IL PROGETTO PRIN 2022 PNRR “DIZIONARIO DELL’ITALIANO ACCADEMICO: FORME E FUNZIONI TESTUALI” (DIA): PRIME ACQUISIZIONI E PROSPETTIVE
Davide Mastrantonio, Abdelmagid Sakr, Michela Dota, Serena Nardella · 2025 · 16 citationsRead the paper
Il contributo presenta il progetto PRIN 2022 PNRR “Dizionario dell’italiano accademico: forme e funzioni testuali” (DIA)” e le prime acquisizioni a un anno dal suo avvio. Il progetto intende impostare una riflessione sistematica sulla natura del cosiddetto “lessico accademico” e realizzarne un dizionario consultabile gratuitamente in rete. Per tanto, dopo aver illustrato le ipotesi di lavoro intorno al concetto di lessico accademico, nel contributo si presenta una prima e provvisoria proposta di lemmario, articolato in funzioni comunicativo-testuali, di cui si illustrano i presupposti concettuali. Si presentano, inoltre, alcuni risultati ottenuti con le indagini lessicometriche automatizzate, condotte sul corpus appositamente allestito per il progetto, di cui si espongono in dettaglio fisionomia e criteri di composizione. Conclude il contributo una prospettiva sulle direttrici di ricerca future. The prin 2022 pnrr Project ‘Dictionary of Academic Italian: forms and textual functions’ (DIA): first acquisitions and perspectives This paper presents the PRIN2022 PNRR project “Dictionary of Academic Italian: forms and textual functions” (DIA) and the first acquisitions one year after its start. The aim of the project is to carry out a systematic reflection on the nature of the so-called “academic lexicon” and to produce a dictionary of it. This dictionary will be freely available online. Therefore, the paper presents a partial and provisional proposal of headwordsand and its organisation into communicative-textual functions, after illustrating the working hypotheses around the concept of academic lexicon and clarifying the conceptual assumptions. It also presents some results of automated lexicometric surveys carried out on the corpus specially created for the project, whose physiognomy and composition criteria are thoroughly illustrated. The paper concludes with an outlook on future research directions.
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A specialized writing tool for non-native speakers and students that suggests precise academic terminology and phrasing based on specific communicative-textual functions.
AI score 73/100A web tool that helps researchers and students write better academic Italian by suggesting vocabulary organized by communicative function (e.g., 'to introduce a hypothesis', 'to contrast findings'), drawing directly on the DIA dictionary's function-based headword structure.
AI score 51/100A free online tool that lets researchers and students look up academic Italian vocabulary not alphabetically but by communicative purpose—e.g., 'how to hedge a claim,' 'how to introduce a methodology'—drawing directly on the DIA dictionary's function-based headword structure.
AI score 48/100A reusable pipeline and methodology — modeled on DIA's corpus construction and automated lexicometric analysis — offered as a service to linguistic research groups in other languages or disciplines who want to build their own function-organized academic vocabulary resources.
AI score 35/100A reusable, automated lexicometric analysis pipeline—modeled on the DIA project's corpus methodology—offered as a service to research consortia building academic lexicons for other national languages, accelerating their corpus construction and headword selection.
AI score 32/100