Diana Mazzarella

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

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Mazzaggio, Greta, Alessandra Zappoli and Diana Mazzarella 2023 Verbal irony and the implicitness of the echo: The processing of young and older adultsPragmatics & Cognition 30:2, pp. 412–443 | Article
Speakers can express a critical, dissociative attitude by being ironic. According to the Echoic account of verbal irony, this attitude targets a proposition that echoes a thought attributed to someone other than the speaker herself at the present time. This study investigated the role of echo in… 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