Genovesi, C. (forthcoming). Masters of metaphor: Ricœur on Aristotle. In G. Marcelo, M. Soares, I. Salgueiro & J.E. Diogo (Eds.), Ricœur’s Reception of the Greek Classics: Myth, Tragedy and Poetics. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Ricœur, P. (1963). Symbol and Myth. (C. Genovesi, Trans, 2025). Le Fonds Ricœur. https://bibnum.explore.psl.eu/s/psl/ark:/18469/2s1qr.

Genovesi, C., & Hesse, J. (2025). Deviance and the literal-metaphorical distinction revisited. Inquiry, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2025.2458537.

Hesse, J., Genovesi, C., & Corazza, E. (2023). Metaphorical uses of proper names and the continuity hypothesis, Journal of Semantics, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffad006

Genovesi, C. (2023). Grice's Café: coffee, cream, and metaphor comprehension. Frontiers in Communication, 8:1175587. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1175587

Genovesi, C., & Garmendia, E. (Eds.). (2023). A critical eye on Critical Pragmatics: Issues at the frontier of semantics and pragmatics. Topoi. https://link.springer.com/collections/bgegfgfgee

Genovesi, C., & Garmendia, E. (2023). Introduction: A critical eye on Critical Pragmatics. Topoi, 42, 907–911. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-023-09929-y

Genovesi, C. (2023). A Critical Pragmatic account of prosaic and poetic metaphors. Topoi 42, 947–960. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-023-09899-1

Genovesi, C. (2022). Circle takes the square: A hermeneutical perspective on intercultural pragmatics. In P. Stalmaszczyk and M. Hinton (Eds.), Studies in the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (pp. 133–159). Peter Lang. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b19786

Corazza, E., & Genovesi, C. (2021). The “I” in the Monad: Leibniz and the Essential Indexical. JOLMA, The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, 2(2), 335–352. http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2021/02/004

Corazza, E., & Genovesi, C. (2021). On anaphors linked to names used metaphorically. Organon F, 28(1), 253-268. 1335-0668. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28111

Genovesi, C. (2020). Metaphor and what is meant: Metaphorical content, what is said, and contextualism. Journal of Pragmatics, 157, 17-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2019.11.002

Genovesi, C. (2018).  Au Pays de la métaphore. In K. Bartczak & J. Mácha (Eds.), Wallace Stevens and the Philosophy of Language: Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. Frankfurt am Main. (pp. 95-112). https://doi.org/10.3726/b14736

Genovesi, C. (2018). What is not said: Metaphor and the deflationary account. In A. Baicchi, R. Digonnet, J Sandford (Eds.), Sensory Perceptions in Language, Embodiment and Epistemology: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 42. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91277-6_3

Corazza E., & Genovesi, C. (2018).  On the metaphoric uses of (fictional) proper names.  In P. Stalmaszczyk (Ed.), Studies in the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, 10(1), 41–58.  Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b14249

Work in preparation

Special Issues

Barbosa, E. C., & Genovesi, C. Current issues in Pragmatics: Developments and trends in the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. Guest editors, Manuscrito.

Manuscripts

Genovesi, C. (working paper). Metaphor and embeddability: A response to the ‘Scope Argument’.

Article-length manuscript investigating Gricean-inspired subsentential pragmatics.

Pissani, L., Genovesi, C., & de Almeida, R. G. (working paper). Aptness reduces, but concreteness enhances access to the literal meaning of a metaphor during sentence comprehension.

Article-length manuscript analyzes the effects of familiarity, aptness, and concreteness on metaphor processing.  

Genovesi, C. (working paper). Metaphor & ambiguity: A response to Lane.

Article-length manuscript critically responding to Lane’s (2024) ambiguity theory of metaphor.

de Almeida, R. G., Genovesi, C., & Pissani, L. (working paper). What happened to literal meaning? A methodological review and minimalist proposal on metaphor interpretation.

Article-length manuscript developing a psychological model of metaphor comprehension.

Genovesi, C., Corazza, E., & Hesse, J. (in preparation). Fregean Pragmatics and Figurative language?

Article-length manuscript examining pragmatic aspects of Frege’s philosophy of language.

Genovesi, C., & Perry, J. (in preparation). Minds and Mirrors.

Book-length study dedicated to current cognitive scientific research on self-consciousness.

Pissani, L., Antal, C., Salehi, K., Falcone, A. R., Genovesi, C., & de Almeida, R. G. (in preparation). Where in the brain is “pragmatics”? The case of verbal metaphors in aphasia.

Article-length manuscript on metaphor performance in clinical and nonclinical populations.

de Almeida, R. G., Antal, C., Genovesi, C., & Ungerer, T. (in preparation). What do brains do when they process representations? Symbolic versus Embodied Cognition.

Article-length manuscript that critically examines recent empirical work in embodied cognition and classical symbolic systems.