Carla Bazzanella

Carla Bazzanella (Turin, 6 August 1947) is an Italian linguist.
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 has been associate professor of linguistics at the University of Turin, where she teaches both general linguistics and cognitive linguistics.
Bazzanella is a contributor to Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics and Cognition, and Language Sciences. She is also a member of the Società di Linguistica Italiana, the Associazione Italiana di Scienze Cognitive, and the International Pragmatics Association.