività dei Centri Linguistici in una dimensione europea,
Cagliari, CUEC, 113-126.
1998d,
‘Portraiture and Self-Portraiture in Scottish Standard English’, Linguistica e Filologia, 6, 27-42.
1997a,
‘The Search for Linguistic Excellence in Eighteenth-Century Scotland’, Textus, X, 2, 355-376.
1997b, ‘Riscopriamo la verifica’, Diarioelle, III, 8 (giugno 1997), 6-8.
1997c,
‘Testing Primary Learners: When? How?’, Testing
Sig Newsletter (IATEFL SIG in Testing) June 1997, 2-5.
1997d, ‘Attitudes to
Scots in Burns’s Correspondence’, Linguistica
e Filologia, 4, 91-103.
1996a, ‘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.
1996b, ‘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.
1996c, ‘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.
1996d,
‘Evaluating corpora: are we asking the right questions?’, in Botley, S. et al.,
eds., Proceedings of Teaching and
Language Corpora 1996, UCREL Technical papers 9 (Special issue), Lancaster
University, 244-253.
1996e,
‘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.
1996f,
‘Overt Scotticisms in the Vocabulary of Scottish Standard English: a matter of
style?’, Linguistica e Filologia, 2,
5-21.
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 SIG in
Testing), July 1994, 2-5.
1993a, ‘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.
1993b, ‘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.
1993c, ‘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.
1993d, ‘Dal software
tradizionale all’ipertesto. Nuovi materiali per l’apprendimento linguistico’, Lingua e Nuova Didattica, XXII, 1
(aprile 1993), 39-50.
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 novembre 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.
Books
Scotticisms in Grammar and
Vocabulary - “Like runes upon a standin' stane, Edinburgh:
Birlinn.
Business
and Official Correspondence: Historical Investigations, edited by Marina
Dossena and Susan Fitzmaurice, Bern, Peter Lang.
Articles
‘All that Glitters:
Information and Persuasion in Political Websites’, in N. Vasta (ed.) Forms of Promotion: Texts, Contexts and
Cultures. Bologna, Pàtron.
‘Language
policy in Scotland today: the (strange?) case of Scots’,
(in cooperation with J. Derrick McClure). Proceedings of the Conference Sociolinguistics
and Language Planning (Ortisei, 12-14 December 2002).
‘The times they’re a-changing: The Abolition of
Feudal Tenure (Scotland) Act 2000 and Linguistic Strategies of Popularization’.
In Evangelisti, P. (ed.), The
Formulation of Legal Concepts across Systems and Cultures, Bern, Lang.
‘Business
Letter Meets Legal Text: 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.
2004, 25th ICAME
Conference, Verona, 19-23 maggio 2004, ‘MILK and COCOA: how many tags for a
diachronic ESP corpus?’ (work-in-progress report)
2004, Convegno THE
FORMULATION OF LEGAL CONCEPTS ACROSS SYSTEMS AND CULTURES, Roma (IUSM), 17-19
giugno 2004, ‘“The times they’re a-changing”: The Abolition of Feudal Tenure
(Scotland) Act 2000 and Linguistic Strategies of Popularization’.
2004, 2nd
International Conference on English
Historical Lexicography and Lexicology, Gargnano, 22-24 giugno 2004, ‘“In
Tartan dress and armour”: James Adams’ Vindication
of the Scottish Dialect (1799)’.
2002,
Convegno Sociolinguistics and Language
Planning, Ortisei, 12-14 dicembre 2002, ‘Language policy in Scotland
today: the (strange?) case of Scots’.
2002,
6° CONVEGNO ESSE, Strasbourg, 30 August – 3 September 2002, ‘Scots lexis in
Scottish English – the legacy of eighteenth-century perceptions today’.
2002, 12th
ICEHL Conference, Glasgow, 21-26 August 2002, ‘Towards a study of modality in
Older Scots’.
2002,
11th Methods in Dialectology
Conference, Joensuu, 5-10 August 2002, ‘Towards
a corpus of nineteenth-century Scottish correspondence’.
2001,
International Conference on Late Modern
English, Edinburgh, 29th August – 1st September
2001, ‘Modality and Argumentative Discourse in the Darien Pamphlets’ (plenary lecture).
2001, 10th SLIN
Conference, Pavia, 13-15.9.2001, ‘On
the border: patterns of converging usage of suld
and should in Older Scots, late Middle English and Early Modern
English?’.
2000,
Convegno FORMS OF PROMOTION, Trieste, 14-15 December 2000, ‘All That Glitters:
Information and Persuasion in Political Websites’.
2000,
5th ESSE Conference, Helsinki, 25-29 August 2000, ‘A Good Scots
Accent of the Mind: Code-Switching between Scots and English in 19th-Century
Private Correspondence’.
2000,
11th ICEHL Conference, Santiago de Compostela, 6-12 September 2000,
‘Scots Lexis in Johnson’s Dictionary’.
2000,
1° CONVEGNO CERLIS, LA MODALITA’ NEI TESTI SPECIALISTICI, Bergamo, 5-6 May
2000, ‘“Committed Wittingly Willinglie
and of Purpose”: Exclusiveness and Intensification through Non-Verbal
Modality in EModE Legal Texts’.
2000,
“Brothers in the Muse”: Fergusson-Burns
Conference, Glasgow, 14-15 January 2000, ‘“Not the Result of Chance”: James Adams’ Vindication of the Scottish Dialect (1799)’.
1999,
IX CONVEGNO NAZIONALE DI STORIA DELLA LINGUA INGLESE, English Historical Pragmatics, Naples, 13-15 May 1999, ‘Truth and
Murder Will Out: Reported Speech and Quoted Speech in 19th-Century
Accounts of the Highland Clearances’;
1999, Convegno “Quale profilo per un curriculum linguistico
aziendale?”, Milan, Università ‘Bocconi’, 5.10.1999, ‘Aspetti pragmatici
del testo specialistico: esperienze didattiche relative alla lingua inglese’.
1999,
9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SCOTTISH
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, St.Andrews, 7-11 August 1999, ‘Intensifiers in the
Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots’;
1999,
20th AIA Conference, Milan, 21-23 September 1999, ‘Sides of the Same
Coin: Ellipsis, Redundancy and Political Discourse in Institutional Websites’.
1998,
5th CercleS Conference, Bergamo, 17-19 September 1998, ‘Presenting
the Use of Technology for Academic Purposes: An Experiment’.
1998,
10th ICEHL Conference, Manchester, 21st-26th
August 1998, ‘Sense, Shortness and Salt: Ideas of Improvement in Eighteenth-
and Nineteenth-Century Collections of Scottish Proverbs’.
1997, Seminario di Studi Le attività
dei Centri Linguistici in una dimensione europea, Cagliari, 13-15 November 1997, ‘Internet come risorsa
didattica’.
1997, Convegno
Nazionale di Storia della Lingua Inglese,
Genoa, 7-9 May 1997, ‘Scotticisms in Johnson’s Dictionary: A Lexicographer’s
Perceptions of a Sociolinguistic Change in Progress’;
1997,
5th International Conference
on Languages of Scotland and Ulster, Aberdeen, 1-5 August 1997,
‘Diminutives in Scottish Standard English: A Case for Comparative
Linguistics?’;
1996,
TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA – Lancaster University, 9-12 August 1996,
‘Evaluating corpora: are we asking the right questions?’;
1996, GENERI
DISCORSIVI, MULTIMEDIA E IPERMEDIA NELL’EDUCAZIONE LINGUISTICA, Pavia, 24-26
October 1996, ‘Teacher Training through Technology: Trainer Discourse e uso del
video’;
1996,
BRITISH COUNCIL CONFERENCE - Milan, 14-16 March 1996, ‘Testing oral production
at primary level’;
1995,
TESOL-Italy, Rome, 10-11 November 1995, ‘Exploring new paths in testing primary
learners’;
1995,
IATEFL Research, Testing and Young Learners SIGs Mini-Symposium - Cambridge,
17-18 March 1995, ‘Using games in testing activities: some experiences in
Italian primary schools’;
1993, INFORSCUOLA
‘93 - Milan, 23-26 March 1993, ‘Le tecnologie educative nella formazione dei
futuri insegnanti di lingue straniere’.
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