Davide Garassino

Dr. Davide Garassino is affiliated with the ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics and the Institute of Multilingual Communication at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). His research focuses on pragmatics, information structure, and political communication in Romance languages, with a particular emphasis on presuppositions and cross-linguistic comparisons between French and Italian. He has contributed to studies on AI-generated texts, digital literacy in EFL education, and experimental approaches to political discourse analysis.

Garassino holds editorial roles, co-editing the volume *When Data Challenges Theory: Unexpected and Paradoxical Evidence in Information Structure* (2022) with Daniel Jacob. His work integrates corpus linguistics, cognitive pragmatics, and sociolinguistics, addressing topics such as vowel length in Ligurian and prosodic variation. He collaborates extensively with researchers like Viviana Masia, Nicola Brocca, and Lorenzo Filipponio.

Recent studies explore how presuppositions function in political communication, including analyses of tweets and the integration of AI tools like ChatGPT into linguistic research. He also investigates pedagogical strategies for teaching critical digital literacy in multilingual contexts.