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.
Lucia Salvato
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lucia Salvato plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2023 Argumentation and the interpretation of religious texts Argumentation and the interpretation of religious texts, Macagno, Fabrizio and Lucia Salvato (eds.), pp. 2–18 | Introduction
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
2023 The appeal to religious authority: A case-study Argumentation and the interpretation of religious texts, Macagno, Fabrizio and Lucia Salvato (eds.), pp. 77–115 | Article
This paper analyzes a particular type of support that religious authorities use in their argumentative monologues on moral and theological matters. In particular, the argumentative monologue given by Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI during his 2011 visit to the federal parliament in the… read more
2014 The communication of certainty/uncertainty within a Gospel passage (John 9:1-41) Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between, Cantarini, Sibilla, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. 327–341 | Article
This paper explores an argumentative discourse taken from John’s Gospel. The intention is to investigate the way speakers express their individual degree of certainty/uncertainty towards the piece of information they are giving or receiving. The paper analyzes the speakers’ different attitudes… read more