University of Catania

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Catania*

Title

Semantic-Pragmatic Change from Intersubjective to Textual Meanings

EditorGiulio Scivoletto & Ryo Takamura

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 353] 2025. | edited volume

Mazzone, Marco 2026 The cooperative principle and goal schemas: At the foundations of human communication

Keywords: cooperation | intersubjectivity | ultra-sociality | goals | schemas | implicatures

In: Patterns of Context: Modelling cultural and contextual influence in utterance interpretation, Diedrichsen, Elke & Frank Liedtke (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 356] pp. 76–99

Capirci, Olga & Sabina Fontana 2026 Cognitive and functional explorations in sign language linguistics

Sign Language & Linguistics 29:1/2 pp. 2–8 | introduction

Scivoletto, Giulio & Ryo Takamura 2025 Semantic-pragmatic change from intersubjective to textual meanings

In: Semantic-Pragmatic Change from Intersubjective to Textual Meanings, Scivoletto, Giulio & Ryo Takamura (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 353]

Mazzone, Marco 2025 Communicative intentions: Private or public?: The issue of the speaker’s vs. hearer’s authority

Keywords: communicative intention | speaker’s meaning | hearer’s meaning | mental state | intersubjectivity | conversational authority | animal studies

Pragmatics & Cognition 32:2 pp. 287–310 | article

Carreras i Goicoechea, Maria 2025 El trasvase de los referentes culturales y la fraseología en las versiones españolas de I Viceré

Keywords: I Viceré (1894, 1920) | Federico De Roberto | Spanish translations (1994, 2008) | cultural references | understanding and reception

In: Aproximación a la traducción de referentes culturales en el ámbito audiovisual y literario [Approach to the translation of cultural references in the audiovisual and literary fields], Mogorrón Huerta, Pedro, Lucía Navarro-Brotons & Iván Martínez-Blasco (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 45] pp. 230–252

Caligiore, Gaia 2025 Italian Sign Language: Searching for common ground between the sociosemiotic perspective and computational annotation

Keywords: Italian Sign Language (LIS) | computational annotation | sign language datasets | multi-layered representation | sign language processing | data accessibility

Sign Language & Linguistics 29:1/2 pp. 33–60 | article

Raniolo, Erika 2025 The role of “intersensoriality” in the process of poetic translation from Italian into Italian Sign Language (LIS) and vice versa

Keywords: intersensoriality | senses | translation | sign languages | vocal languages | poetry | body | embodied cognition

Sign Language & Linguistics 29:1/2 pp. 212–223 | article

Ponton, Douglas Mark, Vladimir I. Ozyumenko & Tatiana V. Larina 2024 Revisiting the rhetorical construction of political consent: ‘We-strategies’ and pronouns in British and Russian Covid-19 discourse

Keywords: political discourse | persuasion | strategy of involvement | English | Russian

Journal of Language and Politics 24:3 pp. 437–459 | article

Alfonzetti, Giovanna 2023 A European model of polite conversation?: Della Casa, Gioia and Knigge

Keywords: conduct books | conversation | Della Casa | Gioia | Knigge | politeness

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1 pp. 105–123 | article

Volterra, Virginia, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo & Sabina Fontana 2022 Italian Sign Language from a cognitive and socio-semiotic perspective: Implications for a general language theory

In: Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective: Implications for a general language theory, Volterra, Virginia, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo & Sabina Fontana[Gesture Studies, 9] p.  ff.

Conti, Daniela, Grazia Trubia, Serafino Buono, Santo Di Nuovo & Alessandro Di Nuovo 2022 An empirical study on integrating a small humanoid robot to support the therapy of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability

Keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorder | intellectual disability | socially assistive robotics | TEACCH approach | robot-assisted therapy

Interaction Studies 22:2 pp. 177–211 | article

Scivoletto, Giulio 2021 Semasiological cyclicity in the evolution of discourse markers: A case from Sicilian

Keywords: cyclicity | discourse markers | semasiology | Sicilian

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 21:2 pp. 236–262 | article

Conti, Daniela, Carla Cirasa, Santo Di Nuovo & Alessandro Di Nuovo 2020 “Robot, tell me a tale!”: A social robot as tool for teachers in kindergarten

Keywords: educational robotics | human-robot interaction | kindergarten | social robotics | storytelling

Interaction Studies 21:2 pp. 220–242 | article

Zago, Raffaele 2019 English films vs Italian films: A comparative analysis via the Pavia Corpus of Film Dialogue and the WordSmith Tools

Keywords: comparability | verbs | orality | diegesis | dispersion

In: Reassessing Dubbing: Historical approaches and current trends, Ranzato, Irene & Serenella Zanotti (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 148] pp. 229–241

Ponton, Douglas Mark 2016 Kratochvíl, Petr & Tomáš Doležal. 2015. The European Union and the Catholic Church. Political Theology of European Integration

Journal of Language and Politics 15:5 pp. 643–645 | book review

Plebe, Alessio, Marco Mazzone & Vivian De la Cruz 2011 Colors and color adjectives in the cortex

In: New Directions in Colour Studies, Biggam, Carole P., Carole Hough, Christian Kay & David R. Simmons (eds.)  pp. 415–428

Ponton, Douglas M. 2010 The female political leader: A study of gender-identity in the case of Margaret Thatcher

Keywords: Identity inferences | self-categorization theory | political discourse analysis | Evaluation | Appraisal Framework | gender identity | social stereotype

Journal of Language and Politics 9:2 pp. 195–218 | article

Fontana, Sabina 2008 Mouth actions as gesture in sign language

Keywords: sign language | gestures in sign language | mouthpatterns | non manual features

Gesture 8:1 pp. 104–123 | article

Sturiale, Massimo 2006 William Perry’s The Royal Standard English Dictionary (1775): A provincial’s attempt to ascertain and fix a standard to the pronunciation of the English tongue

Historiographia Linguistica 33:1/2 pp. 139–168 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.