Giuseppe Mininni
List of John Benjamins publications for which Giuseppe Mininni plays a role.
2014 The dialogic construction of certainty in legal contexts Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue, Zuczkowski, Andrzej (ed.), pp. 112–131 | Article
The contexts of legal communication are characterized by the maximum strain between the spread of doubtfulness and the aspiration to certainty. The distance between the versions of events proposed by prosecution and defense is clear evidence of the sense-making dynamic that marks the human… read more
2014 Rhetorics of (un)certainty in religious discourse Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between, Cantarini, Sibilla, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. 343–362 | Article
Religious belief is an emotional attitude that is not based on a “certain” experience. Adolescence is a very uncertain stage of life and an unstable faith can mirror this turbulence. The aim of this work is to investigate the discursive construction of religious experience in late adolescence. We… read more
2008 Diatexts of media dilemmas: The rhetorical construction of euthanasia Dialogue and Rhetoric, Weigand, Edda (ed.), pp. 235–250 | Article
In the post-modern era the global conscience has to deal with various dilemmas, which are made more complex by media interaction. These issues mostly pertain to the bioethical sphere of human experience, i.e. the discursive sphere linked to the necessity to overcome any interpretative routine of… read more
2001 Interlocutionary scenarios as negotiation of diatextual power Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction, Weigand, Edda and Marcelo Dascal † (eds.), pp. 107–122 | Article