Carla Bazzanella
List of John Benjamins publications in which Carla Bazzanella is involved.
2014 Grammar, interaction, and context: Unmarked and marked uses of the first person
plural in Italian Constructing Collectivity: 'We' across languages and contexts, Pavlidou, Theodossia-Soula (ed.), pp. 83–104 | Article
The referential flexibility of the first person plural allows for a range of references, starting from the ‘canonical’ use (which usually includes speaker and addressee) to other, various uses, strictly depending on context and cotext. This multiple, potential reference produces indeterminacy,… read more
2012 Linguistic synaesthesia, perceptual synaesthesia, and the interaction between multiple sensory modalities Pragmatics & Cognition 20:1, pp. 135–167 | Article
Recent studies on cortical processing of sensory information highlight the importance of multisensory integration, and define precise rules governing reciprocal influences between inputs of different sensory modalities. We propose that psychophysical interactions between different types of sensory… read more
2011 Indeterminacy in dialogue Language and Dialogue 1:1, pp. 21–43 | Article
Indeterminacy in language is commonly resorted to for a variety of reasons, in several different forms. After touching on the fuzzy boundaries of indeterminacy with respect to vagueness and ambiguity, several linguistic devices (among which, unexpectedly, also cardinal numbers) are introduced and… read more
2010 Contextual constraints in CMC narratives Narrative Revisited: Telling a story in the age of new media, Hoffmann, Christian R. (ed.), pp. 19–37 | Article
2007 The attenuating conditional: Context, appropriateness and interaction Context and Appropriateness: Micro meets macro, Fetzer, Anita (ed.), pp. 203–233 | Article
The attenuative reading of the conditional form (condatt) in Italian and French illustrates the multifunctionality of linguistic structures and the necessity of analyzing them in their synergies with relevant contextual parameters. The condatt allows the speaker to allude to the existence of… read more
2004 Emotions, language, and context Emotion in Dialogic Interaction: Advances in the complex, Weigand, Edda (ed.), pp. 55–72 | Article
1999 Coherence and Misunderstanding in Everyday Conversations Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to create it and how to describe it, Bublitz, Wolfram, Uta Lenk and Eija Ventola (eds.), pp. 175–188 | Article