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    Not Only Slurs. A Pragma-Rhetorical Approach to Verbal Abuse
    In Alessandro Capone, Marco Carapezza & Franco Lo Piparo (eds.), Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 2 Theories and Applications, Springer Verlag. pp. 273-287. 2019.
    The topic of this paper is the complex phenomenon of verbal abuse. The aim is to show the productivity of a pragma-rhetorical approach in addressing this issue. Indeed, integrating modern pragmatics with classical rhetoric, this approach does not isolate words from social practices and therefore is not exclusively focused on slurs (as is the case in the current debate on this topic in the field of the philosophy of language) but it concerns verbal abuse in general. I argue that this wider approa…Read more
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    On the origin of the boson peak in globular proteins
    with S. Ciliberti and P. De Los Rios
    Philosophical Magazine 87 (3-5): 631-641. 2007.
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    Filosofie del linguaggio: storie, autori, concetti (edited book)
    with Felice Cimatti
    Carocci editore. 2016.
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    L’arte retorica: antenata o sorella della pragmatica?
    Esercizi Filosofici 6 (1): 116-132. 2011.
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    Giornale di Metafisica 28 (2): 389-396. 2006.