Viviana Masia
Biographic Data
| ID | 1002020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Viviana Masia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Viviana |
| FAMILY NAME | Masia |
| SIGNATURE | MASIA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roma Tre University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8162-201X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The manipulative facet of translating implicit communication
This paper examines the implications of translation choices that fail to consistently render implicit strategies from a source language into a target language. In the heterogeneous framework of implicit communication phenomena, this paper investigates the translation of presuppositions, implicatures, and topic-focus structures. Furthermore, it highlights how their consistent or inconsistent rendering into other languages might make a translated t…
The evidential meaning of presupposition and implicature between retractability and deniability of information
The relation evidentiality bears on the coding of some information as presupposition or as implicature is still an underexplored research field. In this paper, such an interplay is addressed by looking into how presupposed and implied contents (differently) respond to contexts of challenge and deniability. As taken for granted information (Stalnaker, Robert. 1973. Presuppositions. Journal of Philosophical Logic 2(4). 447–457), presupposition is m…
The pragmatics of evidentiality
Irish autonomous verbs in a semantic-pragmatic interface
Autonomous verbs in Irish are special verb forms incompatible with the surface realization of a subject. Previous studies have suggested to postulate empty categories such as pro, PRO or expletive pro to fill the subject position (cf. Stenson 1989; McCloskey 2007; Bondaruk/ Charzyńska-Wóicjk 2003), thus rejecting the idea that these verbs might be classified as completely subjectless. A series of syntactic tests bear out the hypothesis that, at l…
The evidential dimension of implicitly conveyed disagreement in political debates
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 communication in political discourse; notably, analyzing the distribution of presuppositions and implicatures in two political debates, it will be argued that the u…
Manipulative impact of implicit communication
This paper presents the application of a quantitative model for measuring the impact of manipulative implicit linguistic strategies on a small comparable corpus of Italian, German and French political discourses. The aim is to show the cross-linguistic applicability of the model, originally developed and put to test on Italian. Furthermore, the analysis allows a quantitative and qualitative comparison of the three comparable corpora: some statist…
Recalling presupposed information
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 presupposed content of two presupposition triggers (definite descriptions and change of state verbs), as opposed to their explicit paraphrase, by answering verifica…
Information structure effects on the processing of nouns and verbs
Electroencephalographic (EEG) signals can reveal the cost required to deal with information structure mismatches in speech or in text contexts. The present study investigates the costs related to the processing of different associations between the syntactic categories of Noun and Verb and the information categories of Topic and Focus. It is hypothesized that – due to the very nature (respectively, predicative and non-predicative) of verbal and n…
The persuasive and manipulative power of implicit communication
Is implicit communication quantifiable? A corpus-based analysis of British and Italian political tweets
Twitter is nowadays a powerful means of political propaganda. Its effectiveness can be easily appreciated in the large amounts of messages exchanged by politicians every day. This wealth of data, together with the interactive nature of the social medium, provides an ideal basis for the analysis of a striking feature of political messages, i.e., their implicitness, often achieved using presuppositions, among other strategies. The present work prop…
Presupposition, assertion and the encoding of evidentiality in political discourse
The way linguistic messages are “packaged” in political discourse often reflects evidentially-based criteria and, notably, the intention of the politician to make his epistemic commitment more or less manifest in relation to the type of content proffered to the receiver. The present paper analyzes the evidential function of presupposition and assertion (apud Masia 2017) in a corpus of English, French and Italian political speeches, with the aim o…
Context and Information Structure constraints on factivity
Implicitness impact
Implicitness impact
Context and Information Structure constraints on factivity
Is implicit communication quantifiable? A corpus-based analysis of British and Italian political tweets
Twitter is nowadays a powerful means of political propaganda. Its effectiveness can be easily appreciated in the large amounts of messages exchanged by politicians every day. This wealth of data, together with the interactive nature of the social medium, provides an ideal basis for the analysis of a striking feature of political messages, i.e., their implicitness, often achieved using presuppositions, among other strategies. The present work prop…
Implicitness impact
Context and Information Structure constraints on factivity
Presupposition, assertion and the encoding of evidentiality in political discourse
The way linguistic messages are “packaged” in political discourse often reflects evidentially-based criteria and, notably, the intention of the politician to make his epistemic commitment more or less manifest in relation to the type of content proffered to the receiver. The present paper analyzes the evidential function of presupposition and assertion (apud Masia 2017) in a corpus of English, French and Italian political speeches, with the aim o…
Information structure effects on the processing of nouns and verbs
Electroencephalographic (EEG) signals can reveal the cost required to deal with information structure mismatches in speech or in text contexts. The present study investigates the costs related to the processing of different associations between the syntactic categories of Noun and Verb and the information categories of Topic and Focus. It is hypothesized that – due to the very nature (respectively, predicative and non-predicative) of verbal and n…
The persuasive and manipulative power of implicit communication
Is implicit communication quantifiable? A corpus-based analysis of British and Italian political tweets
Twitter is nowadays a powerful means of political propaganda. Its effectiveness can be easily appreciated in the large amounts of messages exchanged by politicians every day. This wealth of data, together with the interactive nature of the social medium, provides an ideal basis for the analysis of a striking feature of political messages, i.e., their implicitness, often achieved using presuppositions, among other strategies. The present work prop…
Manipulative impact of implicit communication
This paper presents the application of a quantitative model for measuring the impact of manipulative implicit linguistic strategies on a small comparable corpus of Italian, German and French political discourses. The aim is to show the cross-linguistic applicability of the model, originally developed and put to test on Italian. Furthermore, the analysis allows a quantitative and qualitative comparison of the three comparable corpora: some statist…
Recalling presupposed information
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 presupposed content of two presupposition triggers (definite descriptions and change of state verbs), as opposed to their explicit paraphrase, by answering verifica…
Irish autonomous verbs in a semantic-pragmatic interface
Autonomous verbs in Irish are special verb forms incompatible with the surface realization of a subject. Previous studies have suggested to postulate empty categories such as pro, PRO or expletive pro to fill the subject position (cf. Stenson 1989; McCloskey 2007; Bondaruk/ Charzyńska-Wóicjk 2003), thus rejecting the idea that these verbs might be classified as completely subjectless. A series of syntactic tests bear out the hypothesis that, at l…
The evidential dimension of implicitly conveyed disagreement in political debates
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 communication in political discourse; notably, analyzing the distribution of presuppositions and implicatures in two political debates, it will be argued that the u…
The manipulative facet of translating implicit communication
This paper examines the implications of translation choices that fail to consistently render implicit strategies from a source language into a target language. In the heterogeneous framework of implicit communication phenomena, this paper investigates the translation of presuppositions, implicatures, and topic-focus structures. Furthermore, it highlights how their consistent or inconsistent rendering into other languages might make a translated t…
The evidential meaning of presupposition and implicature between retractability and deniability of information
The relation evidentiality bears on the coding of some information as presupposition or as implicature is still an underexplored research field. In this paper, such an interplay is addressed by looking into how presupposed and implied contents (differently) respond to contexts of challenge and deniability. As taken for granted information (Stalnaker, Robert. 1973. Presuppositions. Journal of Philosophical Logic 2(4). 447–457), presupposition is m…
The pragmatics of evidentiality
Linguistics (13 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Presupposition (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works)