Marina Sbisà – CV
Birth date
Trieste (Italy), 22/09/1948
Formation
1967-1971 University of Trieste, Faculty of Lettere e Filosofia.
1971 Degree
in Philosophy (supervisor: Guido Morpurgo-Tagliabue; score: 110/110 cum laude).
Academic positions at the
University of Trieste
1975 Researcher in Philosophy
1991 Lecturer in Semiotics
1992 Associate Professor of Semiotics
1998 Associate Professor of Philosophy of Language
2001 Full Professor (Professore Ordinario) of Philosophy and Theory of
Languages
2018 (November 1st) – to date
Retired
2018 (November 1st) – to date
Research collaborator as Senior Scholar
2019 (Spring Term) Lecturer in Philosophy of Language as Eminent Scholar
Roles at the University of Trieste
Marina Sbisà served on several occasions as Coordinator or
Vice-Coordinator of study programs at BA, MA and PhD level.
She was a member of the CIRD (Interdepartmental Center for Research on
Teaching), University of Trieste, and the Coordinator of the CIMeL
(Interdepartmental Center for Research on Mind and Language).
In 2012-2015 she served as the Head of the Department of Humanities and a
member of the Academic Senate.
Research
Her research has been concerned with
- the philosophy of language of Wittgenstein, Austin, and Grice
- the philosophy of J.L. Austin and how it contributes to various
philosophical issues
- pragmatics (speech act theory, presupposition, implicature)
- gender studies (the feminine subject, critique of the stereotype of the
Mother, gender and language)
narrative semiotics and discourse analysis (analyses of selected samples
or corpora from conversations, the press, TV or social networks, literary texts,
especially in the fields of political discourse, scientific information, L1
teaching, and gender relations)
- linguistic and cultural identities.
Participation in research projects and other research experiences
1972
Collaboration with J.O. Urmson (Oxford, Corpus Christi College) on the
revised edition of J.L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words.
1997-2005 Participation in several
Italian national research projects (PRIN) in the area of philosophy and
direction of the local research units at the University of Trieste
1999 (Spring) Visiting Scholar at
the Department of Philosophy of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (MD), USA.
2001-2004 Participation in the
European research project "Participation and the Dynamics of Social Positioning
- The Case of Biotechnology. Images of Self and Other in Decision-Making
Procedures" coordinated by Alfons Bora (University of Bielefeld) and direction
of the research unit at the University of Trieste
2002 (Fall) Visiting Scholar at the
Department of Philosophy of Rutgers University, New Brunswick (NJ), USA.
2008-2010 Participation in the PRIN
project on “Aspects of truth” as a member of the research unit of the University
of Bologna, directed by Paolo Leonardi.
2008-2017 Research visits to the
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University as an Academic Visitor.
2012-15 Participation in the
research project of the University of Trieste, Department of Humanities,
“Pragmatismo e pragmatica. Problemi e prospettive”, directed by Riccardo
Martinelli.
2013-2015, participation
in a PRIN project on “Realism and objectivity” as a member of the
research unit of the University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, directed by Annalisa
Coliva.
2015-2017, Participation in the
research project of the University of Trieste, Department of Humanities, “The
Jew’s Body.
Rappresentazioni, narrazioni, linguaggi dopo la Shoah”,
directed by Tullia Catalan.
Invited Professorships and
Fellowships
2006 (Hilary Term) Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford
2006 (September) Invited cycle of
lectures at Fuji Women’s University, Sapporo, Japan.
2010 (May) Visiting Professor at
the University of Amiens and at CURAPP (CNRS), France.
2019 (Trinity Term) Visiting Fellow
at New College, Oxford.
2019 (June) – to date Elected
Member of the Acadaemia Europaea.
2020 (May) Visiting Professor at
the University of Szczecin.
Lectures and Seminars
Marina Sbisà delivered lectures and conducted seminars at various
Universities in Italy and abroad:
Invited talks at Conferences or
Workshops:
International Conference “Meaning, Context and Cognition”, University of
Lodz, Lodz, Poland, 11-13/04/2013
Conference “Impliciti nei testi normativi”, Department of Law of the
University of Torino, Torino, 28/11/ 2013
International Conference “Speech Acts in Theory and Practice”, University
of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland, 12-13/12/2013
Workshop on Speech Acts, Berlin, Zentrum für Allgemeine
Sprachwissenschaft, 12-13/06/2015
Workshop “J.L. Austin Today”, Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 4-5/09/2015
Conference “Knowledge Dissemination in the Digital Era. Language and
Episteme”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena 18-20/11/2015 (with
Paolo Labinaz)
International Conference “What’s wrong (and what’s right) with ordinary
language philosophy”, Turku (Åbo Akademi University), 5-6/05/2017
Workshop on Speech Acts, Cambridge,
Faculty of Philosophy, 6/06/2019
53rd Conference of the Società di
Linguistica Italiana (Workshop on "Implicit meaning as a means of persuasion"),
Como, Università dell'Insubria, 20/09/2019
Workshop "Speech, Harm and Social Norms", Milano,
Università Vita e Salute S. Raffaele, 3/10/2019
Conference "Atti linguistici", Padova, 12-13/12/2019
Conference "Hate, Fake e altri enigmi. Pratiche discorsive
nello spazio pubblico", Viterbo, 17-18/01/2020
Workshop “Comprendere la mente.
L’eredità di Wittgenstein alla luce degli sviluppi della filosofia della mente
contemporanea”, Napoli, Istituto Italiano Studi Filosofici, 22-25/03/2021
Conference “Le dimensioni del
conflitto: Linguaggio, educazione, politica”, Catania 9-10/12/2021
Workshop
“Norms of Public Argument: a Speech Act Perspective”, Lisbona (Nova University),
27-29/06/ 2022
Workshop
“Phenomenology: Linguistic or Eidetic?”, Graz 8-10/06/2023
“Giornate di studio
sull'argomentazione: Dialogare, includere, vendere. L'arte di argomentare nella
società contemporanea”, L’Aquila 28-29/09/2023
Membership in the Boards of Scientific Associations:
1991-to date Member of the Board of
the International Pragmatics Association
1994-1996 Member of the Board of
the Società di Linguistica Italiana
2008-2010 Member of the Board of
the Società di Filosofia del Linguaggio
2018-2023 Member of the
Executive Committee of the International Pragmatics Association
2018-to date Member of the Board and President of SWIP Italia (Society for Women in Philosophy, Italy)
Editorial and Reviewer’s Activities
Marina Sbisà is a member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of
Pragmatics, Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, and Lingua. She also served in the
Editorial Board of Esercizi Filosofici, electronic journal in Philosophy
produced at the Department of Humanities, University of Trieste (2006-2018). She
is a member of the Editorial Board of the series "Pragmatics and Beyond" (John
Benjamins, Amsterdam) and of the series “Archivio delle Filosofe” promoted by
SWIP Italy and published online by EUT, Trieste.
She has acted as a reviewer for various international journals in
philosophy and linguistics, among which: Acta Analytica, Erkenntnis, European
Journal of Philosophy, Functions of Language, Journal of Philosophy, Journal of
Pragmatics, Kashmir Journal of Language Research, Kriterion, Language &
Communication, Language Sciences, Linguistic Compass, Phenomenology & Mind,
Philosophical Quarterly, Pragmatics, Principia, Rivista di Estetica, Rivista di
Linguistica Italiana, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica Junior, Rivista
Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, Synthese, Text & Talk, Topoi.
Recent and selected publications:
Books:
Austinian Themes. Illocution, Action,
Knowledge, Truth, and Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
Detto non detto. Le forme della
comunicazione implicita (Said not said.The forms of implicit communication),
Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2007, 2nd ed. 2010, pp. 212
Linguaggio, ragione, interazione
(Language, reason, interaction), Bologna: Il Mulino, 1989, pp. 284, 2nd ed. as
an e-book, Trieste: EUT, 2009
La mamma
di carta. Per una critica dello stereotipo materno
(The Paper Mother.
Towards a critique of the maternal
stereotype), Milano: Emme, 1984, pp. 115
Wittgenstein, Roma: Astrolabio, 1975, pp. 143
Edited books:
Pragmatics of Speech Actions
ed. by M. Sbisà and K. Turner, Berlin:
de Gruyter Mouton 2013, pp. 733
Philosophical perspectives for pragmatics.
Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights
10, ed. by M.Sbisà, J-O. Östman, J. Verschueren, Amsterdam: John Benjamins,
2011, pp. 318
Come sapere il parto. Storia, scenari, linguaggi (How to be knowledgeable
about childbirth.
History, scenarios, languages), ed. by M. Sbisà, Torino: Rosenberg e Sellier
1992, pp. 237
J.L. Austin,
Come fare cose con le parole.
Italian translation of J.L. Austin,
How to Do Things with Words, edited by Carlo Penco & M. Sbisà. Genova: Marietti,
1987
Possibilities and limitations of pragmatics,
ed. by
H. Parret,
M. Sbisà & J. Verschueren, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1981, pp. 854
Gli atti
linguistici. Aspetti e problemi di filosofia del linguaggio (Speech acts.
Perspectives and issues in the philosophy of language), ed. by M. Sbisà. Milano:
Feltrinelli, 1978, pp. 298
J.L. Austin, How to Do Things
with Words. 2nd revised edition by J.O. Urmson & M. Sbisà. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1975.
Articles*:
*selection from those not
reprinted in Essays on Speech Acts,
2023
Presupposition and
implicature: Varieties of implicit meaning in explicitation practices. Journal
of Pragmatics 182, 2021, pp. 176-188
(with Paolo Labinaz)
Argumentation as a dimension of discourse: The case of news articles, Pragmatics
& Cognition 25 (3), 2018, pp. 602-630.
Speech acts without
propositions? Grazer Philosophische Studien 72, 2006, pp. 155-178.
After Grice: neo- and
post- perspectives. Journal of Pragmatics 38, 2006, pp. 2223-2234.
The feminine subject and
female body in discourse about childbirth.
European Journal of Women's Studies 3,
1996, pp. 363-76.
Politica e racconto. Il caso delle
elezioni italiane 1994.
Polis, 10 (2), 1996, pp.197-217.
Speech acts and the
expression of affect. Grazer Linguistische Studien 33/34, 1990, pp. 279-95.
Acte(s) de langage et acte
d'énonciation. Langages 70, 1983, pp. 99-106.
(with Paolo Fabbri) Models
(?) for a pragmatic analysis. Journal of Pragmatics 4, 1980, pp. 301-19.
Speech acts e femminilità.
Problemi 47, 1976, pp.260-83.
Chapters*:
*selection from those not reprinted in
Essays on Speech Acts, 2023
Replies to contributors. In L.
Caponetto and P. Labinaz (eds),
Sbisà on Speech as Action
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023,
pp. 299-332.
Agency and Identity in the framework of an interactional approach. In G.
De Anna and M. Dozzi (eds), Political Identity and the metaphysics of polities.
New York: Routledge, 2023.
(Im)politeness and the human subject. In Chaoqun Xie (ed), The Philosophy
of (Im)politeness, Cham: Springer, 2021, pp. 157-177.
Philosophical Pragmatics. In
A.H. Jucker, K.P. Schneider and W. Bublitz (Eds.), Methods in Pragmatics,
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2018
Some remarks about speech act pluralism.
In A. Capone et al.
(eds), Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy,
Springer, 2013, pp. 227-243.
J.L. Austin’s linguistic method: towards a
reassessment. In Sandra Laugier, Christophe Al-Saleh (eds), John L. Austin et la
philosophie du langage ordinaire, pp. 109-135. Hildesheim: Olms, 2011.
(with Patrizia Vascotto) How to conceive of the other's point of view:
considerations from a case study in Trieste. In Sharon Millar, John Wilson
(eds), The Discourse of Europe. Talk and Text in Everyday Life, pp. 153-171.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007.
Communicating citizenship in verbal interaction: principles of a speech
act-oriented discourse analysis. In H. Hausendorf and A. Bora (eds), Analysing
citizenship talk, pp. 151-180.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006.
Affetto e diritto come dimensioni
dell'interazione verbale. In Carlo Galimberti (ed.), La conversazione.
Prospettive sull'interazione psico-sociale. Milano: Guerini, 1992, pp.185-203.
Fra medico uomo e paziente donna:
quale analisi?. In Franca Pizzini (ed.), Asimmetrie comunicative. Differenze di
genere nell'interazione medico-paziente. Milano: Franco Angeli, 1990, pp. 79-99.
Atti linguistici di spiegazione. In
M.S. Barbieri (ed.), La spiegazione nell'interazione sociale: aspetti cognitivi
ed evolutivi.
Torino: Loescher, 1989, pp. 71-103.
Speech acts and context change. In T. Ballmer & W. Wildgen (eds),
Process linguistics. pp. 252-79.
Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1987.
Perlocuzione e presupposizioni. In
F. Albano Leoni and M.R. Pigliasco (eds), Retorica e scienze del linguaggio.
Roma: Bulzoni, 1979, pp.37-60.
Il problema della classificazione
degli atti illocutori (The problem of the classification of illocutionary acts).
In R. Piovesan (ed.), Ricerche di
filosofia linguistica, pp.5-43. Firenze: Sansoni, 1972