Viviana Masia
List of John Benjamins publications in which Viviana Masia is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0929-0907 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9943
Titles
The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication
Viviana Masia
Becoming effective hunters of manipulative communicative moves is far from an easy capacity to develop. This book aims at offering a guide to the most dangerous traps of deceptive language as triggered by implicit communication strategies such as presupposition, implicature, topicalization and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 322] 2021. xvi, 220 pp. + index
Sociobiological Bases of Information Structure
Viviana Masia
The book tackles the sociobiological bases of Information Structure (IS) inquiring both its evidential and neurobiological underpinnings in human communication. Its purpose is to delve into the epistemic and neurocognitive rationales behind the realization of informational hierarchies in a sentence. read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 9] 2017. xxi, 193 pp.
2024 The evidential dimension of implicitly conveyed disagreement in political debates Pragmatic perspectives on disagreement, Schumann, Jennifer and Steve Oswald (eds.), pp. 66–88 | Article
The idea that manipulation relies more heavily on implicit than on explicit communication has been the plank of several earlier and recent debates on argumentation and speaker roles in interactions. The present contribution will inquire into the selective nature of the use of implicit… read more
2023 Recalling presupposed information: Evidence from the online processing of presuppositions in political tweets Pragmatics & Cognition 30:1, pp. 92–119 | Article
This article addresses, experimentally, the question of how presuppositions are cognitively processed and retrieved in discourse. In the proposed research, we have administered tweets produced by Italian politicians to native speakers so as to assess how easily they could retrieve the… read more
2022 Remarks on information structure marking asymmetries: The epistemological view on the micropragmatic profile of utterances When Data Challenges Theory: Unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure, Garassino, Davide and Daniel Jacob (eds.), pp. 57–90 | Chapter
Asymmetries in topic-focus marking have extensively been discussed in recent typological contention, with a view to finding an interlinguistically viable definition of information structure units (Lazard 1994, Zimmermann & Onea 2011, Matić & Wedgwood 2013). In this paper I will address Zimmermann &… read more
2017 A sociobiological account of indirect speech Interaction Studies 18:1, pp. 142–160 | Article
Indirect speech is a remarkable trait of human communication. The present paper tackles the sociobiological underpinnings of communicative indirectness discussing both socio-interactional and cognitive rationales behind its manifestation in discourse. From a social perspective, the use of… read more