Andrea Rocci

List of John Benjamins publications for which Andrea Rocci plays a role.

Book series

Journal

Titles

Argumentation and Meaning: Semantic and pragmatic reflexions

Edited by Steve Oswald, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli and Andrea Rocci

Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1 (2020) v, 166 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Argumentation in Journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere

Edited by Corina Andone and Andrea Rocci

Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 5:1 (2016) v, 111 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Articles

Oswald, Steve, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli and Andrea Rocci 2020 Argumentation and meaningArgumentation and Meaning: Semantic and pragmatic reflexions, Oswald, Steve, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli and Andrea Rocci (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
This special issue aims to explore the semantic and pragmatic dimensions of meaning in terms of their significance and relevance in the study of argumentation. Accordingly, the contributors to the project, who have all presented their work during the 2nd Argumentation and Language conference,… read more
Rocci, Andrea, Sara Greco, Rebecca G. Schär, Josephine Convertini, Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont and Antonio Iannaccone 2020 The significance of the adversative connectives aber, mais, ma (‘but’) as indicators in young children’s argumentationArgumentation and Meaning: Semantic and pragmatic reflexions, Oswald, Steve, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli and Andrea Rocci (eds.), pp. 69–94 | Article
Adversative connectives have been analyzed as articulating explicit and implicit facets of argumentative moves and have been thus recognized as potential argumentative indicators. Here we examine adversative connectives Ger. aber, Fr. mais, It. ma (‘but’) in young children’s speech in the context… read more
This article presents the Nineteenth-Century dispute arising from the criticism that the Italian philosopher Antonio Rosmini expressed against the arguments that the statesman Melchiorre Gioja supported in defense of fashion in his Apologia della moda ‘Apology of Fashion’ (1822) and against the… read more
Perret-Clermont, Anne-Nelly, Rebecca G. Schär, Sara Greco, Josephine Convertini, Antonio Iannaccone and Andrea Rocci 2019 Chapter 12. Shifting from a monological to a dialogical perspective on children’s argumentation: Lessons learnedArgumentation in Actual Practice: Topical studies about argumentative discourse in context, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 211–236 | Chapter
Saltamacchia, Francesca and Andrea Rocci 2019 Chapter 2. The Nuovo Galateo (‘New Galateo’, 1802) by Melchiorre Gioja, politeness (pulitezza) and reasonPoliteness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick and Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.), pp. 75–106 | Chapter
In 1802 Melchiorre Gioja published the Nuovo Galateo (‘New Galateo’), a treatise that supplants the aristocratic model based on conventional ceremonies with a model based on ragione sociale ‘social reason’. The word and its morphological derived lexemes play an important role in the argumentative… read more
Andone, Corina and Andrea Rocci 2016 Argumentation in journalism: Professional practices and the public sphereArgumentation in Journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere, Andone, Corina and Andrea Rocci (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
Rocci, Andrea and Margherita Luciani 2016 Economic-financial journalists as argumentative intermediariesArgumentation in Journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere, Andone, Corina and Andrea Rocci (eds.), pp. 88–111 | Article
The paper offers a single-case analysis of newsmaking discourse, considering the source, the writing process and the news product from the vantage point of argumentation. The case study examines how a journalist of the business-finance desk of a generalist newspaper copes with the argumentative and… read more
In this article we present an exploratory investigation of pictorial and multimodal metaphors appearing in print product advertisements; the aim is to ascertain their relevance for the arguments that the ads put forth. Departing from the working hypotheses that advertising is an argumentative… read more
Rocci, Andrea 2009 Doing discourse with possible worldsDiscourse, of Course: An overview of research in discourse studies, Renkema, Jan (ed.), pp. 15–35 | Article
Rigotti, Eddo and Andrea Rocci 2005 9. From argument analysis to cultural keywords (and back again)Argumentation in Practice, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Peter Houtlosser (eds.), pp. 125–142 | Chapter
Armani, Jacopo and Andrea Rocci 2003 Conceptual maps in e-learningInformation Design Journal 11:2/3, pp. 171–184 | Article
The paper presents a design strategy for e-learning hypermedia interfaces based on the notion of conceptual-navigational map. It proposes to analyze the cognitive and communication problems that arise in the use of hypermedia applications with specific goals, such as e-learning courseware modules,… read more