Diana Mazzarella: Epistemic vigilance at play: Navigating presupposition and assertion

Tuesday January 28 2025 @11:30 (CET)
Sala B, Edificio de Humanidades, UNED & online

Abstract
In this talk, I will explore how linguistic encoding shapes trust calibration and misinformation detection. Drawing on data from children and adults, I examine how hearers process presupposition and assertion, shedding light on their role in the development and exercise of epistemic vigilance towards deception.

Bio
Diana Mazzarella is a Full Professor at the Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Neuchâtel. Her current work lies in the interdisciplinary field of pragmatics, which explores language and communication from a cognitive perspective. Previously, she was a Leibniz-DAAD research fellow at the Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin and a Fyssen research fellow at the Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, Lyon. Mazzarella obtained her PhD in Linguistics at University College London, under the supervision of Prof. Robyn Carston.