born 1946, is full professor in General Psychology at the University of Macerata (Italy), Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, where he teaches Cognitive Psychology. He is Direc-tor of the Research Centre for Psychology of Communication. He was formed in Gestalt psychology and experimental phenomenology, in linguis-tics and in Transactional Analysis psychotherapy. His main scientific and research interests concern the semantic interpretation of texts, the pragmatics of dialogues (professional and non-professional), the relationship between language and phenomenal reality. With regard to the third topic, he has been studying the epistemic and evidential aspects in written and spoken corpora.