Diana Mazzarella

orcid.org/0000-0002-7650-7196

List of John Benjamins publications for which Diana Mazzarella plays a role.

Journal

Pragmatics & Cognition (P&C)

Edited by Elly Ifantidou and Louis de Saussure

ISSN 0929-0907 | E-ISSN 1569-9943

Articles

Mazzaggio, Greta, Alessandra Zappoli and Diana Mazzarella 2023 Verbal irony and the implicitness of the echo: The processing of young and older adults Pragmatics & Cognition 30:2, pp. 414–444 | Article

According to the Echoic account, irony comprehension requires recognizing the dissociative attitude expressed by the speaker toward a proposition that echoes an attributed thought. This study investigates irony processing and the role of echo across the lifespan. Through a self-paced reading… read more

Mazzarella, Diana 2014 Is inference necessary to pragmatics? New Perspectives on Utterance Interpretation and Implicit Contents, Rossi, Daniela and Nicolas Ruytenbeek (eds.), pp. 71–95 | Article

The assumption that pragmatic processes are inferential is standardly held by Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatic theories. Recently, however, it has been challenged by accessibility-based approaches to pragmatics. Recanati (2002, 2004) proposes that primary pragmatic processes (i.e. processes that… read more