CAPONE Alessandro

Alessandro Capone
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Education

M.A. in Modern Languages, University of Messina (1988)
M.Phil. in general linguistics, University of Oxford (1992)
Ph.D. in general linguistics, University of Oxford (1998)
Ph.D. in Philosophy of language, University of Palermo (2012).

Scholarships:
Ministero della Ricerca Scientifica Rome (1990-91)
British Academy (1991-92)
Senior scholarship, Magdalen College, Oxford (1993-94).
University of Messina (1994-95)

Research Fellowship, University of Messina (2000-2002)
Lectureship in Applied Linguistics (2002-2003)
Cultore della materia (Glottologia e linguistica) (2003- 2014).
Habilitation as associate professor in linguistics and in philosophy of language (2013)
Habilitation as full professor in linguistics and in philosophy of language (2014)
Associate Professor at the University of Messina, Faculty of Cognitive Science, 2015 (starting presumably October 2015) .

(Professor Capone was examined by James Higginbotham and Sally McConnell-Ginet at the University of Oxford for his doctorate in linguistics; he was examined by Prof. Paolo Leonardi and Perconti for his doctorate in philosophy of language at the University of Palermo; he was examined by Prof. S. Predelli for his habilitation as full professor in philosophy of language and by Denis Delfitto for the habilitation as full professor of general linguistics).

Prof. Capone has three monographs on the pragmatics of language. His fourth monograph The pragmatics of indirect reports (pp. 400) was accepted by Springer in Nov. 2015.

Editorial activities

Pragmemes, Special Issue of Journal of Pragmatics (2010)

Perspectives on language use and pragmatics. A volume in memory of Sorin Stati, Lincom, 2010.

Attitudes ‘de se’: linguistics, epistemology, Metaphysics, CSLI, 2013 (co-edited by Neil Feit);

vol. 1 Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy
vol. 2 Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics

Springer, 2013, (co-edited by Franco Lo Pip...