Diana Mazzarella

Diana Mazzarella is a Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), specializing in the intersection of pragmatics, semantics, and sociolinguistics. Her work explores speaker commitment, politeness, and negative strengthening through experimental methodologies.

Key research contributions include presentations at major academic conferences such as:

• Xprag Italy (University of Cagliari, 2019)
• The 8th Experimental Pragmatics Conference (University of Edinburgh, 2019)
• Social Meaning Berlin (ZAS, Berlin, 2019)
• Workshop 'Logical Words' (University of Geneva, 2019)
• EPICS VIII (Seville, 2018)

Her collaborative work with scholars like Nicole Gotzner, Hugo Mercier, and Ira Noveck highlights interdisciplinary approaches to linguistic theory and cognitive pragmatics. She received the prestigious Leibniz-DAAD Fellowship for her research in these areas.