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Modality in Argumentation

A Semantic Investigation of the Role of Modalities in the Structure of Arguments with an Application to Italian Modal Expressions

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Authors:
  1. Andrea Rocci

    1. Istituto di Argomentazione, Linguistica e Semiotica, Università della Svizzera italiana University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

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  • Explores the role of modal expressions as argumentative indicators by using the Italian modal system as a case study
  • Uses predictions/forecasts in the business-financial daily press to investigate the relation between modality and the context of argumentation
  • A specialist research monograph that could simultaneously provide background information and be used as an inspiration or methodology guide for PhD students?

Part of the book series: Argumentation Library (ARGA, volume 29)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrea Rocci
    Pages 1-32

  3. Meaning and Argumentation

    • Andrea Rocci
    Pages 33-103

  4. Three Views of Modality in Toulmin

    • Andrea Rocci
    Pages 105-196

  5. Relative Modality and Argumentation

    • Andrea Rocci
    Pages 197-274

  6. Types of Conversational Backgrounds and Arguments

    • Andrea Rocci
    Pages 275-369

  7. Case Studies of Italian Modal Constructions in Context

    • Andrea Rocci
    Pages 371-465

  8. Conclusion

    • Andrea Rocci
    Pages 467-482

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 483-488
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About this book

This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmin’s seminal book on the uses of argument. The first question is the one of the relationship between the semantic analysis of modality and the structure of arguments. The second question is the one of the distinctive place, or role, of modality in the fundamental structure of arguments. These two questions concern how modality, as a semantic category, relates to the fundamental structure of arguments. The book addresses modality and argumentation also according to another perspective by looking at how different linguistic modal expressions may be taken as argumentative indicators. It explores the role of modal expressions as argumentative indicators by using the Italian modal system as a case study. At the same time, it uses predictions/forecasts in the business-financial daily press to investigate the relation between modality and the context of argumentation.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Istituto di Argomentazione, Linguistica e Semiotica, Università della Svizzera italiana University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

    Andrea Rocci

About the author

Andrea Rocci is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics at the Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano). He is also Director of the Master programme in Financial Communication offered jointly by the faculties of Economics and Communication Sciences at the same university. He has published extensively in the fields of argumentation, pragmatics, semantics and discourse analysis. He is co-author (with Marcel Danesi) of a textbook on Global linguistics. He has directed / is directing several projects on argumentation in the contexts of journalism, corporate communication and financial communication funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Modality in Argumentation

  • Book Subtitle: A Semantic Investigation of the Role of Modalities in the Structure of Arguments with an Application to Italian Modal Expressions

  • Authors: Andrea Rocci

  • Series Title: Argumentation Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1063-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1061-7Published: 17 March 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1480-6Published: 18 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1063-1Published: 08 March 2017

  • Series ISSN: 1566-7650

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1907

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 488

  • Number of Illustrations: 66 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Semantics, Logic, Philosophy of Language, Sociolinguistics

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