Il vero e il falso dell'ironia

Il tema del vero/falso è centrale nelle discussioni sull’ironia: la forma prototipica dell’ironia, l’antifrasi, consiste infatti nel dire il contrario di ciò che si intende comunicare. In questo saggio si illustreranno forme alternative di espressione dell'ironia, mettendo in discussione la centralità del concetto di verità/falsità per una comprensione dell'ironia in tutte le sue manifestazion

Lecture Notes on Irony and Satire

The two studies included in the volume are meant to explore the complexities of irony and satire from a linguistic, pragmatic and cognitive point of view

Lexical Complexity: Theoretical Assessment and translational perspectives

Raccolta di saggi sul tema della complessità lessicale da più prospettive teoriche

Microaggression or misunderstanding? Implicatures, inferences and accountability

This paper contributes a pragmatic perspective to the complex question of how to classify microaggressions that are committed via linguistic means. Given that microaggressions are often communicated implicitly, two key questions arise: (i) on what linguistic grounds is a recipient licensed to infer that a microaggression has been committed, and (ii) to what extent can a speaker claim they have been misunderstood and hence deny responsibility for having committed a microaggression? These questions are addressed through a discussion of the nature of implicature, inferences and accountability, highlighting that a key challenge lies in the fact that microaggressive content is typically not part of the representational content of what is achieved in interaction