Angelo Damiano Delliponti

BIOGRAPHY

I'm currently working on the PersOn project led by Barbara Konat at LEAP (Laboratory of Everyday Argumentation and Persuasion), aiming to develop a new Cognitive-Computational Pragmatic Model of Persuasion specifically designed for the social media environment. My main task is to aid the implementation of the project's theoretical side, specifically related to pragmatic theory and the cognitive aspects of human communication.

The title of my doctoral thesis is "The Role of Pragmatic Competence and Ostensive Communication in Language". It is a paper-based dissertation composed of some of the main publications and manuscripts produced during my academic career. The central topics are pragmatic competence and ostensive communication. Main research question: whether basic pragmatic competence for ostensive communication relies on high-level cognitive processes unique to humans or if lower-level processes are sufficient. The introduction outlines the aims of the research, including examining the role of pragmatic competence and ostensive communication in language, proposing a model of ostensive communication anchored in low-level processes, and summarizing the contents of the publications.

PUBLICATIONS

• Delliponti, A. D. (2022). Motor Simulation and Ostensive-Inferential Communication. AVANT. Pismo Awangardy Filozoficzno-Naukowej, (1), 1-20

• Delliponti, A. (2022). Motor Simulation and Ostensive-inferential communication: insights and clarifications. Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, 19, 35-54.

• Delliponti, A., Raia, R., Sanguedolce, G., Gutowski, A., Pleyer, M., Sibierska, M., ... & Wacewicz, S. (2023). Experimental Semiotics: A Systematic Categorization of Experimental Studies on the Bootstrapping of Communication Systems. Biosemiotics, 1-20

• Pleyer, M., Delliponti, A. D., Kuleshova, S., Placiński, M., Raia, R., Sanguedolce, G., & Sibierska, M. (2024). The role of communication channel in the emergence of novel communication systems in experimental semiotics. In Introducing Evolutionary Pragmatics (pp. 63-80). Routledge

• Delliponti, A. D., Zhang, E. Q., Ng, Y. Y., & Pleyer, M. (2024). The cognitive requirements for developing a multimodal communication system: Evidence from experimental semiotics and comparative cognition. The Evolution of Language Conferences

• Delliponti, A. D., Wacewicz, S., & Pleyer, M. Alignment vs conflict of interests in language evolution: Two pathways to high-level mindreading

• Ferretti, F., Delliponti. A. D., Deriu, V., Chiera, A., Altavilla, D., Nicchiarelli, S., Wacewicz, S., and Adornetti, I. Which mindreading for ostensive communication? An Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) study of how the brain processes communicative and informative intentions. (Under review in “Cognitive Science”)

GRANTS

• I got a grant for the TRAINCREASE project ("Microtwinning"), an international project, in cooperation between the University of Warsaw and Aarhus University (Denmark. The project is supervised by the senior researcher, Prof. Kristian Tylén). I will participate in a project that will result in an experimental semiotic study, currently entitled: "Emergence of ostensive communication: an experimental semiotic computer game with human and artificial players". This study will culminate in a paper, as part of my PhD project, on ostensive communication (2022)

RESEARCH STAYS, INTERNSHIPS

• 2 weeks research stay at Rome, Roma Tre University (Cosmic Lab, led by prof. F. Ferretti) (2022)

• Internship (1 month) at Rome, Roma Tre University (Cosmic Lab, led by prof. F. Ferretti) (2023)

• Long research stay (2 months) at Rome, Roma Tre University (2024)

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