Doriana Cimmino

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Researcher at Independent Researcher

The investigation of the complex relationship between implicitly conveyed meaning and context is central when it comes to defining, describing and understanding both implicit linguistic strategies and context. Despite being core notions in pragmatics, due to the complexity of the task, few fixed points have been reached so far in both directions. I...

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 ana...

This book aims at investigating discourse phenomena (i.e., linguistic elements and constructions that help to manage the organization, flow, and outcome of communication) from a typological and cross-linguistic perspective. Although it is a well-established idea in functional-typological approaches that grammar is shaped by discourse use, systemati...

The relation between pragmatic markers and the peripheries of clauses, utterances and/or turns has been a topic of linguistic interest for the last few decades. Many issues continue to be debated, however, such as “how should the notion of periphery be defined?”, “to what extent do pragmatic markers in the left versus the right periphery fulfill di...

This article examines the functional category of domain adverbials (DAs), which arose fairly recently in the European languages and is claimed to occur frequently in the written press. In order to better understand this category, we investigate the form, use and meaning of DAs in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish and highlight important...

The paper provides evidence that linguistic strategies based on the implicit encoding of information are effective means of deceptive argumentation and manipulation, as they can ease the acceptance of doubtful arguments by distracting addressees’ attention and by encouraging shallow processing of doubtful contents. The persuasive and manipulative f...

The literature in philosophy and linguistics has shed light on a number of communicative devices aimed at leaving part of a sentence’s meaning not fully expressed (Frege, 1892; Ducrot, 1972; Kerbrat-Orecchioni, 1986; Rigotti, 1988; Sbisà, 2007; Lombardi Vallauri, 2009; Domaneschi & Penco, 2016). Furthermore, it is well known that implicit communica...

This article examines the functional category of domain adverbials (DAs), which arose fairly recently in the European languages and is claimed to occur frequently in the written press. In order to better understand this category, we investigate the form, use and meaning of DAs in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish and highlight important...

The aim of this contribution-functioning as preface to the special issue of Linguistik online entitled Formal and functional perspectives on sentence adverbials in the Romance languages and beyond-is to give a general overview of its research object and agenda. We start by providing a morpho-syntactic definition of the category of adverbials and th...

Anna-Maria De Cesare è professoressa borsista del Fondo Nazionale Svizzero per la Ricerca Scientifica all'Università di Basilea. Al progetto da lei diretto, intitolato Italian Constituent Order in a Contrastive Perspective, hanno par-tecipato Davide Garassino, in qualità di ricercatore post-doc, e Rocío Agar Marco, Ana Albom e Doriana Cimmino, in q...