Argumentation and the interpretation of religious texts
Edited by Fabrizio Macagno and Lucia Salvato
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 12:1 (2023) v, 134 pp.
Fabrizio Macagno
List of John Benjamins publications for which Fabrizio Macagno plays a role.
Title
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2023. The boundaries of lying: Casuistry and the pragmatic dimension of interpretation. Argumentation and the interpretation of religious texts, Macagno, Fabrizio and Lucia Salvato (eds.), pp. 19–58
The Holy Scriptures can be considered a specific kind of normative texts, whose use to assess practical moral cases requires interpretation. In the field of ethics, this interpretative problem results in the necessity of bridging the gap between the normative source – moral precepts – and the… read more | Article
2023. Argumentation and the interpretation of religious texts. Argumentation and the interpretation of religious texts, Macagno, Fabrizio and Lucia Salvato (eds.), pp. 2–18
The interpretation of religious texts is an area of research in which rhetoric and the use of arguments play a central role. The analysis of the persuasive message expressed in many biblical passages, the reconstruction of the implicit messages conveyed by the texts, and the justification of an… read more | Introduction
2020. Analyzing dialogue moves in chronic care communication: Dialogical intentions and customization of recommendations for the assessment of medical deliberation. Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:2, pp. 167–198
Dialogue moves are a pragmatic instrument that captures the most important categories of “dialogical intentions.” This paper adapts this tool to the conversational setting of chronic care communication, characterized by the general goal of making reasoned decisions concerning patients’ conditions,… read more | Article
2017. Evidence and presumptions for analyzing and detecting misunderstandings. Pragmatics & Cognition 24:2, pp. 263–296
The detection and analysis of misunderstandings are crucial aspects of discourse analysis, and presuppose a twofold investigation of their structure. First, misunderstandings need to be identified and, more importantly, justified. For this reason, a classification of the types and force of evidence… read more | Article
2011. Reasoning from paradigms and negative evidence. Pragmatics & Cognition 19:1, pp. 92–116
Reasoning from negative evidence takes place where an expected outcome is tested for, and when it is not found, a conclusion is drawn based on the significance of the failure to find it. By using Gricean maxims and implicatures, we show how a set of alternatives, which we call a paradigm, provides… read more | Article