Modality in Argumentation

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

Andrea Rocci (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

488 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-024-1061-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Meaning and argumentation.- Chapter 2: Three views of modality in Toulmin.- Chapter 3: Relative modality and argumentation.- Chapter 4: Types of conversational backgrounds and arguments.- Chapter 5: Case studies of Italian modal constructions in context.- Conclusion.- Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	Argumentation Library ; 29
Zusatzinfo	66 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 488 p. 66 illus.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Analysis of Argumentative Discourse • Argumentation in Economic-Financial News • Argumentative Analysis of Financial News • Argumentative Indicators and Modality • Context Dependency of Modality • Context-Dependent Linguistic Semantics • Context-Dependent Semantics of Modal Expressions • Deontic-Practical Modalities • Emptiness of Logical Modalities • Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality • Intersubjective Epistemic Modality • Linguistic Marking Of Knowledge Sources • Modal Analysis of Evidential Expressions • Modalities and Argumentation Structure • Modalities as Connectives • Modalities as Operators • Modality And Argumentative Loci • Modality and Equivocation • Modal Qualifiers and the Layout of Arguments • Toulmin’s Model of Modal Context Dependency
ISBN-10	94-024-1061-9 / 9402410619
ISBN-13	978-94-024-1061-7 / 9789402410617
Zustand	Neuware