Paolo Labinaz
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paolo Labinaz plays a role.
2023 Chapter 3. Public disagreements among health experts and their polarizing effects during a pandemic health crisis: A speech-act theoretical perspective A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding, Bigi, Sarah and Maria Grazia Rossi (eds.), pp. 75–103 | Chapter
This paper focuses on the communication styles used by health experts when addressing the public about COVID-19, and the negative effects these styles had on the non-expert public’s ability to understand these issues and make well-informed decisions. Specifically, it examines the use of… read more
2021 Chapter 5. Speech acts and the dissemination of knowledge in social networks Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice, Xie, Chaoqun, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland (eds.), pp. 145–172 | Chapter
This paper analyzes how social network users engaged in discussions under a public post contribute to knowledge dissemination through their verbal behavior in the light of an Austin-based speech-act theoretical framework. We first argue that such a framework can be applied not only to… read more
2018 Argumentation as a dimension of discourse: The case of news articles Cognitive Perspectives on Genre, Vergaro, Carla (ed.), pp. 602–630 | Article
The aim of this paper is to explore the status of argumentative discourse. We argue that argumentation can contribute to instances of different discourse genres, regardless of whether it is functional to their purposes. By analyzing examples from the daily press in the light of an approach to… read more
2014 Certainty and uncertainty in assertive speech acts Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts, Zuczkowski, Andrzej, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari (eds.), pp. 31–58 | Article
We begin by considering three main philosophical accounts of assertion, showing that each emphasizes specific aspects of it while leaving others aside, and then proceed to offering a more comprehensive speech-act theoretic account of assertion, which owes much to Austin’s approach to illocutionary… read more