Il disaccordo fa parte della vita quotidiana, delle organizzazioni, delle imprese, delle famiglie... more Il disaccordo fa parte della vita quotidiana, delle organizzazioni, delle imprese, delle famiglie, della politica.
L’alternativa all’escalation del conflitto è il dialogo, volto a percorrere la via della comprensione poiché la pace non è l’assenza di disaccordo, ma la sua gestione fondata sull’ascolto delle ragioni.
Il volume offre conoscenze e strumenti per gestire i conflitti attraverso il dialogo e la comunicazione, sia per chi vi è direttamente coinvolto sia per chi svolge il ruolo di mediatore.
La prospettiva è multidisciplinare: l’analisi del discorso e l’argomentazione, ma anche la psicologia, la teoria del conflitto e la mediazione sono richiamate per comprendere una realtà complessa e delicata.
Sono inoltre proposti esempi, approfondimenti e interviste a mediatori e altri professionisti che, formalmente o informalmente, si sono trovati ad agire su conflitti.
Quest’opera pratica e teorica, fondata sulla ricerca e sull’esperienza, è una risorsa per chi vuole rendere il cambiamento possibile anche nelle situazioni più tese.
Mediatori, politici, diplomatici, manager, operatori ma anche educatori e insegnanti vi troveranno ispirazione e sostegno.
This book investigates the role of inference in argumentation, considering how arguments support ... more This book investigates the role of inference in argumentation, considering how arguments support standpoints on the basis of different loci. The authors propose and illustrate a model for the analysis of the standpoint-argument connection, called Argumentum Model of Topics (AMT). A prominent feature of the AMT is that it distinguishes, within each and every single argumentation, between an inferential-procedural component, on which the reasoning process is based; and a material-contextual component, which anchors the argument in the interlocutors' cultural and factual common ground. The AMT explains how these components differ and how they are intertwined within each single argument. This model is introduced in Part II of the book, following a careful reconstruction of the enormously rich tradition of studies on inference in argumentation, from the antiquity to contemporary authors, without neglecting medieval and post-medieval contributions. The AMT is a contemporary model grounded in a dialogue with such tradition, whose crucial aspects are illuminated in this book.
Discourse permeates human life, manifesting itself in all kinds of speech acts, from conversation... more Discourse permeates human life, manifesting itself in all kinds of speech acts, from conversations to clinical dialogues between a patient and practitioner. While discourse has been studied within specific disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, and psychology, over the last few decades an autonomous approach, known as Discourse Analysis, has emerged to develop its own theoretical and research agendas aimed at penetrating the nature and role of discourse in human life. This collection of case studies in discourse aims to examine these agendas in specific situations, and thus to contribute to the growing significance of this exciting field of inquiry. It thus presents a composite picture of what discourse analysis is and what it allows us to do in the area of speech analysis. The chapters deal with the kinds of discourses that characterize medical communication, media and public discourse, conflict resolution and reconciliation, juridical communication, gastronomical language, text messaging, education, and others. Written by active researchers in the fields of discourse analysis proper and its correlative field of argumentation theory, both the expert and the neophyte will be able to glean from the various chapters how this new discipline is evolving and what it can achieve in shedding light on the complexities of human interaction.
Table of Contents
Preface
Marcel Danesi
Discourse, Dialogue, and Conversation: A Schematic Overview
Eddo Rigotti and Rudi Palmieri
Solomon’s Wise Judgment: A Case Study of Argumentation in Context
Elizabeth Bolton
The Nature of the Personal Response to Literature: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Undergraduate Students’ Written Responses to Traditional Literature and Short Realistic Fiction
Frank Nuessel
Clinical Discourse Analysis and Alzheimer's Disease: Overview and Recommendations
Mariana Bockarova
Understanding Work Group Stress in the Workplace: A Discourse Analytic Approach
Emma Cooper
Designing an Interview Protocol Focusing on Teachers’ Experiences Using Semiotic Theory in the Elementary Classroom: An Instrumental Case Study
Laura Di Chiaro
Discourse Analysis of a Sex Education Controversy: A Modern Perspective
Heba Elsherief
Can Safie Speak? On Reading the “Runaway Muslim Woman” Topos
Brigid Kelso
“I’ve Got Enough on My Plate. I Don't Need the Stress, Thanks:” Power Negotiation in a Faculty-Student Email Exchange
Ahmad Khanlari
The Discourse of “Love” in Persian and English Literature: A Comparison of Hafez’s Lyrics and Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Susan Zahradnik
Txtese: Gr8 or not 2 Gr8? Up 2 U 2 Decide
Nakia Lee-Foon
It’s Not What You Say But How You Say It, It’s Not What You Say But What You Don’t: Exploring Parent-Youth Sexual Health Discourse
Nicole Najda
Aphasic to Aphasic Interaction
Maria Xenitidou and Ifigeneia Kokkali
The Regularities of Migration? Thematic and Discursive Interplay in the Talk of Greeks and Albanians in Greece
Nanon H. M. Labrie
Patients’ Arguments for Adherence: A Thematic Discourse Analysis of Open-Ended Survey Responses
Johanna Miecznikowski
“An Experience That Apparently Differs a Lot from Mine”. Evidentials in Discourse: The Case of Gastronomic Discussions
Steve Oswald and Thierry Herman
Argumentation, Conspiracy and the Moon: A Rhetorical-Pragmatic Analysis
Kyoko Murakami
Discursively Managing Sensitivity: A Case of Anglo-Japanese Reconciliation over the Second World War
Sara Greco
Framing and Reframing in Dispute Mediation: An Argumentative Perspective
Stacy Costa
The Discourse of Gamification of the Curriculum in the 21st Century and Its Relation to Assessment and Student Outcomes
Sara Cigada
Analyzing Emotions in French Discourse: (Manipulative?) Shortcuts
Sara Rubinelli and Julia Amann
Critical Health Literacy through the Lens of Argumentation Theory
“Sara Greco-Morasso is a prominent member of a group of young scholars that are spearheading re... more “Sara Greco-Morasso is a prominent member of a group of young scholars that are spearheading research into the role of argumentation in a variety of concrete social, cultural and professional contexts and practices. Her book on the role of argumentation in mediation shines for theoretical finesse and for attention to detail in examining real practices and authentic conversational data. The palette of theoretical and methodological tools put to good use in the book is impressive, and most notably includes the use of lexical semantics in the clarification of key domain terms (like conflict) and the application of loci (topics) to the analysis of the inferential configurations of the arguments used by mediators.
With this sensitive and well informed book, argumentation quietly reclaims a domain that is naturally its own: the use of reason in dialogue to restore jeopardized relationships.”
Andrea Rocci, Università Della Svizzera Italiana (USI)
“A specific strength of this brilliant work is the very refined analysis of conflicts in their argumentative but also human, emotional as well as cognitive dimensions. In the actual practice of conflict resolution, these elements mutually scaffold each other for better or for worse. The reader will find a very detailed account of how the process of argumentation is co-constructed in the context of dispute mediation. In other words, this book re-reads the tenets of conflict resolution from a communicative viewpoint, showing how the fundamental principles of mediation are realized by means of the mediator’s contribution to the parties’ argumentative discussion. The consideration of the disputants' interests (guaranteed by the mediator) builds the necessary trust for them to shift from conflict to cooperation and opens the way to enter into a sound argumentative process. The mediator's argumentative awareness is a key-element in this respect: it enhances the possibility to reframe the problem and helps the parties build a creative solution to their problem. This very well informed book will fascinate all those who are interested in understanding argumentation and conflict mediation in context.”
Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, University of Neuchâtel
As the title Advanced perspectives and open questions suggests, Chap. 7 critically positions the ... more As the title Advanced perspectives and open questions suggests, Chap. 7 critically positions the Argumentum Model of Topics (AMT) in a broader context by taking open questions and relevant theoretical and methodological issues into consideration. Central to this chapter is the presentation of the AMT typology of loci: each locus is described in detail and some examples are briefly discussed, by which considerations that stem from the historical overview provided in the first part of this volume are integrated. We critically explicate the rationale of the AMT typology and its limits. Other theoretical issues tackled in this chapter include the connection between semantic analysis and AMT analysis, the rationale of the locus-maxim multiple relations, a discussion on the theoretical “province” of loci and on the heuristical value of the AMT, as well as a brief opening on the AMT in argument mining.
L’intersubjectivite en questions: Agregat ou nouveau concept federateur pour la psychologie?, C. ... more L’intersubjectivite en questions: Agregat ou nouveau concept federateur pour la psychologie?, C. Moro, N. Muller Mirza, P. Roman (Eds.), Antipodes, Lausanne, 2014. ISBN 978-2-88901-51-6, 394 pp. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scoms.2015.03.013
ABSTRACT How can argumentation skills be improved by engaging students in argumentative practices... more ABSTRACT How can argumentation skills be improved by engaging students in argumentative practices where they are helped to assume a healthy critical attitude, and provide reasons for their positions? What are the synergies of learning to argue and arguing to learn (see chapter “Argumentation and Learning,” B. Schwarz)? This paper originates from these questions, and relies on the experience of teaching argumentation at university level, in the framework of the Swiss Virtual Campus project Argumentum (http://www.argumentum.ch). After presenting the aim and structure of Argumentum, this study focuses on a specific experience of argument production and analysis, occurred in the pedagogical scenario of argumentation classes at master level, at the University of Lugano. Students were asked to assume a specific position within a debate inspired by a famous historical controversy. Two different tools for constructing and analyzing arguments (see chapter “Argumentation as an object of interest and as a social and cultural resource,” E. Rigotti and S. Greco Morasso) were introduced within this didactical experience, allowing a progressively more comprehensive approach to argumentative interventions, including the production of an argumentative intervention, and the analysis and evaluation of arguments. The online course Argumentum provided the technical platform for this exercise of argumentation. Finally, the paper elaborates on the lessons learned by this experience.
This paper investigates how to reconstruct and evaluate argumentation in the context of Italian f... more This paper investigates how to reconstruct and evaluate argumentation in the context of Italian family conversations. By means of a case study, we show how understanding context is essential for the analytical reconstruction of argumentation. Within conversations at dinnertime, we rely on insights from Conversation and Discourse Analysis in order to interpret context-bound communicative and argumentative moves among family members. The analysis of the family exchange offers to us a view of how argumentation shapes the communicative practices occurring at dinnertime and how it can foster a critic
Examining a multilingual dataset of Twitter and Instagram messages posted by a variety of actors ... more Examining a multilingual dataset of Twitter and Instagram messages posted by a variety of actors (NGOs and individual activists, small brands, and others) during the 2020 and 2021 Fashion Revolution Week campaigns for a more sustainable fashion system, we analyze frequently occurring discursive representations and self-representations that include individual mentions of persons or small brands. We show that individual mentions are mostly proposed in the tweets and Instagram messages posted by small brands and that they count as argumentation from example. Arguments based on a locus from example are part of two simultaneous argumentative patterns, responding to different issues and using two different maxims, respectively based on induction and from a principle ‘from truth to possibility’; in the latter case, brands represent themselves as best practice cases, showing that a more sustainable fashion system is possible because it is already happening. Our findings contribute to explaining how the activity type of digital activism successfully integrates multiple goals of different actors (citizens, NGOs, brands) in the campaigning by offering the possibility of simultaneous argumentation.
This chapter presents the multifaceted situation of the evolution (and involution) of the study o... more This chapter presents the multifaceted situation of the evolution (and involution) of the study of inference and topics after the Middle Ages, starting with the era of Renaissance Humanism. In these centuries, several figures in the cultural debate (Lorenzo Valla, Rodolphus Agricola, Philipp Melanchthon, Johannes Caesarius, Petrus Ramus—Pierre de la Ramee and Ralph Lever are part of our selection) highlighted the educational value of dialectic and topics. Some of them chose to write in vernacular languages, while others wrote in Latin; all this bears witness to a widespread cultural interest in the study of arguments in Europe. Although not all these authors go in the direction of a better understanding of inference in argumentation, some important advances and intuitions emerge in the analysis of single arguments, in the creation of new classifications of loci, and in the reinterpretation of the role of inference within and without argumentation. The chapter is closed on a somewhat negative note, as we consider the decline of the topical tradition in continental Europe.
In the current urge for sustainable policies, public institutions such as the European Union or N... more In the current urge for sustainable policies, public institutions such as the European Union or NGOs have denounced the lack of sustainability in the fashion industry. Sustainability is then defined both in terms of environmental impact of materials, products and processes, and in terms of violations of human rights in the supply chain. Critics argue, however, that the arguments for fashion sustainability are not widely accepted, as some unsustainable practices continue “undisturbed” in the fashion industry. In front of such a situation of potential impasse, it is important to ask the question why these appeals for sustainability are not accepted and/or not acted upon. This paper sets out to make a contribution to this research question, by investigating discourses on fashion sustainability by different involved stakeholders (public institutions, NGOs, companies, private citizens) on different platforms (websites, media, social media). We will identify the main gaps in discourses of these different stakeholders, looking in particular at (a) misalignments as to the definition of discussion issues, in particular how the concept of sustainability is defined and what is seen as problematic; (b) conflicting frames concerning agentivity and responsibility for actions that could ensure such sustainability. The goal of this empirical study is to make sense of where the main problems in the controversy on fashion sustainability are to be located, ultimately in order to contribute to suggesting how to redefine the public discussion on this topic in view of avoiding impasse
Il disaccordo fa parte della vita quotidiana, delle organizzazioni, delle imprese, delle famiglie... more Il disaccordo fa parte della vita quotidiana, delle organizzazioni, delle imprese, delle famiglie, della politica.
L’alternativa all’escalation del conflitto è il dialogo, volto a percorrere la via della comprensione poiché la pace non è l’assenza di disaccordo, ma la sua gestione fondata sull’ascolto delle ragioni.
Il volume offre conoscenze e strumenti per gestire i conflitti attraverso il dialogo e la comunicazione, sia per chi vi è direttamente coinvolto sia per chi svolge il ruolo di mediatore.
La prospettiva è multidisciplinare: l’analisi del discorso e l’argomentazione, ma anche la psicologia, la teoria del conflitto e la mediazione sono richiamate per comprendere una realtà complessa e delicata.
Sono inoltre proposti esempi, approfondimenti e interviste a mediatori e altri professionisti che, formalmente o informalmente, si sono trovati ad agire su conflitti.
Quest’opera pratica e teorica, fondata sulla ricerca e sull’esperienza, è una risorsa per chi vuole rendere il cambiamento possibile anche nelle situazioni più tese.
Mediatori, politici, diplomatici, manager, operatori ma anche educatori e insegnanti vi troveranno ispirazione e sostegno.
This book investigates the role of inference in argumentation, considering how arguments support ... more This book investigates the role of inference in argumentation, considering how arguments support standpoints on the basis of different loci. The authors propose and illustrate a model for the analysis of the standpoint-argument connection, called Argumentum Model of Topics (AMT). A prominent feature of the AMT is that it distinguishes, within each and every single argumentation, between an inferential-procedural component, on which the reasoning process is based; and a material-contextual component, which anchors the argument in the interlocutors' cultural and factual common ground. The AMT explains how these components differ and how they are intertwined within each single argument. This model is introduced in Part II of the book, following a careful reconstruction of the enormously rich tradition of studies on inference in argumentation, from the antiquity to contemporary authors, without neglecting medieval and post-medieval contributions. The AMT is a contemporary model grounded in a dialogue with such tradition, whose crucial aspects are illuminated in this book.
Discourse permeates human life, manifesting itself in all kinds of speech acts, from conversation... more Discourse permeates human life, manifesting itself in all kinds of speech acts, from conversations to clinical dialogues between a patient and practitioner. While discourse has been studied within specific disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, and psychology, over the last few decades an autonomous approach, known as Discourse Analysis, has emerged to develop its own theoretical and research agendas aimed at penetrating the nature and role of discourse in human life. This collection of case studies in discourse aims to examine these agendas in specific situations, and thus to contribute to the growing significance of this exciting field of inquiry. It thus presents a composite picture of what discourse analysis is and what it allows us to do in the area of speech analysis. The chapters deal with the kinds of discourses that characterize medical communication, media and public discourse, conflict resolution and reconciliation, juridical communication, gastronomical language, text messaging, education, and others. Written by active researchers in the fields of discourse analysis proper and its correlative field of argumentation theory, both the expert and the neophyte will be able to glean from the various chapters how this new discipline is evolving and what it can achieve in shedding light on the complexities of human interaction.
Table of Contents
Preface
Marcel Danesi
Discourse, Dialogue, and Conversation: A Schematic Overview
Eddo Rigotti and Rudi Palmieri
Solomon’s Wise Judgment: A Case Study of Argumentation in Context
Elizabeth Bolton
The Nature of the Personal Response to Literature: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Undergraduate Students’ Written Responses to Traditional Literature and Short Realistic Fiction
Frank Nuessel
Clinical Discourse Analysis and Alzheimer's Disease: Overview and Recommendations
Mariana Bockarova
Understanding Work Group Stress in the Workplace: A Discourse Analytic Approach
Emma Cooper
Designing an Interview Protocol Focusing on Teachers’ Experiences Using Semiotic Theory in the Elementary Classroom: An Instrumental Case Study
Laura Di Chiaro
Discourse Analysis of a Sex Education Controversy: A Modern Perspective
Heba Elsherief
Can Safie Speak? On Reading the “Runaway Muslim Woman” Topos
Brigid Kelso
“I’ve Got Enough on My Plate. I Don't Need the Stress, Thanks:” Power Negotiation in a Faculty-Student Email Exchange
Ahmad Khanlari
The Discourse of “Love” in Persian and English Literature: A Comparison of Hafez’s Lyrics and Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Susan Zahradnik
Txtese: Gr8 or not 2 Gr8? Up 2 U 2 Decide
Nakia Lee-Foon
It’s Not What You Say But How You Say It, It’s Not What You Say But What You Don’t: Exploring Parent-Youth Sexual Health Discourse
Nicole Najda
Aphasic to Aphasic Interaction
Maria Xenitidou and Ifigeneia Kokkali
The Regularities of Migration? Thematic and Discursive Interplay in the Talk of Greeks and Albanians in Greece
Nanon H. M. Labrie
Patients’ Arguments for Adherence: A Thematic Discourse Analysis of Open-Ended Survey Responses
Johanna Miecznikowski
“An Experience That Apparently Differs a Lot from Mine”. Evidentials in Discourse: The Case of Gastronomic Discussions
Steve Oswald and Thierry Herman
Argumentation, Conspiracy and the Moon: A Rhetorical-Pragmatic Analysis
Kyoko Murakami
Discursively Managing Sensitivity: A Case of Anglo-Japanese Reconciliation over the Second World War
Sara Greco
Framing and Reframing in Dispute Mediation: An Argumentative Perspective
Stacy Costa
The Discourse of Gamification of the Curriculum in the 21st Century and Its Relation to Assessment and Student Outcomes
Sara Cigada
Analyzing Emotions in French Discourse: (Manipulative?) Shortcuts
Sara Rubinelli and Julia Amann
Critical Health Literacy through the Lens of Argumentation Theory
“Sara Greco-Morasso is a prominent member of a group of young scholars that are spearheading re... more “Sara Greco-Morasso is a prominent member of a group of young scholars that are spearheading research into the role of argumentation in a variety of concrete social, cultural and professional contexts and practices. Her book on the role of argumentation in mediation shines for theoretical finesse and for attention to detail in examining real practices and authentic conversational data. The palette of theoretical and methodological tools put to good use in the book is impressive, and most notably includes the use of lexical semantics in the clarification of key domain terms (like conflict) and the application of loci (topics) to the analysis of the inferential configurations of the arguments used by mediators.
With this sensitive and well informed book, argumentation quietly reclaims a domain that is naturally its own: the use of reason in dialogue to restore jeopardized relationships.”
Andrea Rocci, Università Della Svizzera Italiana (USI)
“A specific strength of this brilliant work is the very refined analysis of conflicts in their argumentative but also human, emotional as well as cognitive dimensions. In the actual practice of conflict resolution, these elements mutually scaffold each other for better or for worse. The reader will find a very detailed account of how the process of argumentation is co-constructed in the context of dispute mediation. In other words, this book re-reads the tenets of conflict resolution from a communicative viewpoint, showing how the fundamental principles of mediation are realized by means of the mediator’s contribution to the parties’ argumentative discussion. The consideration of the disputants' interests (guaranteed by the mediator) builds the necessary trust for them to shift from conflict to cooperation and opens the way to enter into a sound argumentative process. The mediator's argumentative awareness is a key-element in this respect: it enhances the possibility to reframe the problem and helps the parties build a creative solution to their problem. This very well informed book will fascinate all those who are interested in understanding argumentation and conflict mediation in context.”
Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, University of Neuchâtel
As the title Advanced perspectives and open questions suggests, Chap. 7 critically positions the ... more As the title Advanced perspectives and open questions suggests, Chap. 7 critically positions the Argumentum Model of Topics (AMT) in a broader context by taking open questions and relevant theoretical and methodological issues into consideration. Central to this chapter is the presentation of the AMT typology of loci: each locus is described in detail and some examples are briefly discussed, by which considerations that stem from the historical overview provided in the first part of this volume are integrated. We critically explicate the rationale of the AMT typology and its limits. Other theoretical issues tackled in this chapter include the connection between semantic analysis and AMT analysis, the rationale of the locus-maxim multiple relations, a discussion on the theoretical “province” of loci and on the heuristical value of the AMT, as well as a brief opening on the AMT in argument mining.
L’intersubjectivite en questions: Agregat ou nouveau concept federateur pour la psychologie?, C. ... more L’intersubjectivite en questions: Agregat ou nouveau concept federateur pour la psychologie?, C. Moro, N. Muller Mirza, P. Roman (Eds.), Antipodes, Lausanne, 2014. ISBN 978-2-88901-51-6, 394 pp. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scoms.2015.03.013
ABSTRACT How can argumentation skills be improved by engaging students in argumentative practices... more ABSTRACT How can argumentation skills be improved by engaging students in argumentative practices where they are helped to assume a healthy critical attitude, and provide reasons for their positions? What are the synergies of learning to argue and arguing to learn (see chapter “Argumentation and Learning,” B. Schwarz)? This paper originates from these questions, and relies on the experience of teaching argumentation at university level, in the framework of the Swiss Virtual Campus project Argumentum (http://www.argumentum.ch). After presenting the aim and structure of Argumentum, this study focuses on a specific experience of argument production and analysis, occurred in the pedagogical scenario of argumentation classes at master level, at the University of Lugano. Students were asked to assume a specific position within a debate inspired by a famous historical controversy. Two different tools for constructing and analyzing arguments (see chapter “Argumentation as an object of interest and as a social and cultural resource,” E. Rigotti and S. Greco Morasso) were introduced within this didactical experience, allowing a progressively more comprehensive approach to argumentative interventions, including the production of an argumentative intervention, and the analysis and evaluation of arguments. The online course Argumentum provided the technical platform for this exercise of argumentation. Finally, the paper elaborates on the lessons learned by this experience.
This paper investigates how to reconstruct and evaluate argumentation in the context of Italian f... more This paper investigates how to reconstruct and evaluate argumentation in the context of Italian family conversations. By means of a case study, we show how understanding context is essential for the analytical reconstruction of argumentation. Within conversations at dinnertime, we rely on insights from Conversation and Discourse Analysis in order to interpret context-bound communicative and argumentative moves among family members. The analysis of the family exchange offers to us a view of how argumentation shapes the communicative practices occurring at dinnertime and how it can foster a critic
Examining a multilingual dataset of Twitter and Instagram messages posted by a variety of actors ... more Examining a multilingual dataset of Twitter and Instagram messages posted by a variety of actors (NGOs and individual activists, small brands, and others) during the 2020 and 2021 Fashion Revolution Week campaigns for a more sustainable fashion system, we analyze frequently occurring discursive representations and self-representations that include individual mentions of persons or small brands. We show that individual mentions are mostly proposed in the tweets and Instagram messages posted by small brands and that they count as argumentation from example. Arguments based on a locus from example are part of two simultaneous argumentative patterns, responding to different issues and using two different maxims, respectively based on induction and from a principle ‘from truth to possibility’; in the latter case, brands represent themselves as best practice cases, showing that a more sustainable fashion system is possible because it is already happening. Our findings contribute to explaining how the activity type of digital activism successfully integrates multiple goals of different actors (citizens, NGOs, brands) in the campaigning by offering the possibility of simultaneous argumentation.
This chapter presents the multifaceted situation of the evolution (and involution) of the study o... more This chapter presents the multifaceted situation of the evolution (and involution) of the study of inference and topics after the Middle Ages, starting with the era of Renaissance Humanism. In these centuries, several figures in the cultural debate (Lorenzo Valla, Rodolphus Agricola, Philipp Melanchthon, Johannes Caesarius, Petrus Ramus—Pierre de la Ramee and Ralph Lever are part of our selection) highlighted the educational value of dialectic and topics. Some of them chose to write in vernacular languages, while others wrote in Latin; all this bears witness to a widespread cultural interest in the study of arguments in Europe. Although not all these authors go in the direction of a better understanding of inference in argumentation, some important advances and intuitions emerge in the analysis of single arguments, in the creation of new classifications of loci, and in the reinterpretation of the role of inference within and without argumentation. The chapter is closed on a somewhat negative note, as we consider the decline of the topical tradition in continental Europe.
In the current urge for sustainable policies, public institutions such as the European Union or N... more In the current urge for sustainable policies, public institutions such as the European Union or NGOs have denounced the lack of sustainability in the fashion industry. Sustainability is then defined both in terms of environmental impact of materials, products and processes, and in terms of violations of human rights in the supply chain. Critics argue, however, that the arguments for fashion sustainability are not widely accepted, as some unsustainable practices continue “undisturbed” in the fashion industry. In front of such a situation of potential impasse, it is important to ask the question why these appeals for sustainability are not accepted and/or not acted upon. This paper sets out to make a contribution to this research question, by investigating discourses on fashion sustainability by different involved stakeholders (public institutions, NGOs, companies, private citizens) on different platforms (websites, media, social media). We will identify the main gaps in discourses of these different stakeholders, looking in particular at (a) misalignments as to the definition of discussion issues, in particular how the concept of sustainability is defined and what is seen as problematic; (b) conflicting frames concerning agentivity and responsibility for actions that could ensure such sustainability. The goal of this empirical study is to make sense of where the main problems in the controversy on fashion sustainability are to be located, ultimately in order to contribute to suggesting how to redefine the public discussion on this topic in view of avoiding impasse
Examining a multilingual dataset of Twitter and Instagram messages posted by a variety of actors ... more Examining a multilingual dataset of Twitter and Instagram messages posted by a variety of actors (NGOs and individual activists, small brands, and others) during the 2020 and 2021 Fashion Revolution Week campaigns for a more sustainable fashion system, we analyze frequently occurring discursive representations and self-representations that include individual mentions of persons or small brands. We show that individual mentions are mostly proposed in the tweets and Instagram messages posted by small brands and that they count as argumentation from example. Arguments based on a locus from example are part of two simultaneous argumentative patterns, responding to different issues and using two different maxims, respectively based on induction and from a principle ‘from truth to possibility’; in the latter case, brands represent themselves as best practice cases, showing that a more sustainable fashion system is possible because it is already happening. Our findings contribute to explai...
Basing on the Argumentum Model of Topics (AMT) within the general framework of a pragma-dialectic... more Basing on the Argumentum Model of Topics (AMT) within the general framework of a pragma-dialectical viewpoint on argumentation, this paper analyses the role of argumentation from analogy in international migrants’ decision-making processes on the basis of a corpus of interviews to migrant mothers resident in the greater London area. Reasoning from analogy allows evaluating pragmatic decisions – such as leaving one’s home country, staying over in a foreign country, etc. –in terms of feasibility and reasonableness.
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L’alternativa all’escalation del conflitto è il dialogo, volto a percorrere la via della comprensione poiché la pace non è l’assenza di disaccordo, ma la sua gestione fondata sull’ascolto delle ragioni.
Il volume offre conoscenze e strumenti per gestire i conflitti attraverso il dialogo e la comunicazione, sia per chi vi è direttamente coinvolto sia per chi svolge il ruolo di mediatore.
La prospettiva è multidisciplinare: l’analisi del discorso e l’argomentazione, ma anche la psicologia, la teoria del conflitto e la mediazione sono richiamate per comprendere una realtà complessa e delicata.
Sono inoltre proposti esempi, approfondimenti e interviste a mediatori e altri professionisti che, formalmente o informalmente, si sono trovati ad agire su conflitti.
Quest’opera pratica e teorica, fondata sulla ricerca e sull’esperienza, è una risorsa per chi vuole rendere il cambiamento possibile anche nelle situazioni più tese.
Mediatori, politici, diplomatici, manager, operatori ma anche educatori e insegnanti vi troveranno ispirazione e sostegno.
Table of Contents
Preface
Marcel Danesi
Discourse, Dialogue, and Conversation: A Schematic Overview
Eddo Rigotti and Rudi Palmieri
Solomon’s Wise Judgment: A Case Study of Argumentation in Context
Elizabeth Bolton
The Nature of the Personal Response to Literature: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Undergraduate Students’ Written Responses to Traditional Literature and Short Realistic Fiction
Frank Nuessel
Clinical Discourse Analysis and Alzheimer's Disease: Overview and Recommendations
Mariana Bockarova
Understanding Work Group Stress in the Workplace: A Discourse Analytic Approach
Emma Cooper
Designing an Interview Protocol Focusing on Teachers’ Experiences Using Semiotic Theory in the Elementary Classroom: An Instrumental Case Study
Laura Di Chiaro
Discourse Analysis of a Sex Education Controversy: A Modern Perspective
Heba Elsherief
Can Safie Speak? On Reading the “Runaway Muslim Woman” Topos
Brigid Kelso
“I’ve Got Enough on My Plate. I Don't Need the Stress, Thanks:” Power Negotiation in a Faculty-Student Email Exchange
Ahmad Khanlari
The Discourse of “Love” in Persian and English Literature: A Comparison of Hafez’s Lyrics and Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Susan Zahradnik
Txtese: Gr8 or not 2 Gr8? Up 2 U 2 Decide
Nakia Lee-Foon
It’s Not What You Say But How You Say It, It’s Not What You Say But What You Don’t: Exploring Parent-Youth Sexual Health Discourse
Nicole Najda
Aphasic to Aphasic Interaction
Maria Xenitidou and Ifigeneia Kokkali
The Regularities of Migration? Thematic and Discursive Interplay in the Talk of Greeks and Albanians in Greece
Nanon H. M. Labrie
Patients’ Arguments for Adherence: A Thematic Discourse Analysis of Open-Ended Survey Responses
Johanna Miecznikowski
“An Experience That Apparently Differs a Lot from Mine”. Evidentials in Discourse: The Case of Gastronomic Discussions
Steve Oswald and Thierry Herman
Argumentation, Conspiracy and the Moon: A Rhetorical-Pragmatic Analysis
Kyoko Murakami
Discursively Managing Sensitivity: A Case of Anglo-Japanese Reconciliation over the Second World War
Sara Greco
Framing and Reframing in Dispute Mediation: An Argumentative Perspective
Stacy Costa
The Discourse of Gamification of the Curriculum in the 21st Century and Its Relation to Assessment and Student Outcomes
Sara Cigada
Analyzing Emotions in French Discourse: (Manipulative?) Shortcuts
Sara Rubinelli and Julia Amann
Critical Health Literacy through the Lens of Argumentation Theory
With this sensitive and well informed book, argumentation quietly reclaims a domain that is naturally its own: the use of reason in dialogue to restore jeopardized relationships.”
Andrea Rocci, Università Della Svizzera Italiana (USI)
“A specific strength of this brilliant work is the very refined analysis of conflicts in their argumentative but also human, emotional as well as cognitive dimensions. In the actual practice of conflict resolution, these elements mutually scaffold each other for better or for worse. The reader will find a very detailed account of how the process of argumentation is co-constructed in the context of dispute mediation. In other words, this book re-reads the tenets of conflict resolution from a communicative viewpoint, showing how the fundamental principles of mediation are realized by means of the mediator’s contribution to the parties’ argumentative discussion. The consideration of the disputants' interests (guaranteed by the mediator) builds the necessary trust for them to shift from conflict to cooperation and opens the way to enter into a sound argumentative process. The mediator's argumentative awareness is a key-element in this respect: it enhances the possibility to reframe the problem and helps the parties build a creative solution to their problem. This very well informed book will fascinate all those who are interested in understanding argumentation and conflict mediation in context.”
Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, University of Neuchâtel
L’alternativa all’escalation del conflitto è il dialogo, volto a percorrere la via della comprensione poiché la pace non è l’assenza di disaccordo, ma la sua gestione fondata sull’ascolto delle ragioni.
Il volume offre conoscenze e strumenti per gestire i conflitti attraverso il dialogo e la comunicazione, sia per chi vi è direttamente coinvolto sia per chi svolge il ruolo di mediatore.
La prospettiva è multidisciplinare: l’analisi del discorso e l’argomentazione, ma anche la psicologia, la teoria del conflitto e la mediazione sono richiamate per comprendere una realtà complessa e delicata.
Sono inoltre proposti esempi, approfondimenti e interviste a mediatori e altri professionisti che, formalmente o informalmente, si sono trovati ad agire su conflitti.
Quest’opera pratica e teorica, fondata sulla ricerca e sull’esperienza, è una risorsa per chi vuole rendere il cambiamento possibile anche nelle situazioni più tese.
Mediatori, politici, diplomatici, manager, operatori ma anche educatori e insegnanti vi troveranno ispirazione e sostegno.
Table of Contents
Preface
Marcel Danesi
Discourse, Dialogue, and Conversation: A Schematic Overview
Eddo Rigotti and Rudi Palmieri
Solomon’s Wise Judgment: A Case Study of Argumentation in Context
Elizabeth Bolton
The Nature of the Personal Response to Literature: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Undergraduate Students’ Written Responses to Traditional Literature and Short Realistic Fiction
Frank Nuessel
Clinical Discourse Analysis and Alzheimer's Disease: Overview and Recommendations
Mariana Bockarova
Understanding Work Group Stress in the Workplace: A Discourse Analytic Approach
Emma Cooper
Designing an Interview Protocol Focusing on Teachers’ Experiences Using Semiotic Theory in the Elementary Classroom: An Instrumental Case Study
Laura Di Chiaro
Discourse Analysis of a Sex Education Controversy: A Modern Perspective
Heba Elsherief
Can Safie Speak? On Reading the “Runaway Muslim Woman” Topos
Brigid Kelso
“I’ve Got Enough on My Plate. I Don't Need the Stress, Thanks:” Power Negotiation in a Faculty-Student Email Exchange
Ahmad Khanlari
The Discourse of “Love” in Persian and English Literature: A Comparison of Hafez’s Lyrics and Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Susan Zahradnik
Txtese: Gr8 or not 2 Gr8? Up 2 U 2 Decide
Nakia Lee-Foon
It’s Not What You Say But How You Say It, It’s Not What You Say But What You Don’t: Exploring Parent-Youth Sexual Health Discourse
Nicole Najda
Aphasic to Aphasic Interaction
Maria Xenitidou and Ifigeneia Kokkali
The Regularities of Migration? Thematic and Discursive Interplay in the Talk of Greeks and Albanians in Greece
Nanon H. M. Labrie
Patients’ Arguments for Adherence: A Thematic Discourse Analysis of Open-Ended Survey Responses
Johanna Miecznikowski
“An Experience That Apparently Differs a Lot from Mine”. Evidentials in Discourse: The Case of Gastronomic Discussions
Steve Oswald and Thierry Herman
Argumentation, Conspiracy and the Moon: A Rhetorical-Pragmatic Analysis
Kyoko Murakami
Discursively Managing Sensitivity: A Case of Anglo-Japanese Reconciliation over the Second World War
Sara Greco
Framing and Reframing in Dispute Mediation: An Argumentative Perspective
Stacy Costa
The Discourse of Gamification of the Curriculum in the 21st Century and Its Relation to Assessment and Student Outcomes
Sara Cigada
Analyzing Emotions in French Discourse: (Manipulative?) Shortcuts
Sara Rubinelli and Julia Amann
Critical Health Literacy through the Lens of Argumentation Theory
With this sensitive and well informed book, argumentation quietly reclaims a domain that is naturally its own: the use of reason in dialogue to restore jeopardized relationships.”
Andrea Rocci, Università Della Svizzera Italiana (USI)
“A specific strength of this brilliant work is the very refined analysis of conflicts in their argumentative but also human, emotional as well as cognitive dimensions. In the actual practice of conflict resolution, these elements mutually scaffold each other for better or for worse. The reader will find a very detailed account of how the process of argumentation is co-constructed in the context of dispute mediation. In other words, this book re-reads the tenets of conflict resolution from a communicative viewpoint, showing how the fundamental principles of mediation are realized by means of the mediator’s contribution to the parties’ argumentative discussion. The consideration of the disputants' interests (guaranteed by the mediator) builds the necessary trust for them to shift from conflict to cooperation and opens the way to enter into a sound argumentative process. The mediator's argumentative awareness is a key-element in this respect: it enhances the possibility to reframe the problem and helps the parties build a creative solution to their problem. This very well informed book will fascinate all those who are interested in understanding argumentation and conflict mediation in context.”
Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, University of Neuchâtel