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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Rocci, Andrea (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesArgumentation Library, 29
Subjects
Linguistics.
Logic.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Semantics.
Sociolinguistics.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789402410631
ISSN1566-7650 ;
DOI10.1007/978-94-024-1063-1
Physical DescriptionXI, 488 p. 66 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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