Commitment plays a crucial role in the stabilization of communication. While commitment
increases the acceptance of the message communicated, it comes with a price: the greater …

This study investigates the processing of presupposition in discourse through the Event-
Related Brain Potential technique. While theoretical linguistics has largely described the …

The paper is concerned with gossip communicated by headlines in a German celebrity
magazine. It takes its starting point in a philosophical controversy on the question whether …

The paper shows that implicit strategies for questionable contents are frequent in persuasive
texts, as compared to texts with other purposes. It proposes that the persuasive and …

The paper deals with the relation between linguistic presupposition and epistemic vigilance.
It proposes evolutionary and cognitive reasons why presuppositions should induce …

The growth of social media has brought with it a massive channel for spreading and
reinforcing stereotypes. This issue becomes critical when the affected targets are minority …

The paper provides novel theoretical and experimental perspectives on the functioning of
linguistic vagueness as an implicit persuasive strategy. It presents an operative definition of …

My dear guests, Welcome to the feast! My good friend Alessandro, who is the primus motor
of this undertaking (and certainly deserves the additional predicate of haud immobilis!) has …

This article addresses, experimentally, the question of how presuppositions are cognitively
processed and retrieved in discourse. In the proposed research, we have administered …

Implicits of content (typically, vague expressions and implicatures) and implicits of
responsibility (mainly presuppositions and topical/backgrounded information) are presented …