Alessandro Capone is a full professor of General Linguistics at the University of Messina. He has published about a hundred articles in international journals and several monographs on indirect speech and the relationship between pragmatics and philosophy. Alessandro Capone is part of the scientific committee of various prestigious international journals and coordinates the Research and Mobility project at the University of Messina

• Presuppositions as pragmemes: The case of exemplification acts.- On the distinction between reference and referential presuppositions.- Proper names as speech acts.- Quasi-proper names and pragmatics.- Thinking, expressing and reporting ‘de se’ thoughts (and the problem of proper names).- Conclusion.

Alessandro Capone is a full professor of General Linguistics at the University of Messina. He has published about a hundred articles in international journals and several monographs on indirect speech and the relationship between pragmatics and philosophy. Alessandro Capone is part of the scientific committee of various prestigious international journals and coordinates the Research and Mobility project at the University of Messina

• Presuppositions as pragmemes: The case of exemplification acts.- On the distinction between reference and referential presuppositions.- Proper names as speech acts.- Quasi-proper names and pragmatics.- Thinking, expressing and reporting ‘de se’ thoughts (and the problem of proper names).- Conclusion.

Alessandro Capone is a full professor of General Linguistics at the University of Messina. He has published about a hundred articles in international journals and several monographs on indirect speech and the relationship between pragmatics and philosophy. Alessandro Capone is part of the scientific committee of various prestigious international journals and coordinates the Research and Mobility project at the University of Messina

• Presuppositions as pragmemes: The case of exemplification acts.- On the distinction between reference and referential presuppositions.- Proper names as speech acts.- Quasi-proper names and pragmatics.- Thinking, expressing and reporting ‘de se’ thoughts (and the problem of proper names).- Conclusion.