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.
| ISBN: | 9789402410617 |
| Publication date: | 17th March 2017 |
| Author: | Andrea Rocci |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Netherlands |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 488 pages |
| Series: | Argumentation Library |
| Genres: |
Semiotics / semiology Philosophy: logic Philosophy of language Sociolinguistics |
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.
Modality in Argumentation features in the following genres: Semiotics / semiology, Philosophy: logic, Philosophy of language, Sociolinguistics
Modality in Argumentation is available in Hardback
Modality in Argumentation was written by Andrea Rocci and published by Springer an imprint of Springer Netherlands
Modality in Argumentation has 488 pages
Yes it is part of Argumentation Library series