Diana Mazzarella
List of John Benjamins publications in which Diana Mazzarella is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0929-0907 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9943
2026 Children’s vigilance towards others’ gullibility Investigating Children’s Irony Comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives, Fuchs-Kreiß, Julia (ed.), pp. 208–228 | Article
Humans are endowed with a suite of cognitive mechanisms that enable them to mitigate the risk of misinformation and underlie their epistemic vigilance. When direct access to the initial source of information is unavailable, individuals often rely on the vigilance of others to acquire beliefs.… read more
2026 Kidding kids: The role of epistemic vigilance in irony development Investigating Children’s Irony Comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives, Fuchs-Kreiß, Julia (ed.), pp. 99–120 | Article
Young children are notoriously bad at understanding ironical statements, with irony comprehension emerging around the age of 6 and appearing resistant to task manipulation. What can explain this late emergence? We propose that children’s epistemic vigilance is a pivotal component of the… read more
2026 Attitude understanding and irony development: Methodological challenges Investigating Children’s Irony Comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives, Fuchs-Kreiß, Julia (ed.), pp. 12–33 | Article
A distinctive feature of verbal irony is the expression of a dissociative attitude. Although attitude understanding represents a key element of irony comprehension and its development, the experimental research in this area remains fragmented and often yields mixed findings. This paper reviews… read more
2025 “Troubles-talk”: How do we criticize and reply to criticisms in French? An experimental investigation Pragmatics & Cognition 32:2, pp. 382–408 | Article
In everyday communication, criticisms are important and commonly occurring face-threatening acts. In this paper, we investigate the way people deal with criticisms by conducting two experiments in French involving the production of, and response to, criticisms using a written Discourse… read more
2023 Verbal irony and the implicitness of the echo: The processing of young and older adults Pragmatics & Cognition 30:2, pp. 412–443 | Article
Speakers can express a critical, dissociative attitude by being ironic. According to the Echoic account of verbal irony, this attitude targets a proposition that echoes a thought attributed to someone other than the speaker herself at the present time. This study investigated the role of echo in… read more
2014 Is inference necessary to pragmatics? New Perspectives on Utterance Interpretation and Implicit Contents, Rossi, Daniela and Nicolas Ruytenbeek (eds.), pp. 71–95 | Article
The assumption that pragmatic processes are inferential is standardly held by Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatic theories. Recently, however, it has been challenged by accessibility-based approaches to pragmatics. Recanati (2002, 2004) proposes that primary pragmatic processes (i.e. processes that… read more