Alessandro Capone

Biographic Data

ID486137
NAMEAlessandro Capone
GIVEN NAMESAlessandro
FAMILY NAMECapone
SIGNATURECAPONE A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Messina
ORCID0000-0001-6584-9767
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS74
TOTAL CITATIONS207
AUTHOR COUNT66
EDITOR COUNT8
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX9

  • Introductory notes

    Alessandro CaponeARTICLEIntercultural Pragmatics2025

  • Istvan Kecskes, Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York, affectionate friend and mentor

    Alessandro CaponeARTICLEIntercultural Pragmatics2025References: 1

    Article Istvan Kecskes, Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York, affectionate friend and mentor was published on March 1, 2025 in the journal Intercultural Pragmatics (volume 22, issue 1)

  • Quasi-proper names, linguistic use, and contextuality

    Alessandro CaponeARTICLEIntercultural Pragmatics2025References: 4

    In this paper, I discuss expressions such as ‘Dad’, ‘Mum’, ‘Grandpa’, etc., which are called ‘quasi-proper names’. These expressions can be used both to refer to a thing or person in an assertion in which a predicate is assigned to the referent expressed by the quasi-proper-name and to call somebody in particular (John!). In so far as they are indexical expressions, they are even more directly referential than proper names and guarantee discourse…

  • What did we learn from Istvan Kecskes? Introductory notes

    Alessandro CaponeARTICLEIntercultural Pragmatics2025References: 5

    In this article, I sum up Kecskes’ views on intercultural pragmatics, English as a lingua franca, and the socio-cognitive approach to language and communication. I try to present a coherent picture of his views by adding my own comments and considerations. I focus on the main concept of intercultural communication, the speaker’s egocentrism and salience. I also address the issue of a priori and emergent intentions. I distinguish between communal …

  • Thematic issue in pragmatics and philosophy (Tipp)

    Alessandro CaponeARTICLEIntercultural Pragmatics2025

  • Emperor Julian, Paul of Tarsus, and the Octopus

    Open AccessAlessandro CaponeARTICLEReligions2025References: 10

    The so-called "octopus norm" was originally described by Pindar and Theognis. It represented the way in which a poet could adapt to contingent circumstances without abdicating his own sensibility, grasping what might be appropriate to say or not to say in relation to a specific audience or context. This contribution considers two occurrences of this so-called norm in the works of the Emperor Julian, revealing a polemical use of the image of the o…

  • Philosophy, Cognition and Pragmatics

    Open AccessAlessandro Capone, Pietro Perconti et al.BOOKPhilosophy, Cognition and…2024

  • Proper names as speech acts

    Alessandro CaponeARTICLEIntercultural Pragmatics2024References: 7

    In this paper, I question the idea that proper names are merely used to refer to things or individuals. However, I am not going to use predicativism to prove this point. I will somehow look at things from the point of view of scholars like Frege or Kripke. I consider that this idea (that proper names are merely used to refer, at least when they are in argument positions) stems from a view of language that does not throw proper light on contextual…

  • Exploring Contextualism and Performativity

    Open AccessAlessandro Capone, Assunta PennaBOOKExploring Contextualism and…2023

  • A pragmatic view of the poetic function of language

    Open AccessAlessandro CaponeARTICLESemiotica2023References: 19

    In this paper, I try to expatiate on the poetic function of language on the basis of considerations by Jakobson and Waugh. I try to bring in the consideration that pragmatics plays an important role in elucidating the poetic function of language. Contextualism allows us to interpret a poem: referents must be fixed or need not be fixed due to the requirements of the discourse; citations are brought in through pragmatic ways; polyphony is achieved …

  • Presuppositions as pragmemes

    Alessandro CaponeARTICLEIntercultural Pragmatics2020Cited by: 4References: 6

    This paper is an example of how contextual information interacts with the interpretation of noun phrases (NPs) in discourse. When we encounter an NP escorted by the definite article or a proper name, the expectation is triggered that the speaker is referring to some referent x that the hearer can normally identify. Strawson and Russell have agreed that a referent must be associated with a definite description so that the assertion containing it c…

  • Metalanguage and subjectivity in indirect reports

    Open AccessMostafa Morady Moghaddam, Alessandro CaponeARTICLELingua2019Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy

    Open AccessAlessandro Capone, Marco Carapezza et al.BOOKFurther Advances in Pragmatics…2018

  • Why did Trump say “I hope you will let Flynn go” to Comey

    Alessandro Capone, Antonino BuccaARTICLEPragmatics and Society2018

    In this paper, we analyse and discuss an utterance/pragmeme/pract proffered by US President Donald Trump and addressed to FBI Director Comey: ‘I hope you will let Flynn go’. 1 We consider the explicature of this utterance (‘I hope you will drop the Russian investigation concerning Flynn’) and its illocutionary and perlocutionary effects. We argue that while Republicans opt for an Austinian or Searlean analysis, in the attempt to deny that this ut…

  • Emma Borg, Pursuing meaning. Oxford

    Open AccessAlessandro CaponeARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2018References: 2

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  • Pragmemes (again)

    Open AccessAlessandro CaponeARTICLELingua2018Cited by: 9References: 12

  • The Pragmeme of Accommodation

    Open AccessVahid Parvaresh, Alessandro CaponeBOOKPragmeme of Accommodation2017

  • Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use

    Jesús Romero Trillo, Keith Allan et al.BOOKPragmemes and Theories of…2017

  • Pragmeme of Accommodation

    Alessandro Capone, Vahid ParvareshBOOKPragmeme of Accommodation2017

  • Conversational presuppositions

    Alessandro CaponeARTICLEIntercultural Pragmatics2017References: 8

    In this paper, I will try to support the admittedly controversial claim that presuppositions are normally defeasible inferences, taking the lead from Levinson, Stephen C. 1983

  • Southern rebels against Italian unification

    Alessandro CaponeARTICLEJournal of Modern Italian Studies2017References: 2

    This article explores counter-revolutionary brigandage in Southern Italy after 1860 (also known as Great Brigandage). Working from archival sources, the article offers a new interpretation of the interactions between the political, social and criminal aspects of the guerrilla war against the Risorgimento. Notwithstanding the plurality of the individual motives leading single actors to fight, it is argued that brigandage was an essentially politic…

  • Précis by Capone in response to Zhang and Zhang

    Open AccessAlessandro CaponeARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2017References: 12

  • Presuppositions as conversational phenomena

    Open AccessAlessandro CaponeARTICLELingua2017Cited by: 6References: 26

  • Uncommon ground

    Fabrizio Macagno, Alessandro CaponeARTICLEIntercultural Pragmatics2016Cited by: 7References: 12

    The purpose of this paper is to show how microargumentation mechanisms of presumptive reasoning and reasoning from best explanation can be used to explain some cases of presupposition suspension. It will be shown how the relationship between presupposition triggers and pragmatic presuppositions can be analyzed in terms of presumptive and nonpresumptive polyphonic articulation of an utterance, resulting in different types of commitments for the in…

  • Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning

    Alessandro CaponeARTICLEAustralian Journal of Linguistics2016References: 3