Marco Mazzone
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marco Mazzone is involved.
Articles
2025 Communicative intentions: Private or public? The issue of the speaker’s vs. hearer’s authority Pragmatics & Cognition 32:2, pp. 287–310 | Article
Communicative intentions, conceived as internal mental states, are subject to an objection already raised by Wittgenstein: since they are not accessible to hearers, they cannot play an explanatory role in utterance understanding. Such an objection has led Sbisà (2001/2023a) and Hansen &… read more
2017 Chapter 12. Why don’t you tell it explicitly? Personal/subpersonal accounts of implicitness Implicitness: From lexis to discourse, Cap, Piotr and Marta Dynel (eds.), pp. 259–280 | Chapter
Why do we use implicitness as a communicative strategy? In this chapter I suggest that the reason has to do – among other things – with the structure of memory, on the one hand, and the human ability to construct contextually shared chains of goals, on the other. I also propose that by framing… read more
2011 Colors and color adjectives in the cortex New Directions in Colour Studies, Biggam, Carole P., Carole Hough, Christian Kay and David R. Simmons (eds.), pp. 415–428 | Article
An important question in studies on color perception in humans concerns the extent to which lexical items related to colors affect color concepts. In the hope of shedding additional light on this longstanding debate, we propose a computational model of the convergence between visual and linguistic… read more