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

• Main Author: Rocci, Andrea. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Argumentation Library, 29
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Logic.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Semantics.; Sociolinguistics.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9789402410631
• Physical Description: XI, 488 p. 66 illus. online resource.

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...