[**]=refereed [*]=invited
2025
Mazzarella, D. More than words: The role of attitude in verbal irony. Paris Valence 2025, Paris, France, June 2025. [*]
Heintz, C. & Mazzarella, D. The literalist mode of interpretation. IPRA 2025, Brisbane, Australia, July 2025. [**]
Mazzarella, D. & Pouscoulous, N. Vigilance: An unexpected factor in pragmatic development. The Swiss Epistemic Trust Conference "The origins of trust", Neuchâtel, Switzerland, June 2025. [*]
Heintz, C. & Mazzarella, D. The literalist mode of interpretation. Relevance Researchers’ Network Conference [online], May 2025. [**]
Vaccargiu, E. & Mazzarella, D. Redescribing early pragmatics: A new look at hidden authorship. Relevance Researchers’ Network Conference [online], May 2025. [**]
Mazzarella, D. Understanding irony (mis)understanding. Discomatix [online], May 2025. [*]
Mazzarella, D. Epistemic vigilance at play: Navigating presupposition and assertion, UNED, Madrid, Spain, January 2025. [*]
Vaccargiu, E. & Mazzarella, D. Redescribing early pragmatics. BCCCD 2025, Budapest, Hungary, January 2025. [**]
Poster presentations:
Schindler, S., Bangerter, A., Clément, F., Mansfield, J. & Mazzarella, D. Investigating listener responses and alignment in triadic storytelling. LingCologne 2025, Cologne, Germany, May 2025. [**]
Giunta, G., Pouscoulous, N & Mazzarella, D. Challenging misinformation: The role of linguistic encoding. BCCCD 2025, Budapest, Hungary, January 2025. [**]
Treichel, N., Pouscoulous, N., Perovic, A. & Mazzarella, D. Understanding deception: Epistemic vigilance in individuals with Williams syndrome. BCCCD 2025, Budapest, Hungary, January 2025. [**]
Milosavljevic, A. & Mazzarella, D. Attitude understanding and irony development: Methodological challenges. BCCCD 2025, Budapest, Hungary, January 2025. [**]
Ryser, M. & Mazzarella, D. New perspectives on joint commitment in pretend play. BCCCD 2025, Budapest, Hungary, January 2025. [**]
Aguirre, M., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D. The emergence of children's vigilance towards others' gullibility: A selective trust task. BCCCD 2025, Budapest, Hungary, January 2025. [**]
2024
Giunta, G., Mazzarella, D. & Domaneschi, F. Presupposition and information acceptance. Disentangling the effects of linguistic encoding and at-issueness. Xprag.it 2024, Venice, Italy. [**]
Mazzarella, D. Be vigilant! The understanding of misinformation and irony in typical and atypical populations. Journée de Linguistique Suisse, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, June 2024. [**]
Mazzarella, D. & Pouscoulos, N. Kidding kids: the role of epistemic vigilance in irony development. Investigating children's irony comprehension. Current trends, challenges, and perspectives, Leipzig University, Germany, June 2024. [*]
Pozzi, M. & Mazzarella, D. Believe me, I saw it! Speaker's responsibility for evidential claims. Pragmasophia 2024, Messina, Italy, June 2024. [**]
Milosavljevic, A., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D. Pragmatics meets epistemic vigilance: The case of irony. The Developing Communicator Conference 2024, Oslo, Norway, May 2024. [**]
Mazzarella, D. Understanding irony (mis)understanding. Postgraduate workshop in pragmatics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, March 2024. [*]
Mazzarella, D. "I didn't mean to suggest anything like that!": Deniability and context reconstruction. Semantics, Pragmatics & Philosophy (SPP) Group Meeting, University of Cambridge, online, February 2024. [*]
Aguirre, M., Castelain, T., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D. Shall I trust you? Children's vigilance towards others' gullibility. BCCCD 2024, Budapest, Hungary, January 2024. [**]
Poster presentations:
Vaccargiu, E. & Mazzarella, D. 'Redescribing' early pragmatics. Xprag.it 2024, Venice, Italy. [**]
Bersier, B., Mazzarella, D. & Zufferey, S. How do we perceive criticism in French? An experimental investigation. Xprag.it 2024, Venice, Italy. [**]
Aguirre, M., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D. The ontogeny of children's vigilance towards others' gullibility. Xprag.it 2024, Venice, Italy. [**]
Milosavljevic, A., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D. Do vigilance cues affect the comprehension and processing of irony? Xprag.it 2024, Venice, Italy. [**]
Treichel, N., Pouscoulous, N., Perovic, A. & Mazzarella, D. Understanding deception: Epistemic vigilance in individuals with Williams syndrome. Xprag.it 2024, Venice, Italy. [**]
Pozzi, M. & Mazzarella, D. Believe me, I saw it! Speaker's responsibility for evidential claims. Xprag.it 2024, Venice, Italy. [**]
Mazzarella, D. & Pouscoulous, N. Kidding kids: Irony development and epistemic vigilance. Journée de Linguistique Suisse, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, June 2024. [**]
Milosavljevic, A., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D. The development of irony comprehension: Examining the role of epistemic vigilance. Journée de Linguistique Suisse, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, June 2024. [**]
Ryser, M. & Mazzarella, D. Pretend play and communication. Journée de Linguistique Suisse, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, June 2024. [**]
Treichel, N., Pouscoulous, N., Perovic, A. & Mazzarella, D. Vigilance towards deception in individuals with Williams syndrome. Journée de Linguistique Suisse, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, June 2024. [**]
Vaccargiu, E. & Mazzarella, D. 'Redescribing' early pragmatics: A renewed post-Gricean perspective. IGG49 - Preconference Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Pragmatics, IUSS Pavia, Italy, February 2024. [**]
Giunta, G., Mazzarella, D. & Domaneschi, F. Persuasive presuppositions? IGG49 - Preconference Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Pragmatics, IUSS Pavia, Italy, February 2024. [**]
Milosavljevic, A., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D. The development of irony comprehension: Examining the role of epistemic vigilance. BCCCD 2024, Budapest, Hungary, January 2024. [**]
Aguirre, M., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D. Tracking others' epistemic vigilance: Do children trust vigilant informants over gullible ones? BCCCD 2024, Budapest, Hungary, January 2024. [**]
2023
Giunta, G., Mazzarella, D, Domaneschi, F. Presupposition and persuasion. Xprag.ch 2023, Fribourg, Switzerland, November 2023. [*]
Milosavljevic, A., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D. Irony and epistemic vigilance. Xprag.ch 2023, Fribourg, Switzerland, November 2023. [*]
Aguirre, M., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D. Tracking others’ epistemic vigilance: do children trust vigilant informants more than gullible ones? Xprag.ch 2023, Fribourg, Switzerland, November 2023. [*]
Pozzi, M., Bangerter, A. & Mazzarella, D. Does lexical coordination affect epistemic and interpersonal trust? The role of conceptual pacts. Xprag.ch 2023, Fribourg, Switzerland, November 2023. [*]
Mazzarella, D. Choosing words, saving faces. Criticisms and the role of social context. University of Osnabrück, Germany, September 2023. [*]
*Mazzarella, D. Be vigilant! A journey into the pragmatics of trust. XPRAG X, Paris, France, September 2023. [*]
Pozzi, M., Bangerter, A. & Mazzarella, D. Does lexical coordination affect epistemic and interpersonal trust? XPRAG X, Paris, France, September 2023. [**]
Pozzi, M., Bangerter, A. & Mazzarella, D. Does lexical coordination affect epistemic and interpersonal trust? The role of conceptual pacts. IPRA 2023, Brussels, Belgium, July 2023. [**]
Mazzarella, D. & Pozzi, M. Speaker trustworthiness: Shall confidence match evidence? The role of conceptual pacts. IPRA 2023, Brussels, Belgium, July 2023. [**]
Milosavljevic, A., Pouscoulous, N, Castelain, T. & Mazzarella, D. When do children (really) start understanding irony? IPRA 2023, Brussels, Belgium, July 2023. [**]
Aguirre, M. Castelain, T., Pouscoulous, N & Mazzarella, D. The emergence of second-order epistemic vigilance and its developmental trajectory. IPRA 2023, Brussels, Belgium, July 2023. [**]
Bersier, B., S. Zufferey, Mazzarella, D., Schwab. An experimental approach to the production of criticisms and replies to criticisms in a work environment. IPRA 2023, Brussels, Belgium, July 2023. [**]
Mazzarella, D. Understanding irony (mis)understanding. The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland, June 2023. [*]
Milosavljevic, A., Pouscoulous, N., Castelain, T. & Mazzarella, D. The development of irony understanding: What is the role of epistemic vigilance? Journée BeNeFri, Bern, Switzerland, June 2023. [*]
Mazzarella, D. Speaker commitment, misinformation and evidential warrant. The Normativity of Joint Actions, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, June 2023. [*]
Mazzarella, D. Watch what you say (and how you say it)! Pragmatic meanings and speaker accountability. April 2023. Implicit Manipulation in Public Discourse: Quantitative and Qualitative approaches, RomaTre University, Italy, April 2023. [*]
Poster Presentations:
Mazzarella, D., Aguirre, M., Castelain, T., Pouscoulous, N. Do children trust vigilant informants over gullible ones? BUCLD 2023, Boston, USA, November 2023. [**]
Aguirre, M., Pouscoulous, N., & Mazzarella, D. The ontogeny of second-order epistemic vigilance. XPRAG X, Paris, France, September 2023. [**]
Milosavljevic, A., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D. Developing irony: Dissociative attitude and epistemic vigilance. XPRAG X, Paris, France, September 2023. [**]
Bersier, B., S. Zufferey, Mazzarella, D., Schwab. Pragmatic of speech acts: An experimental approach to the produc- tion of criticisms and their replies in a work environment. XPRAG X, Paris, France, September 2023. [**]
Milosavljevic, A., Pouscoulous, N, Castelain, T. & Mazzarella, D. When do children (really) start understanding irony? BCCCD, Budapest, Hungary, January 2023. [**]
2022
Mazzarella, D. Ironic speakers, vigilant hearers. The Many Faces of Normativity: An Interdisciplinary Speaker Series, University of Zurich, Switzerland, October 2022. [*]
Pozzi, M. & Mazzarella, D. Speaker trustworthiness: Calibrating confidence with evidence. Experimental Philosophy Departmental Workshop, University of Zurich, October, 2022. [*]
Vaccargiu, E. & Mazzarella, D. The burden of communication: Is there a real ‘Developmental Dilemma’?. Relevance Researchers’ Network Conference 2022, online, October 2022. [**]
Mazzarella, D. & Pouscoulous, N. Ironic speakers, vigilant hearers. Relevance Researchers’ Network Conference 2022, online, October 2022. [**]
Vaccargiu, E. & Mazzarella, D. The burden of communication: Is there a real ‘Developmental Dilemma’? 6th Philosophy of Language and Mind Conference, Warsaw, Poland, September 2022. [**]
Mazzaggio, G., Zappoli, A. & Mazzarella, D. The processing of irony across the lifespan. XPRAG 2022, Pavia, Italy, September 2022. [**]
Pozzi, M., & Mazzarella, D. Speaker reliability: calibrating confidence with evidence. (May 2022). Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 2, University of Pennsylvania, USA, May 2022. [**]
Mazzarella, D. The boundaries of plausible deniability. A pragmatic analysis. Seminario Didattico Università San Raffaele, Milano, Italy, May 2022. [*]
Mazzarella, D. & Pouscoulous, N. Ironic speakers, vigilant children. Lecture series: The future of pragmatics, University of Oslo, online, May 2022. [*]
Milosavljevic, A., Castelain, T., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D. Second-order epistemic vigilance as a key to unraveling the developmental puzzle of irony. 6th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL6), Poznan, Poland, April 2022. [**]
Mazzarella, D. Models of communication: Insights from developmental psychology, Colloque de recherche de l’Institut de philosophie, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, April 2022. [*]
Pozzi, M., & Mazzarella, D. Speaker reliability: calibrating confidence with evidence. SWiss English Language and Linguistics (SWELL) 2022, University of Basel, Switzerland, February 2022. [**]
2021
Mazzarella, D. & Vaccargiu, E. Verbal understanding: A matter of mind-reading? SIFA 2021, Noto, Italy, September 2021. [**]
Mazzarella, D. ‘I didn’t mean that!’: Plausible deniability and context re-construction. Workshop ‘Plausible deniability in the Post-Truth Era’, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, September 2021. [*]
Mazzarella, D. & Noveck, I. Pragmatic inference and mind-reading. IPRA 2021, Winthertur, Switzerland, June 2021. [**]
Poster Presentations:
Mazzarella, D. ‘I didn’t mean that!’: Plausible deniability and context re-construction. LMC Workshop 'MK40: Common Knowledge, Common Ground, and Context in Communication, London, UK, June 2021.[**]
Milosavljevic, A., Castelain, T., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D. The effect of second-order epistemic vigilance on irony comprehension. 4th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference- XPRAG.it, Turin, Italy, July 2021. [**]
Pozzi, M. & Mazzarella, D. The effect of coordination on epistemic and interpersonal trust. 4th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference, Turin, Italy, July 2021. [**]
Mazzaggio, de Bettignies & Mazzarella. Does irony understanding decline with age? DUCOG 2021, online event.[**]
2020
Mazzarella, D. Pragmatic development and epistemic vigilance. Journées de Linguistique Suisse, Fribourg, Switzerland, November 2020.[**]
Mazzarella, D. The interpretation of negated antonyms: adjectival polarity and face-management. LingLunch, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Paris [videoconference], France, May, 2020.[*]
Gotzner, N. & Mazzarella, D. The interpretation of negated adjectives: Dissociating polarity ad face-threatening potential, DegPol 2020, Berlin, Germany, March 2020.[*]
Mazzarella D. Speaker commitment and levels of meaning. UCL Graduate Seminar Series on Pragmatics, London, United Kingdom, February 2020. [*]
2019
Hall, A. & Mazzarella, D. Pragmatics, levels of meaning and speaker’s commitment, IX SEFA (Spanish Society of Analytic Philosophy), Valencia, Spain, November 2019. [**]
Mazzarella, D. Pragmatics, levels of meaning and speaker commitment. Colloque de recherche de l’Institut de philosophie, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, November, 2019. [*]
Hall, A. & Mazzarella, D. Pragmatics, levels of meaning, and speaker commitment. Experimental Philosophy Conference, Bern, Switzerland, September 2019.[**]
Gotzner, N. & Mazzarella, D. Politeness and negative strengthening. Xprag.it 2019, Cagliari, Italy, September 2019. [**]
Mazzarella, D. The interface between pragmatics and epistemic vigilance. CEU COgnitive Science Departemental Colloquium, Budapest, Hungary, June 2019. [*]
Gotzner, N. & Mazzarella, D. Politeness and negative strengthening. Social Meaning Workshop, Berlin, Germany, March 2019. [**]
Gotzner, N. & Mazzarella, D. Politeness and negative strengthening. LogPrag Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, January 2019. [*]
Poster presentations:
Gotzner, N. & Mazzarella, D. Politeness and negative strengthening. Xprag 2019, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, June 2019. [**]
2018
Domaneschi, F. & Mazzarella, D. Ad hoc presupposition construction. AISC 2018, Pavia, Italy, December 2018. [**]
Mazzarella, D. Commitment and deniability: A pragmatic perspective. ESPP 2018, Rijeka, Croatia, September 2018.[**]
Mazzarella, D. & Domaneschi, F. Presuppositional effects and ostensive-inferential communication. ESPP 2018, Rijeka, Croatia, September 2018. [**]
Mazzarella, D., Reinecke, R., Noveck, I., & Mercier, H. Pragmatic cues of speaker commitment: An experimental investigation. Xprag.it 2018, Pavia, Italy, June 2018. [**]
Mazzarella, D., Reinecke, R., Noveck, I., & Mercier, H. Pragmatic cues of speaker commitment: An experimental investigation. VIII International Symposium on intercultural, cognitive and social pragmatics (EPICS VIII), Sevilla, May 2018. [**]
Mazzarella, D. & Domaneschi, F. Presuppositional effects and ostensive-inferential communication. Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, Germany, April 2018.
Mazzarella, D., Reinecke, R., Noveck, I., & Mercier, H. Implicit communication and reputation management, Convegno della Società di Filosofia del Linguaggio 2018, Milan, Italy, January 2018. [**]
Poster presentations:
Mazzarella, D., Reinecke, R., Noveck, I., & Mercier, H. Saying, presupposing, implicating: How pragmatics modulate commitment. X Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science: Communication, Pragmatics and Theory of Mind. Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2018. [**]
2017
Mazzarella, D., Reinecke, R., Noveck, I., & Mercier, H. Implicating, asserting and presupposing: The cost of commitment violation, Workshop: Assertions, Norms and Effects, Trieste, Italy, November 2017. [**]
Mazzarella, D. "Some people hated your talk": Speaker's meaning and listener's beliefs. Workshop on Social meaning, Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, August 2017. [*]
Poster presentations:
Mazzarella, D., Trouche, E., Mercier, H. & Noveck, I. Believing what you’re told: Politeness and scalar inferences. Communication, Reasoning and Social Epistemology, Berlin, Germany, July 2017.[**]
Mazzarella, D., Trouche, E., Mercier, H. & Noveck, I. Believing what you’re told: Politeness and scalar inferences. XPRAG 2017, Cologne, Germany, June 2017. [**]
2016
Mazzarella, D., Trouche, E., Mercier, H. & Noveck, I. Believing what you’re told: Politeness and scalar inferences. ESPP 2016, St Andrews, United Kingdom, August 2016.[**]
Mazzarella, D. Competenze pragmatiche e vigilanza epistemica: Una prospettiva rilevantista.Workshop: Modelli della Mente, Milan, Italy, May 2016. [*]
Mazzarella, D., Trouche, E., Mercier, H. & Noveck, I. Believing what you’re told: Politeness and scalar inferences.Seminari di Filosofia del Linguaggio e della Mente, Milan, Italy, April 2016. [*]
Mazzarella, D. & Pouscoulous, N. Becoming a competent comprehender: The interaction between pragmatics and epistemic vigilance in development. Workshop: The pragmatics of communication from infancy to early language, Budapest, Hungary, January 2016. [*]
Poster Presentations:
Mazzarella, D., Trouche, E., Mercier, H. & Noveck, I. Believing what you’re told: Politeness and scalar inferences. AMLAP 2016, Bilbao, Spain, September 2016. [**]
Mazzarella, D. & Pouscoulous, N. Becoming a competent comprehender: The interaction between pragmatics and epistemic vigilance in development. ESPP 2016, St Andrews, United Kingdom, August 2016.[**]
Mazzarella, D., Trouche, E., Mercier, H. & Noveck, I. Believing what you’re told: Politeness and scalar inferences. CEU Summer School - Understanding Communication and Understanding Minds: The role of metarepresentations, Budapest, Hungary, June 2016. [**]
Mazzarella, D. & Pouscoulous, N. Becoming a competent comprehender: The interaction between pragmatics and epistemic vigilance in development. XPrag Workshop: The role of pragmatic factors in child language processing, Berlin, Germany, January 2016.[**]
2015
Mazzarella, D. Trusting what you are told: Politeness and scalar inferences. Pragmatics and Testimony Workshop, Trieste, Italy, November 2015.[**]
Mazzarella, D. Pragmatics, interpretative strategies and epistemic vigilance, PragLab Research Colloquium in Linguistics, Fribourg, Switzerland, May 2015. [*]
Mazzarella, D. Pragmatics, interpretative strategies and epistemic vigilance, Sèminaire de Recherche en Linguistique, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2015. [*]
Poster Presentations:
Mazzarella, D., Inferential pragmatics and epistemic vigilance: a developmental perspective, BCCCD15, Budapest, Hungary, January 2015. [**]
2014
Mazzarella, D., Politeness, relevance and scalar inferences, AMPRA 2014, Los Angeles, October 2014. [**]
Mazzarella, D., Pragmatics and epistemic vigilance, Philosophy of Language and Linguistics 2014, Dubrovnik, September 2014. [*]
Mazzarella, D., Inferential pragmatics and the role of epistemic vigilance, Pragmatic Inference Workshop, London, July 2014. [*]
Mazzarella, D., Politeness, relevance and scalar inferences,6th Intercultural Pragmatics Conference, Malta, May 2014.[**][book of abstracts]
Mazzarella,D., Pragmatics and Epistemic Vigilance, Beyond Words 2 - New Developments in Pragmatics, Leipzig, Germany, May 2014. [**][program and abstracts]
2013
Mazzarella, D., ‘Optimal relevance’ as a pragmatic criterion: The role of epistemic vigilance, 3rd SIFA Graduate Conference “Language, Logic and Mind”, Cagliari, Italy, September 2013. [**][book of abstracts]
Mazzarella, D., Do we need inferences in pragmatics? Challenges from a unified associative account of pragmatic processes, 4th International Conference on Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models, Brussels, Belgium, September 2013. [**] [book of abstracts]
Mazzarella, D., ‘Optimal relevance’ as a pragmatic criterion: The role of epistemic vigilance, UCL Linguistics PhD Day, London, UK, May 2013. [*]
2012
Mazzarella, D., On-line pragmatic processing: associative vs. inferential approaches, 1st Genoa Workshop on Cognitive Linguistics, Genoa, Italy, December 2012. [*]
Mazzarella, D., Where accessibility-based approaches to pragmatics fall short, Arché/CSMN Graduate Conference, Oslo, Norway, November 2012. [**] (Discussant: Francois Recanati)
Mazzarella, D., Associative vs. Inferential Approaches to Pragmatics, 6th Interpreting forRelevance: Discourse and Translation, Warsaw, Poland, September 2012. [**]