Carla Bazzanella | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 August 1947 Turin, Italy |
| Died | 1 July 2022 (aged 74) |
| Alma mater | University of Turin |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cognitive linguistics, cognitive science, pragmatics |
| Institutions | University of Turin |
Carla Bazzanella (6 August 1947 – 1 July 2022) was an Italian linguist.[1]
Bazzanella was born in Turin. After graduating in classics from the University of Turin in 1971, Carla Bazzanella became a lecturer and researcher at the University of Pavia. She held this post from 1976 to 1983. After that she moved back to Turin, and taught glottology and philosophy of language until 1998. Since 2001 she had been an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Turin, where she taught both general linguistics and cognitive linguistics. She retired in 2012, but was active in the academic debate.
Bazzanella was a contributor to Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics and Cognition, and Language Sciences. She was also a member of the Società di Linguistica Italiana, the Associazione Italiana di Scienze Cognitive, and the International Pragmatics Association.
She died on 1 July 2022, at the age of 74.[2]
