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Diana Mazzarella

Research Student Email: diana.mazzarella.11@ucl.ac.uk Principal Supervisor: Robyn Carston Subsidary Supervisor: Paula Rubio-Fernandez

Research Interests

Philosophy of language, theoretical and experimental pragmatics, the architecture of pragmatic processing, theory of mind and metarepresentation, figurative uses of language.

Research Projects

• Understanding Metaphor: Ad Hoc Concepts and Imagined Worlds (Principal investigator: Robyn Carston, Co-investigator: Catherine Wearing, Post-Doctoral Researcher: Paula Rubio Fernandez ) Leverhulme Trust funding. 2011-2014.

Dissertations

Mazzarella, D., 2011. Contenuto Semantico. Costituenti inarticolati e sottoderminazione semantica (Semantic content. Unarticulated constituents and semantic underdetermination). Laurea Magistrale in Scienze Filosofiche, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.

Mazzarella, D., 2009. Zebre e muli dipinti. Il problema delle scetticismo e le condizioni di chiusura della conoscenza (Zebras and Painted Mules. The Skeptical Problem and the Epistemic Closure Principle). Laurea Triennale in Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.

Publications

2013

Associative and inferential approaches to pragmatics: The state of the art of experimental investigation. Methode – Analytic Perspectives, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 172 – 194 (Special Issues on ‘New Perspectives for the Philosophy of Cognitive Science’)

2011 

Accessibility and Relevance: a fork in the road. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol.23, pp. 11-20.

Presentations (invited*, referred**)

2013

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. [**]

Mazzarella, D., Associative vs. Inferential Approaches to Pragmatics, 6th Interpreting for Relevance: Discourse and Translation, Warsaw, Poland, September 2012.  [**]

Teaching Experience/Responsibilities

Teaching assistant - ‘Pragmatic Theory’ course at UCL- October 2012-December 2012.

Teaching assistant - ‘Pragmatics and Cognition’ course at UCL- January 2013 - March 2013.

Organising/Convening Pragmatics Reading group, UCL. (September 2012 – present)

Organizing Committee: 1st UCL Graduate Conference in Linguistics, London, UK, November 2013.