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Modality in Argumentation

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Modality in Argumentation

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by Andrea Rocci

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Springer Science]Business Media

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2017

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XI, 488 p. 66 illus., online resource.

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Argumentation Library,1566-7650 ;29

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Series: Argumentation Library,1566-7650 ;29

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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. This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmins 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.

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

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Linguistics

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Logic

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Language and languages, Philosophy

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Semantics

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Linguistics

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Semantics

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Logic

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Philosophy of Language

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Sociolinguistics

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Rocci, Andrea.

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