[**]=refereed [*]=invited, presenter
Upcoming
Mazzarella, D. tba, ESPP 2026, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 2026.
Chakravorty, T., Bangerter, A. Bshary, R. & Mazzarella, D. Investigating the Role of Language on Human Cooperation Using Naturalistic Games. Incentivized Experiments on Normative Systems, Kraków, Poland. May 2026 [*]
2026
Andersen, A. & Mazzarella, D. "Networked deniability": How denials operate in digital communication. DARLING Kick-off workshop, Fribourg, Switzerland, April 2026. [*]
Mazzarella, D. Understanding irony: Is it child's play? MIDI (Multimodality, Interaction & Discourse) meetings, KU Leuven, [online], March 2026. [*]
Mazzarella et al. SNSF Eccellenza Grant "Pragmatics meets epistemic vigilance: explaining the development of irony understanding" Taking stock: Objectives, key findings, and open questions. Understanding irony: Pragmatic inference and social cognition, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, February 2026.
Poster presentations
Flick, S., Bangerter, A., Clément, F., Mansfield, J. & Mazzarella, D. Storytelling and social cohesion: How humans tell stories and build bonds. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA) 2026 Conference, Leiden, Netherlands, April 2026. [**]
Giunta, G., Tréichel, N., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D. Understanding the ironical attitude: A developmental perspective. BCCCD 2026, CEU, Hungary, January 2026. [**]
2025
Mazzarella, D., Giunta, G., Milosavljevic, A., Treichel, N. & Pouscoulous, N. Kidding kids: The development of irony understanding, Xprag.ch: Experimental Pragmatics in Switzerland Conference 2025, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, November 2025. [*]
Milosavljevic A., Pouscoulous, N & Mazzarella, D. Vigilance cues affect irony understanding, Xprag.ch: Experimental Pragmatics in Switzerland Conference 2025, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, November, 2025. [*]
Giunta, G., Pouscoulous, N & Mazzarella, D. The cognitive costs of challenging misinformation in childhood, Xprag.ch: Experimental Pragmatics in Switzerland Conference 2025, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, November, 2025. [*]
Aguirre, M., Pouscoulous, N., Mazzarella, D. Who trusts whom? Children's sensitivity to orhers' vigilance. The 11th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025), University of Cambridge, UK. [**]
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:
Milosavljevic, A., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D., Vigilance cues affect irony understanding, The 11th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025), University of Cambridge, UK. [**]
Treichel N., Pouscoulous, N., Mazzarella, D., Understanding the ironical attitude: A developmental perspective. The 11th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025), University of Cambridge, UK. [**]
Antille, M., Heintz, C. & Mazzarella, D. Literal meaning as a focal point: Pragmatic inference and deniability. The 11th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025), University of Cambridge, UK. [**]
Talia, A., Kling, L., Zufferey, S. Taubner, S. & Mazzarella, D. Attachment theory as a framework for understanding individual differences in pragmatics: Experimental evidence on adults’ scalar implicature derivation and infants’ information-seeking.The 11th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025), University of Cambridge, UK. [**]
Mazzarella, D., Talia, A. & Zufferey, S. Mapping individual differences in pragmatic abilities: A look towards the future. The 11th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025), University of Cambridge, UK. [**]
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. [*]
Milosavljevic,A., Pouscoulous, N & Mazzarella, D. Irony comprehension and epistemic vigilance: Developmental insights, 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, September 2024. [**]
Bersier, B., Mazzarella, D. & Zufferey, S. How do we perceive criticism in French? An experimental investigation. Xprag.it 2024, Venice, Italy, September 2024 [**]
Aguirre, M., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D. The ontogeny of children's vigilance towards others' gullibility. Xprag.it 2024, Venice, Italy., September 2024 [**]
Milosavljevic, A., Pouscoulous, N. & Mazzarella, D. Do vigilance cues affect the comprehension and processing of irony? Xprag.it 2024, Venice, Italy, September 2024. [**]
Treichel, N., Pouscoulous, N., Perovic, A. & Mazzarella, D. Understanding deception: Epistemic vigilance in individuals with Williams syndrome. Xprag.it 2024, Venice, Italy, September 2024. [**]
Pozzi, M. & Mazzarella, D. Believe me, I saw it! Speaker's responsibility for evidential claims. Xprag.it 2024, Venice, Italy, September 2024. [**]
Treichel N., Pouscoulous, N., Perovic, A., Mazzarella, D. Vigilance towards deception in individuals with Williams syndrome. Annual conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP), Grenoble, France, July 2024. [**]
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. [**]