Publications :: Alessandro Capone Pragmatics

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Pragmatics and philosophy

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academic publications

List of publications by Dr. Alessandro Capone

Monographs

The pragmatics of indirect reports. Cham, Springer, 2016. ( Reviews in International journal of language studies, Intercultural Pragmatics, Australian Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Linguistics, Lingua).

Pragmatics and Philosophy. Connections and ramifications. Cham, Springer, 2018. ( Reviews in Journal of Linguistics, Russian journal of Linguistics).

Proper names, quasi-proper names, de se thoughts and communication. 2025. Cham, Springer.

4. Modal adverbs and discourse. Two essays by Alessandro Capone. Pisa, Edizioni Tecnico-scientifiche, 2001, pp. 179 isbn: 88-467-0456-8 (with a preface by Riccardo Ambrosini);

5. Between Semantics and Pragmatics, Bologna, Clueb, 2003, pp. 182, isbn: 88-491-2157-1 (with a preface by Sorin Stati).

6. Dilemmas and excogitations: an essay on modality, clitics and discourse. Messina, Armando Siciliano, 2000, pp. 189 (isbn: 978-88-7442-278-4) ;

7. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oxford. Modality and discourse. 1998.

Edited volumes

1. (2010) Perspectives on language use and pragmatics. A volume in memory of Sorin Stati

(Authors: Jeanne Martinet, Frans van Eemeren & Bart Garssen, Marcelo Dascal, Milena Srpova, Henriette Walter, Pottier Bernard, Jackie Schon, Cornelia Ilie, Alessandro Capone, Daniela Pirazzini, Jacques Moeschler, Carreira, Franco Lo Piparo, Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni, Castelfranchi, Cristiano & Paglieri, Fabio, Harro Stammerjohann).

2. Lincom Europa, Mūnchen . ISBN 978 3 929075 72 4. LINCOM Studies in Pragmatics 16.

3. ' Pragmemes '. Special issue of the Journal of Pragmatics. Journal of Pragmatics Volume 42, Issue 11, Pp. 2861-3162 ( November 2010) (Authors: Jacob L. Mey, Kasia Jaszczolt , Sarah Blackwell, Michel Seymour, Istvan Kecskes, Martin Montminy, Keith Allan, Jock Wong, Alessandro Capone), with Introduction by Alessandro Capone.

4. Attitudes 'de se': linguistics, epistemology, metaphysics, CSLI, Stanford, September 2013,

ISBN 9781575866659; ( authors : John Perry, James Higginbotham, Michael Devitt, Wayne A. Davis, Igor Douven , Yan Huang, Neil Feit, Kasia Jaszczolt , Eros Corazza, Michael Nelson, Darren Bradley, Mike Titelbaum , Denis Delfitto , Pietro Perconti, Alessandro Capone). With Introduction by Neil Feit and Alessandro Capone.

https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo16901425.html

5. Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy. Edited by Capone, A., Lo Piparo, F., Carapezza, M. (eds.). 2013. Introduction by Capone Alessandro, Lo Piparo Franco, Carapezza, Marco.

ISBN - 978-3-319-01010-6

6. Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics (2013). Edited by Capone A., Lo Piparo, F., Carapezza M.

ISBN - 978-3-319-01013-7

(Introduction by Capone, Lo Piparo, Carapezza). Springer, Dordrecht.

(Authors: Margaret Gilbert, Ferenc Kiefer, Wayne Davis, Kepa Korta, John Perry, Anne Bezuidenhout, Ruth Kempson, Noel Burton-Roberts, Paul Saka, Michel Seymour, Michael Devitt, Claudia Bianchi, Pietro Perconti, Marina Sbisà, Franco Lo Piparo, Marco Carapezza, Marco Mazzone, S. Gross, M. Dascal, Frans van Eemeren, Yan Huang, Klaus von Heusinger,

Alison Hall, Mandy Simons, Eros Corazza, Istvan kecskes, Keith Allan, Ernie Lepore, Martin Montminy, Francesca Piazza, etc.)

https://www.springer.com/philosophy/book/978-3-319-01010-6

https://www.springer.com/philosophy/book/978-3-319-01013-7

7. Interdisciplinary studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society, edited by Jacob L. Mey and Alessandro Capone. Springer, Dordrecht. (For the series 'Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology' edited by Alessandro Capone for Springer), 2016.

8. Indirect reports and pragmatics (Springer, Heildelberg ), edited by Capone, A., Kiefer, Ferenc, Lo Piparo, Franco, 2016.

9. Pragmemes and theories of language use. Edited by A Capone and Jacob L. Mey. Springer, 2017.

10. Pragmatics and law (vol. 1), edited by A Capone and Francesca Poggi, Cham, Springer, 2016.

11. Pragmatics and law (vol. 2), edited by A Capone and Francesca Poggi, Cham, Springer, 2016.

1 2. The Pragmeme of accommodation. Interaction around the event of death, edited by A. Capone and Vahid Parvaresh . Cham, Springer, 2017.

13. Further advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy, vol. 1, Cham, Springer; (with Carapezza and Lo Piparo).

14. Indirect reports and pragmatics in the world languages. Cham, Springer.

15. Further advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy, vol. 2, Cham, Springer (with Carapezza and Lo Piparo);

16. Exploring contextualism and performativity. (with Assunta Penna). Cham, Springer.

17. Frontiers in pragmatics (with Perconti and Graci). Cham, Springer, 2024.

18. Philosophy, cognition, and pragmatics (with P. Perconti and R. Graci). Cham, Springer, 2025.

Articles in academic journals

Graci, R. & Capone, A. 2025. A pragmatic view on referential acts in aphasia. Language and health 3/1, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100050

Proper names as speech acts. Intercultural Pragmatics, 21 /5, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2024-5003
Quasi-proper names. In Annals of Ca' Foscari, Western series, 58, 2024.

https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2024/58/on-quasi-proper-names/

Perspectives on the semantics/pragmatics debate: insights from aphasia research. (with R. Graci), 2024. Frontiers in Psychology. 14, 2023.

Pragmemes revisited (with Roberto Graci) Frontiers in Pragmatics, vol. 15 /doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1329291

Presuppositions as pragmemes : The case of exemplification acts. Intercultural Pragmatics. Intercultural Pragmatics 17 /1, 53-75, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2020-0003

Poems as pragmemes . RASK, International Journal of Language and Communication, 54 , 65-80.

Metalanguage and subjectivity in indirect reports (with Mostafa Moghaddam). "Language", 2019.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337656462_Metalanguage_and_Subjectivity_in_Indirect_Reports

9. Presuppositions as pragmemes . Intercultural pragmatics, 17 /1, 53-75.

10. First Person Implicit Indirect Reports (or Indirect Reports in Disguise). Versus 128/1, (2019), pp. 137-157.

Pragmemes (again). Language 209 (2018) 89—104.

12. Reply to kecskes (on salience). Networks , Knowledge , Languages , 2017.

13. Précis by Capone in response to Zhang and Zhang. "Journal of Pragmatics" 117, 2017 , 273-279.

14. Conversational presuppositions. Presupposition as defeasible inference, Intercultural Pragmatics 2017, 14 , 557 -583.

15. Presuppositions as conversational phenomena. " Lingua" 195 (2017 ), pp. 1-16. (published online July 12, 2017 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384117301092 ).

16. Indirectly reporting grammatical, lexical and morphological errors. "International Journal of Language Studies" 12 /1 (2018), 19-36. ( In press ) .

17. Uncommon ground. "Intercultural Pragmatics" 13/2, (2016), 151-180. (With Fabrizio Macagno).

18. Capone, A. Interpretative disputes, explicatures and argumentative reasoning. (with Fabrizio Macagno ). " Argumentation" 30 , 4, 2016, 399-422.

19. Indirect reports, slurs, and the polyphonic speaker. "Networks, knowledge, languages" (Il Mulino), 2/2014, 299-318.

20. On indirect reports and language games: Evidence from Persian. (Co-author Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan). "Italian Journal of Philosophy of Language" 8/2, 2014, https://www.rifl.unical.it/index.php/rifl/article/view/222

21. The role of pragmatics in (re)constructing the rational law-maker. "Pragmatics and Cognition" 21 /2 (2013), 399-415.

22. The pragmatics of quotation, explications , and modularity of mind. "Pragmatics and Society" 4(3), 2013, 259-284.

23. The pragmatics of pronominal clitics and propositional attitudes. "Intercultural Pragmatics" 10/3, 2013, 459-485.

24. Barack Obama's South Carolina Speech, "Journal of Pragmatics" 42 (2010 ), 2964 –2977.

25. Indirect reports as language games. "Pragmatics and Cognition" 20/3 (2012), 593-613.

26. On Grice's circle (further considerations on the semantics/pragmatics debate, "Journal of Pragmatics" 38 (2006), pp. 645-669.

27. Pragmemes . "Journal of Pragmatics" 37 (2005), pp. 1355-1371.

28. Belief reports and pragmatic intrusion: the case of null appositives. "Journal of Pragmatics" 40 (2008), pp. 1019-1040.

29. Barack Obama's South Carolina's speech. "RASK: International Journal of Language and Communication" 27 (2008), pp. 87-122.

30. Are explanations cancelable? "Journal of Intercultural Pragmatics" 6/1 (2009), pp. 55-83.

31. Reflections on the cancelability of explicatures . "RASK: International Journal of Language and Communication" vol. 30, 2009, pp. 113-153.

32. On the social practice of indirect reports. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (2010), pp. 377–391.

33. "Between Scylla and Charibdis ": The semantics and pragmatics of attitudes 'de se '. "Journal of Intercultural Pragmatics" 7/3 (2010), pp. 471-503.

34. What can modularity of mind tell us about the semantics/pragmatics debate? "Australian Journal of linguistics", 30/4 (2010), pp. 497-522.

35. Default semantics and the architecture of the mind. "Journal of Pragmatics", 43 (2011), pp. 1741–1754.

36. The attributive/referential distinction, pragmatics, modularity of mind and modularization. "Australian Journal of Linguistics" 31/2 (2011 ), pp. 153-186.

37. Knowing how and pragmatic intrusion. "Intercultural Pragmatics" 8/4 (2011), pp. 543-570.

38. Introduction to Pragmemes . "Journal of Pragmatics", vol. 42 (2010), pp. 2861–2869.

39. On pragmemes again. Dealing with death. "La Linguistique " 46/2 (2010), pp. 3-21.

40. On the tension between semantics and pragmatics. "RASK: International Journal of Language and Communication ", 2013 , 37, 5-39.

41. Missing topical sentences and implicatures, "Lingua e Stile", 26/1 (1991), pp. 67-79;

42. How to respond to an initiative assertion, "La Linguistique ", 28/1 (1992), pp. 15-25;

43. "Obviously" as a discourse marker of concessivity , "Lingua e Stile" 28/1 (1993), pp. 3-30;

44. Dilemmas and excogitations: pragmatics, clitics and propositional attitudes, in Romance Linguistics and Philology, Department of Linguistics, University of Oxford, Working Papers in linguistics, 4 (1999), pp. 18-32;

45. Dilemmas and Excogitations: considerations on modality, clitics and discourse, "Lingua e Stile" 35/3 (2000), pp. 447-469;

46. On Grice's circle (further considerations on the semantics/pragmatics debate), "RASK: International Journal of Language and Communication" 19 (2003), pp. 1-29;

47. "I saw you" (towards a theory of the pragmeme ), "RASK: international Journal of Language and Communication" 20 (2004), pp. 27-44.

Critical Reviews

1. Review of Higginbotham, J., Pianesi , F. Varzi , A, eds. 'Speaking of Events', "Linguistics" 39/ 6 (2001), pp. 1179-1192.

2. Review of Cappelen, H. & Lepore, E. Insensitive Semantics, "Journal of Pragmatics" 40 (2008) pp.1626–1635.

3. Review of Lepore & Ludwig (2005). Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality, "Journal of Pragmatics" 39 (2007), pp.1039-1046.

4. Review of Lepore & Smith, Eds. The Oxford Handbook of philosophy of language. "Journal of Pragmatics" 39/11 (2007), pp. 2080-2089.

5. Review of Wierzbicka, Anna. (2006). English, meaning, and culture, "Studies in Language" 32/2 (2008), pp. 457-465.

6. Review of Istvan Kecskes, Intercultural Pragmatics, "Australian Journal of Linguistics" 34/2 (2014), 293-301.

Articles in volumes

Poetics and pragmatics.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-65502-9_6

On the distinction between reference and referential presuppositions. pp. 23-44. On the Distinction Between Reference and Referential Presuppositions . In Philosophy, Cognition and pragmatics. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-50109-8_2

Reference in context. In Exploring performativity and contextualism, eds. Capone, Penna. pp. 3-23. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-12543-0_1

4. The power of pragmatics in the Gricean heritage. In Cavalieri, R., Bucca, A., eds., 2019.

5. On the social praxis of indirect reporting. In Capone, et al. eds. 2018, Indirect relations and pragmatics in the world languages.

6. 'I hope you will let Flynn go', Trump, Comey, Pragmemes and socio-pragmatics, In A. Capone, M. Carapezza, F. Lo Piparo, eds. Further advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy, vol. 2. Cham, Springer. (2018), pp.

7. Embedding explications in Implicit indirect reports: simple sentences and substitution. In A. Capone, M. Carapezza, F. Lo Piparo, eds. Further advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy, vol. 1. Cham, Springer. pp. 97-137.

8. Indirectly reporting utterances. In A. Capone, M. Garcia-Carpintero, A. Falzone, eds. Indirect reports ( and pragmatics) in the world languages. (The contract was signed by all parties).

9. On the tension between semantics and pragmatics. In K. Allan, A. Capone, I. Kecskes, eds., Pragmemes and theories of language use. Cham, Springer, 769-790, 2017.

10. Introducing the notion of the pragmeme . In K. Allan, A. Capone, I. Kecskes, eds ., 2017, Pragmemes and theories of language use. Cham, Springer, 15-24, 2017.

11. What can pragmatics learn from the law? In A. Capone, J.L. Mey, eds., Interdisciplinary Studies in pragmatics, culture and society. Cham, Springer, 371-396, 2015.

12 . Impure 'de se' thoughts and pragmatics (and how this is relevant to pragmatics and IEM). In A. Capone, F. Kiefer, F. Lo Piparo (eds.), 2016, The pragmatics of indirect reports. Heidelberg, Springer, 521-540, 2016.

13. Jacob L. Mey and Alessandro Capone, Pragmatics, linguistics, and socio-cultural diversity. In J. Mey, A. Capone, eds., Interdisciplinary studies in Pragmatics and Philosophy. Heidelberg, Springer, 1-10, 2015.

14. Indirectly reporting and translating slurring utterances, In A. Capone, F. Kiefer, F. Lo Piparo (eds.), The pragmatics of indirect reports. Heidelberg, Springer, 233-252, 2016.

15. The problem of 'de se' attitudes (with Neil Feit). In Feit, N., Capone, A. (Eds.), Attitudes 'de se': linguistics, epistemology and metaphysics. Stanford, CSLI, 2013, pp. 1-25, 2013.

16. Consequences of the pragmatics of 'de se' In Feit, N., Capone, A. (Eds.), Attitudes 'de se': linguistics, epistemology and metaphysics. Stanford, CSLI, 2013, pp. 209-244, 2013.

17. Further considerations on semantic Minimalism. In Capone, A., Lo Piparo, F., Carapezza, M. (Eds.). Perspectives on pragmatics and philosophy. Springer, 437 -475, 2013.

18. Immunity to error through misidentification, 'de se' and pragmatic intrusion. In Capone, A., Lo Piparo, F., Carapezza, M. (Eds.). Perspectives on pragmatics and philosophy. Springer, 413 - 436, 2013.

19. The pragmatics of indirect reports and slurring. In Capone, A., Lo Piparo, F., Carapezza, M. (Eds.), Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics. Dordrecht, Springer, 153-185, 2013.

20. Explanations are NOT cancelable. In Capone, A., Lo Piparo, F., Carapezza, M. (Eds.), Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics. Dordrecht, Springer, 131-152, 2013.

21. Pragmemes revisited. Conflicts and power within the class. In Capone, A., (Ed.), Perspectives on language use and pragmatics, Lincom , pp.149-168, 2010.

22. On Pragmemes again. Dealing with death. In Capone, A., (Ed.). Perspectives on language use and pragmatics, Lincom , pp. 169-180, 2010.

23. Dilemmas and excogitations: further considerations on modality, clitics and discourse, in K. Turner, K. Jaszczolt (Ed.), Meanings in contrast, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2002, pp. 147-176.

24. Presuppositional clitics, propositional attitudes, and binding theories of presupposition, in Künhlein , P, Rieser, Zeevat , H., (Eds.), Pre-conference Proceedings of the Bielefeld Bi-dialog workshop, 14-16 June 2001, pp. 132-140.

25. Theories of presuppositions and presuppositional clitics, in Künhlein , P, Zeevat , H., Rieser, H. (Eds.), Perspectives on dialogue in the new millennium, New York, John Benjamins, 2003, 111-133.

26. Deviant Utterances, in Stati, S., Hundsnurscher , F. & Weigand, E., (Eds.), Dialoganalyse III, Tübingen, Niemeyer, 1991, 107 - 115;

27. How to respond to an initiative assertion, in Ducos, G., (Ed.) Actes XVIII colloque internationale de linguistique function , Prague 12/17 July- 1991, 229 -232.

28. "Obviously" and the modal myth, in Löffler, H., (Ed.) Dialoganalyse IV, Tübingen, Niemeyer, 1992, 33 -40;

29. Dialogue analysis and inferential pragmatics, in Weigand, E., (Ed.), Future perspectives in dialogue analysis, Tübingen, Niemeyer, 147-161, 1993.

30. Invitation to the study of dialogue , in Weigand, E., (Ed.), Dialogue Analysis: Units, relations and strategies beyond the sentence (contributions in honor of Sorin Stati's 65th birthday), Niemeyer, 43-52, 1997.

31. Verbs of propositional attitude, in Pugliatti, Paola, (Ed.), Mnema, Messina, Armando Siciliano, 265-292, 1998.

Articles appeared in the "Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics" (Oxford, Elsevier) (2005):

32. Speech acts (literal and non-literal) pp. 4143-4144;

33. Speech acts (definition and classification) pp. 4124-4127;

34. Bernstein (restricted and elaborate code);

35. Shared knowledge pp. 3872-3873;

Reviews

1. Review of R. Stalnaker's 'Context and Content', "Journal of Linguistics", 36/2 (2000), pp. 1;

2. Review of Krahmer's 'Presupposition and Anaphora', "Journal of Linguistics" 37/1 (2001), pp. 219-224;

3. Review of Turner's 'The semantics/pragmatics debate from different points of view', "Journal of Linguistics" 37, pp.445-450;

4. Review of Levinson's 'Presumptive meanings', "Language" 77/3 (2001), pp. 578-580;

5. Review of Jaszczolt's 'Discourse, beliefs and intentions', "Pragmatics and Cognition" 9/2 (2002), pp. 354-361;

6. Review of Chierchia & McConnell-Ginet's New Meaning and Grammar, "Lingua" 112 (2002), pp. 121-126;

7. Booknotice : Bosch, P. & van der Sandt, R.'s, eds., 'Focus'. "Language" 78/3;

8. Review of Jaszczolt's 'The pragmatics of propositional attitude reports', "Lingua" 113 (2003), pp. 167-172;

9. Review of Stati's 'Principles of Analysis argumentative ', "Argumentation" 17 (2003), pp. 347-350;

10. Review of Levinson's 'Presumptive meanings', "The Australian Journal of Linguistics" 2 (2000), pp. 270-276;

11. Review of J. Mey's 'Pragmatics', "Linguistics ", 41/6 (2003), pp. 1170-1173;

12. Review of Carston's "Thoughts and utterances", "Linguistics" 42/6 (2004), pp. 1185-1189.

13. Review of Recanati's "Literal Meaning", "Journal of Linguistics" 41 (2005), pp. 44-49.

14. Review of Corinne Iten's 'Linguistic meaning, truth conditions and relevance', "Journal of Pragmatics" 38 (2006), pp. 1346-1351.

15. Review of Franco Lo Piparo, Aristotle and Language: What Makes a Language a Language, "Journal of Pragmatics" 38 (2006), pp. 1335-1338;

16. Review of Huang, Y. (2006), Pragmatics, "Journal of Pragmatics" 39 (2007), pp. 1036-1038.

17. Review of Douglas Robinson, Introducing performative pragmatics. Journal of Pragmatics 38/8, (2006), pp. 1332-1334.

18. Review of Douglas Robinson. Performative linguistics. Speaking and translating as doing things with words. "Journal of Pragmatics" 38/8, (2006), pp. 1319-1322.

19. Review of Monaghan & Goodman (eds.), A cultural approach to interpersonal communication, "The Australian Journal of Linguistics" 28/2 (2008), pp. 257-259.

20. Review of Duranti , A., A companion to linguistic anthropology, "Journal of Intercultural Pragmatics" 7/2 (2010), pp. 401–417.

21. Review of Cappelen & Lepore, Insensitive Semantics. A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism, in " Critica : Revista HispanoAmericana de philosophy " 40/ 120 (2008), pp. 148-152.

22. Review of Felice Cimatti. The face and the word. In "Journal of Pragmatics" 41 (2009) pp. 1449–1450.

23. Review of J. Stanley, Language in context. In "Australian Journal of Linguistics" 31/1, 143-149.

24. Review of Francesca Piazza. Aristotle's Rhetoric. In "Argumentation" 24 (2010), pp. 135-137.

25. Review of Cappelen, H. & Lepore, E. Language turned upon itself. In "Journal of Pragmatics" 41 (2009) pp. 1862–1864.

26. Review of K. Jaszczolt , Representing time. In "Journal of Pragmatics" 41 (2009), pp. 1859–1861.

27. Review of K. Jaszczolt , Default semantics. In "Journal of Pragmatics" 41 (2009), pp. 2572–2574.

28. Review of Carruthers, P. The architecture of the mind. "Pragmatics & Cognition" 18/2 (2010), pp. 468–472.

29. Review of James Higginbotham, Tense, aspect and indexicality. "Australian Journal of Linguistics", 30/3 (2010), pp. 373-376.

30. Review of Cummings, Louise. Clinical Pragmatics. "Australian Journal of Linguistics" 31/3 (2011), pp. 371-372.

31. Review of Alessandra Pandolfo, The Rules of Understanding. "Australian Journal of Linguistics" 31/2 (2011), pp. 269-272.

32. Review by Alessandra Giorgi, About the speaker. Towards a syntax of indexicality (OUP), accepted by "Australian Journal of Linguistics";

33. Review of 'La mitigazione' (by Claudia Caffi), "Language" 80/3.

34. Review of "Introduction to Indo-European Glottology' (Riccardo Ambrosini), "Language" 79/1;

35. Review of 'Perspectives on semantics, pragmatics and discourse' (Kenesei and Harnish), "Language" 79/1.

36. Review of 'Focus' (Peter Bosh, Robert van der Sandt), " Language" 78 /3.

Edited special issues of academic journals

Thematic Issues of "Intercultural Pragmatics" (edited by Dr Capone).

TIPP 2025 VOL 22 issue 1

https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2025-0001

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Volume 21 Issue 3

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Volume 20 Issue 3 - Thematic Issue: Pragmatics and Philosophy (TIPP-5)

https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/iprg/20/3/html?srsltid=AfmBOoplU6a7Hfmo8WPBTlfgYCTi7ccAKCkhdK20GYyMLpJCtqpAvZjG

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Volume 18 (2021)

Issue 3 Thematic Issue: Pragmatics and Philosophy (TIPP- 4 ); Editor: Alessandro Capone

https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/iprg/18/3/html

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Volume 18 Issue 3 - Thematic Issue: Pragmatics and Philosophy (TIPP-3)

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Volume 16 Issue 3 - Thematic Issue: Pragmatics and Philosophy (TIPP-2)

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Volume 15 Issue 2 - Thematic Issue: Pragmatics and Philosophy (TIPP1), Editor: Alessandro Capone

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https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2024/58/on-quasi-proper-names/

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1329291/full

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0024384117304102

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-19146-7

https://www.amazon.it/Pragmatics-Indirect-Reports-Socio-philosophical-Considerations/dp/3319410776

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Dr. Alessandro Capone (full professor)

Curriculum vitae

Short cv

Dr Alessandro Capone

PhD Linguistics, University of Oxford;

PhD philosophy of language, University of Palermo.

Habilitation for associate and full professor: Linguistics, Philosophy of language

Full professor of linguistics, University of Messina

Editor in chief Perspectives in pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, SPRINGER

Interim editor (2025) Intercultural pragmatics

Member of scientific committees of international journals

Two of his monographs were translated into Arabic and Chinese.

He was part of the ASN committee (Italy) (appeals section)

Examiner Venice, Perugia, Messina, full professor, researcher, associate professor

Monographs:

The pragmatics of indirect reports, Springer;

Pragmatics and Philosophy, Connections and ramifications;

Proper names, quasi-proper names, de se thoughts and communication. Springer.

He published numerous papers in international journals (usually A publications).

He edited numerous books and volumes for Lincolm, Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Springer, Chicago University Press. His publications include de se attitudes, proper names, indirect reports, definite descriptions, knowing how vs. knowing that, implicit indirect reports, cancellability of explicatures, substitution of NPs in simple sentences, Modality and discourse, pragmemes, reference, knowledge verbs and presuppositional clitics, conversational presuppositions, etc.

Long cv

Dr Alessandro Capone graduated on November 3, 1988 from the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Messina – Degree Course in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (English and German) – with 110/110 cum laude, after discussing a thesis entitled 'Model of pragmatic analysis: 'Typhoon' by Joseph Conrad.

He obtained the title of 'Master of Philosophy' in general linguistics from the University of Oxford (a two-year postgraduate course by examinations and thesis) in July 1992.

He also received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in general linguistics from the Committee of General Linguistics and Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford, chaired by Professor Anna Morpurgo Davis. He was supervised by Professor Yan Huang and examined by Professors James Higginbotham and Sally McConnell-Ginet in January 1998.

The doctoral thesis is entitled 'Modality and discourse'. It deals with various modal expressions and their argumentative function in discourse. This doctorate has been declared equivalent by the Ministry of University and Scientific Research with a ministerial decree (see the attached decree of equivalence).

He has received research grants from the British Academy (period 1 October 1991 - 30 September 1993), from the British Council, from the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Messina (period 1.1.94-31.12.1994), from the Ministry of Scientific Research (Rome), from Magdalen College, Oxford.

He obtained in 2012 (April) (with a thesis entitled 'Between Minds. Representing one's own and others' minds through explicatures') the title of 'Doctor of Research in Philosophy of Language and Mind' at the Fieri Department of the University of Palermo, examined by Professors Francesca Piazza, Pietro Perconti, and Paolo Leonardi.

He was a research fellow at the Department of Glottology and Linguistics of the University of Messina (for the period 2000-2002). (He regularly held seminars on semantics and pragmatics for two years (course of linguistics for languages)).

He was a contract professor of Glottodidactics at the University of Messina (2002-2003).

He was a lecturer in the subject "Glottology and linguistics" at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Messina. He was a tenured professor of English language and civilization at the Liceo Classico di Barcellona PG.

He is full professor of linguistics L-lin 01, at the COSPECS Department of the University of Messina.

His publications have received positive responses and reviews including:

'Dilemmas and excogitations: an essay on modality, clitics and discourse' (Marta Carretero, "Language" 79/2 (2003));

'Modal adverbs and discourse' ( Ostaeyen , Gert van, "Language" 81/2 (2005 )) ;

'Modal adverbs and discourse' (Leo Hoye, Journal of Pragmatics 37/8 (2005).

Review of the volume 'Perspectives on language use and pragmatics' in "La Linguistique " 46/1 (2010). Also reviewed in Pragmatics and Cognition 1 (2011). https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/pc.19.1.12cuc

https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.19.1.12cuc

Article in 'Il sole 24 ore' 24 Nov. 2010, p. 51.

Reviews of "Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy" and "Perspectives on linguistic pragmatics" in "Intercultural Pragmatics" (author of the reviews: M. Salmani Nodoushan). Intercultural Pragmatics 2014; 11(4): 645 – 649; Intercultural Pragmatics 2014; 11(2): 301 – 306.

Reviews of the volume 'The pragmatics of indirect reports. Socio-philosophical considerations' are appeared in "IJLS (International Journal of Language Studies)", "Intercultural Pragmatics", "Australian JL", "Journal of Linguistics", "Journal of Pragmatics", "Lingua", "Pragmatics and Society ( review article from the Dr. Caterina Scianna). A critical discussion of the volume has just been published in "Intercultural Pragmatics".

A review of the volume Pragmatics and Law (vol. 2) appeared on Linguist.list: https://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-3551.html

Review of the book 'Interdisciplinary Studies in pragmatics culture and society' which appeared in 'Pragmatics and Society'. https://philpapers.org/rec/XIEROC

The article 'Pragmemes' has been responded to by the eminent Australian scholars Alec McHoul et al. in the article 'On the luxury of context', Journal of Pragmatics 40 (2008) 827–839.

Pragmatics and philosophy. Connections and ramifications. Reviewed by Delfitto & Fiorin in Journal of Linguistics, CUP.

Dr. Capone's articles have been cited by Raymond Gibbs (jr), K. Jaszczolt, Jacob L. Mey, Istvan Kecskes, R. Carston, etc. (1125 citations counted via Google Scholar).

He was part of a national PRIN project directed by Prof. Antonino Pennisi on Performativity and is part of the doctoral college of the Department of Cognitive Sciences of the University of Messina.

He edited ' Pragmemes ', 'Special Issue' of "Journal of Pragmatics", and the volume 'Perspectives on language use and pragmatics. A volume in memory of Sorin Stati', published in 2010 (Lincom, Muenchen). Contributors to this volume include authors such as Frans van Eemeren (Amsterdam), Cristiano Castelfanchi (CNR), Marcelo Dascal (Tel Aviv), Franco Lo Piparo (Palermo), Jacob L. Mey (Odense University), Kerbrat-Orecchioni (Lyon), as well as leading linguists from the most important European academies.

He has published various volumes, edited by him, together with other professors:

Attitudes 'de se': linguistics, epistemology, Metaphysics, CSLI, Stanford (ed. Neil Feit, Alessandro Capone) (pp. 412);

vol. 1 Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy (pp. 700)

vol. 2 Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics (pp. 676),

published by Springer, Dordrecht (with Franco Lo Piparo and Marco Carapezza as co-editors) (year of publication 2013).

To these volumes they contribute authors such as Franco Lo Piparo, Francesca Piazza, John Perry (Stanford University), Wayne A. Davis (Georgetown University), Noel Burton-Roberts (University of Newcastle), Yan Huang (University of Auckland), Louise Cummings (Nottingham Trent University), K. Jaszczolt (Cambridge), M. Devitt (New York), Igor Douven ( Groninen ), Keith Allan (Monash), Margaret Gilbert, Ferenc Kiefer (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Marcelo Dascal (Tel Aviv), Paolo Leonardi (Bologna), Paul Saka, Ruth Kempson (School of African and Oriental Studies, London), Istvan Kecskes (new York at Albany), Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University), K. Von Heusinger (Cologne), Frans van Eemeren (Amsterdam), Martin Montminy, Marco Mazzone, Pietro Perconti , etc.

Together with Jacob L. Mey, Dr Capone edited the volume 'Interdisciplinary studies in pragmatics, culture and society' (2015) for Springer.

Together with Franco Lo Piparo and Ferenc Kiefer, Dr Capone edited a very important volume on 'The pragmatics of indirect reports' (2016). In the collection, names such as Wayne Davis, Ferenc Kiefer, Manuel Garcia-Carpintero, Steven Gross, K. Jaszczolt, Luvell Anderson, Louise Cummings, Eros Corazza, Michel Seymour, Keith Allan, Yan Huang, Yael Sharvit, Gutièrrez-Rexach, Raphael Salkie, Alessandra Giorgi, Ruth Kempson, Liz Holt, Neal Norrick and Janet Holmes appear.

Dr Capone co-edited, with Antonino Pennisi and Alessandra Falzone, a volume for SpringerPlus entitled 'Pragmatics, philosophy, cognitive science', with articles by JL Mey, Denis Delfitto, C Castelfranchi, A Libert, Alessandra Giorgi, etc.

Dr Capone has collaborated with Prof. Francesca Poggi of the University of Milan for the publication of two volumes (again with Springer) on 'Pragmatics and Law' (2016).

He has collaborated with the editorial staff of the "Journal of Pragmatics", both with reviews and with the activity of examiner (he has examined more than 40 articles from 2000 to 2013, many of which have been accepted). He has received from the "Journal of Pragmatics" a certificate of 'excellence' for the activity of referee.

He collaborated with "Mind & Language" as a referee (July 2019).

He collaborated with "Australian Journal of Linguistics" as a 'referee' for the years 2011-2012.

He collaborated with "Intercultural Pragmatics" as a 'referee'.

He collaborated with the magazine "Synthese" as a 'referee'.

He collaborated with the magazine "Rivista di Filosofia Analitica (junior).

He collaborated with the "Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio" as a referee for the year 2013.

He collaborated with the magazine "Erkenntnis" as a referee.

He collaborated with the journal "Pragmatics and Society" as a referee and as a member of the scientific committee.

He collaborated with the journal "Language Sciences" as a referee (September 3, 2019).

He collaborated with the magazine "Organon" as a referee (September 2019).

He was asked to collaborate by the magazine "International Journal of language Studies" (IJLS).

He is a member of the editorial boards for the following journals:

"Pragmatics and Society" (John Benjamins);

"Tongue";

"Journal of Pragmatics" (from which he obtained the certificate of 'excellence in reviewing year 2012');

"Intercultural Pragmatics"

"Pragmatics and Philosophy" (Mouton De Gruyter):

"Research studies in Pragmatics", Brill (journal to be launched soon by Yan Huang; see publisher's certificate).

"Italian Journal of Analytical Philosophy (Junior)";

"International Journal of Language Studies".

" International Arab Journal of English For Specific Purposes"

Professor Istvan Kecskes of New York University at Albany invited Dr Capone to join the editorial board of the Journal of Intercultural Pragmatics starting in 2015.

Dr Alessandro Capone was invited to write an article on "Modes of communication: Italian" for the International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication, published by Wiley-Blackwell. The article has been accepted and is in press.

Dr. Capone was part of the Scientific Committee of the conference organized by Pilar G. Blitvich and Istvan Kecskes, entitled:

1st International Pragmatics Conference of the Americas and the 5th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics, October 19-21, 2012, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA.

He was appointed as a referee for Larry Horn and Istvan Kecskses' panel (semantics/pragmatics) for the "International Congress of Linguists" (ICL 19) (le Congrès International des Linguistes, CIL 19) (2013).

He is the director of the book series:

"Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology ", from Springer publishing house (Dordrecht):

https://www.springer.com/series/11797

Dr Capone served on the editorial board of Springer Plus, a multidisciplinary journal from Springer Publishing.

He participated with communications at various conferences organized by:

SILF – International Society for Functional Linguistics (Prague July 1991);

LAGB – Linguistic Association of Great Britain (Spring session March 1994);

AIA – Italian Association of English Studies (The Anglo-American Centaur Bologna 16-18 February 1995);

IADA – International Association for Dialogue Analysis

1995 Round Table, Bologna March-April 1995;

1994 V° International Conference Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle March 94;

1992 Round Table Bologna December 92;

1992 IV° International IADA Conference Basel March 92;

1990 III° International IADA Conference December 1990;

International Conference on Argumentation in Dialogic Interaction, Lugano 30 June-3 July 2002 (Organized by Sorin Stati).

Bidialog – workshop on dialogue organized in Bielefeld by Rieser and (5th workshop on formal semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, June 14-16 2001).

Italian Society of Philosophy of Language: The pragmatic dimension in philosophy, linguistics and semiotics (Trieste, 16-18 September 2010).

11-13 September 2000 'Contrastive Meanings', conference organised by K. Jaszczolt, K. Turner at Cambridge University. (See detailed list of certificates for further details).

1 May – 1 June 2014: 6th Intercultural Pragmatics Conference, University of Malta.

Participated without notice in:

International Conference on Semantics and Pragmatics, Genoa 25-26 October 2003;

International Conference: The Multilingual Mediterranean, Genoa 13-15 May 2004;

Conference of the Italian Association of Philosophy of Language (with report, September 2013).

He participated with a communication at the conferences organized by Prof. Antonino Pennisi in Noto, Sept. 2015 and by the Italian Association of Philosophy of Language in Bologna, February 2017.

Organized the seminar :

James Higginbotham and the imperfective paradox

24th March 2025

University of Messina (Online presentation).

Participants Delfitto, Fiorin, Giorgi, Graci, Panizza, Pavone

International PhD students

Dr Capone is interested in linguistics/philosophy of language, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse analysis. He is a specialist in the English language and the analysis of English texts. He has published several articles and books on the philosophy of language and linguistics, where he has highlighted the connection between philosophy of language and linguistic concepts.

He also participated in a competition for second-level professorships for the class of Glottology and linguistics at the University of Salerno; the commission chaired by Tullio De Mauro expressed very flattering opinions on his publications.

Full Professors Sorin Stati and Riccardo Ambrosini of the Universities of Bologna and Pisa (competitive class Glottology and linguistics) have written very warm prefaces to two monographs by Dr Capone.

The intense scientific activity is demonstrated by a series of international publications on semantics, pragmatics and discourse analysis.

Dr. Capone has also published a collection of poetry of about 300 pages:

When the stars detach from the sky. (Rome, 2020, Albatros, Il Filo).

Educational activities

Dr Alessandro Capone teaches as an associate professor at the COSPECS department and in 2015-16, 2016/17 held the courses in general linguistics for the degree course in communication sciences and cognitive linguistics for the degree course in Tourism. He supervised several doctoral theses (Pennisi, Raffa). He was co-supervisor of degree theses. He is a member of the doctorate in Cognitive Sciences, directed by Prof. Antonino Pennisi. He has chaired several examination commissions. He has examined foreign students certifying their knowledge of the Italian language.

Administrative duties:

Competition commission for full professor positions, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2018-2019.

Participation in the commission for the evaluation of the service of university professors (salary increase), University of Messina, 2018.

Funding

He participated in the national Prin of Prof. Antonino Pennisi on Performativity (years 2017-2018).

He won the Research and Mobility grant from the University of Messina (2018-2019) (72,000 euros).

He obtained the Research and Mobility Grant (72000 euros) at the University of Messina for 2018-19.

He was selected at the University of Messina as an examiner in the selection for the awarding of the incentive provided by law 240 30 December 2010 (protocol n 63513, 6/9/2018).

He was selected as an external commissioner for the competition for full professorships in general linguistics at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice for the year 2019. He carried out this role.

He was selected as internal commissioner for the competition relating to the evaluation procedure for the call of n. 20 associate professors, pursuant to art. 24, paragraph 6, law 240/2010, announced with DR 776/2019 which includes, among other things, the call for associate professor for SC 11/D1 – SS.

Intellectual path

Dr Alessandro Capone began his intellectual journey with a thesis on the application of pragmatic theories to literary (narrative) texts, showing particular attention to narrative strategies based on the implicit. He then turned to dialogue and argumentation, demonstrating that modal adverbs are mostly used with a discursive function (e.g. the concessive function of 'obviously', 'certainly, 'really'). The discursive function of some modal expressions has also been studied with reference to inferential pragmatics. Dr Capone has been interested in the presuppositions introduced by the Italian clitic 'lo' and its modal function in discourse. According to Capone, the clitic introduces special presuppositions of the speaker/listener type (see also the current work of Istvan Kecskes on 'emergent presuppositions'). Dr. Capone, who has published four monographs, has also written articles in international journals on the semantics/pragmatics relationship, on the cancellability of explicatures, on the (so-called) Grice circle, on 'knowing how' and 'knowing that', on quotation, on the 'referential'/'attributive' distinction, on belief statements and explicatures, on indirect discourse and explicatures, on 'de se' belief statements, on indirect discourse and insults, on the tension between semantics and pragmatics, on Italian clitics in relation to presuppositions, modal effects, and the problems of belief statements. Especially in this last period, Prof. Capone has shown that presuppositions must be considered conversational phenomena. In particular, Dr. Capone asserts the importance of applying pragmatic ideas to problems of philosophy, not only as an author but also as the director of a series of pragmatic studies.

Dr. Capone has also written two articles on the subject of applying pragmatic theories to the law (the legal text).

Together with Marco Carapezza and Franco Lo Piparo, he organized the international conference:

First International conference on pragmatics and philosophy (Palermo May 202016).

Together with Fabrizio Macagno, he organized the Second International conference on pragmatics and Philosophy, University of Lisbon, 18-21 September 2018.

List of publications by Dr. Alessandro Capone

Monographs

The pragmatics of indirect reports. Cham, Springer, 2016. ( Reviews in International journal of language studies, Intercultural Pragmatics, Australian Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Linguistics, Lingua).

Pragmatics and Philosophy. Connections and ramifications. Cham, Springer, 2018. ( Reviews in Journal of Linguistics, Russian journal of Linguistics).

Proper names, quasi-proper names, de se thoughts and communication. 2025. Cham, Springer.