He obtained his Doctorate in linguistics in 1998 at the University of Oxford with a thesis entitled ‘Modality and Discourse’, supervised by Yan Huang and examined by James Higginbotham and Sally McConnell-Ginet.
He published more than 100 papers and authored several monographs on linguistic and philosophical issues, including quotation and reporting, modality, speech acts, explicatures, legal pragmatics, presupposition.
Capone is chief editor of the Springer Science+Business Media book series Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy, Psychology.
[5] Capone co-organized the first and second Pragmasophia international conferences on pragmatics and philosophy, held in Palermo (May 2016) and in Lisbon (September 2018).
[6] In collaboration with Pietro Perconti he has also organized Pragmasophia 3, to be held in Noto, Sicily, in July 2020.