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Alessandro Capone
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Ceftazidime-avibactam use for klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing k. pneumoniae infections: A retrospective observational multicenter study
2021
Abstract Background A growing body of observational evidence supports the value of ceftazidime-avibactam (CAZ-AVI) in managing infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. Methods We retrospectively analyzed observational data on use and outcomes of CAZ-AVI therapy for infections caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase–producing K. pneumoniae (KPC-Kp) strains. Multivariate regression analysis was used to identify variables independently associated with 30-day mortality. Results were adjusted for propensity score for receipt of CAZ-AVI combination regimens versus CAZ-AVI monotherapy. Results The cohort comprised 577 adults with bloodstream infections (n = 391) or nonba…
About the Speaker: Towards a Syntax of Indexicality
2013
I am very pleased to review this book which ties grammar to discourse—without implying that discourse ultimately shapes grammar or has an influence on it—a book written within the Chomskyan traditi...
Review of Carruthers (2006): The Architecture of the Mind
2010
Assertion: New Philosophical Essays
2013
In this short review, I cannot do justice to a book that is long and complex, but I can do my best to give readers clues to what the book is about and about its merits. I think readers interested i...
Barack Obama's South Carolina speech
2010
Abstract In this paper, I shall analyze US Presidential Barack Obama's South Carolina victory speech from the perspective of pragmemes. In particular, I shall explore the idea that this speech is constituted by many voices (in other words, it displays polyphony, to use an idea due to Bakhtin, 1981 , Bakhtin, 1986 ) and that the audience is part of this speech event, adding and contributing to its text in a collaborative way (in particular, in constructing meaning). As many are aware (including the journalists who report day by day on Barack Obama's achievements), Obama uses the technique of ‘personification’ 1 ( The Economist , December 13th, 2007). When he voices an idea, he does not just …
Default Semantics and the architecture of the mind
2011
In this paper, I explore the relationship between Relevance Theory and Jaszczolt's Default Semantics, framing this debate within the picture of massive modularity tempered by the idea of brain plasticity (Perkins, 2007). While Relevance Theory focuses on processing (see cognitive efforts and contextual effects interplay), Default Semantics focuses on types of sources from which addressees draw information and types of processes that interact in providing it. In particular, I argue that Relevance Theory interacts with default semantics by standardizing inferences which are ultimately compressed (to use a term by Bach, 1998) into a default semantics. I briefly discuss potential obstacles to t…
On the social practice of indirect reports (further advances in the theory of pragmemes)
2010
Abstract This paper deals with the social practice of indirect reports and treats them as cases of language games. It proposes a number of principles like the following: Paraphrasis/Form Principle The that-clause embedded in the verb ‘say’ is a paraphrasis of what Y said, and meets the following constraints: should Y hear what X said he (Y) had said, he would not take issue with it, as to content, but would approve of it as a fair paraphrasis of his original utterance. Furthermore, he would not object to vocalizing the assertion made out of the words following the complementizer ‘that’ on account of its form/style. Furthermore, it connects such principles with Relevance Theory consideration…
Language Turned on Itself
2009
Language as Dialogue: From Rules to Principles of Probability
2013
Clinical Experience with Ceftazidime-Avibactam for the Treatment of Infections due to Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria Other than Carbapene…
2020
Background: Experience in real clinical practice with ceftazidime-avibactam for the treatment of serious infections due to gram&minus
The Attributive/Referential Distinction, Pragmatics, Modularity of Mind and Modularization
2011
In this paper I deal with the attributive/referential distinction. After reviewing the literature on the issue, I adopt Jaszczolt's view based on default semantics. I relate her view to Sperber and Wilson's Principle of Relevance. I argue in favour of the modularity hypothesis in connection with pragmatic interpretations. I also discuss the issue of modularization a la Karmiloff-Smith in connection with default inferences and, in particular, referential readings of NPs. I reply to some considerations by Cummings and use data from referential/attributive uses of NPs to show that the modularity hypothesis is defensible.
Insensitive Semantics. A Defence of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism
2008
Belief reports and pragmatic intrusion: the case of null appositives
2008
Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law
2013
Default semantics. Foundations of a compositional theory of acts of communication
2009
Representing Time: An Essay on Temporality as Modality
2009
Belief reports and pragmatic intrusion: the case of null appositives. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (2008), 1019-1040.
2008
Introduction to special issue on 'Pragmemes'
2011
Pragmemes. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (2005), 1355-1371.
2005
Pragmemes revisited
2010
Are explicatures cancellable? “Journal of Intercultural Pragmatics” 6/1 (2009), 55-83.
2009
Further considerations on the cancellability of explicatures
2009
Cytomegalovirus infection management in solid organ transplant recipients across European centers in the time of molecular diagnostics: An ESGICH sur…
2017
Background Scant information is available about how transplant centers are managing their use of quantitative molecular testing (QNAT) assays for active cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection monitoring in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. The current study was aimed at gathering information on current practices in the management of CMV infection across European centers in the era of molecular testing assays. Methods A questionnaire-based cross-sectional survey study was conducted by the European Study Group of Infections in Immunocompromised Hosts (ESGICH) of the Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID). The invitation and a weekly reminder with a personal link to …
Review of Lepore & Ludwig (2005). Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality
2007
Shared Knowledge
2005
On pragmemes again: dealing with death
2010
On Grice's circle
2006
The semantics and pragmatics of 'de se' attitudes
2010
Speech acts (definition and classification)
2005
Review of Recanati’s “Literal Meaning”,
2005
Review of Wierzbicka: English, meaning and culture
2008
Review of Cappelen, H. & Lepore, E. Insensitive Semantics, Journal of Pragmatics (2008), pp. 1-11;
2008
Barack Obama’s South Carolina’s speech. RASK: International Journal of Language and Communication, 27 (2008), pp. 87-122.
2008
"I saw you" (Towards a theory of pragmemes)
2004
On Grice’s circle (further considerations on the semantics/pragmatics debate)
2006
Between Minds: representing one’s own and others’ minds (through explicatures).
2012
In this dissertation, I show how promising pragmatic intrusion based on the notion of explicature can be in dealing with various topics belonging to epistemology and knowledge transmission, such as propositional attitude reports, attitudes ‘de se’, Immunity to Error through Misidentification, knowing how, quotation and indirect reports. The dissertation is divided into two parts. In the first part, I discuss theoretical problems pertaining to the notion of explicatures, the most important of which is ‘Are explicatures cancellable?’ . I argue that they are not. I support this position further through considerations on modularity of mind. I also discuss the picture of inferential pragmatics b…