Giovanni Damele
List of John Benjamins publications for which Giovanni Damele plays a role.
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
2016. Adventures of a metaphor: Apian imagery in the history of political thought. Metaphor and Communication, Gola, Elisabetta and Francesca Ervas (eds.), pp. 173–188
This chapter analyses some examples taken from the different versions of the
metaphor of the beehive or the swarm of bees (one of the most popular symbolic
models of human society), with the aim of exploring the relevance of cognitive
and persuasive aspects in this political metaphor. What the… read more | Article