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.
Johanna Miecznikowski
List of John Benjamins publications for which Johanna Miecznikowski plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2020 At the juncture between evidentiality and argumentation: Evidential verb complementation Argumentation and Meaning: Semantic and pragmatic reflexions, Oswald, Steve, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli and Andrea Rocci (eds.), pp. 42–68 | Article
The contribution discusses the theoretical problem of the relationship between evidentiality and argumentative justification. Within a framework that combines semantic and syntactic analysis with a topics-based approach to argument schemes, it is argued that the functional domains of information… read more
2020 Argumentation and meaning Argumentation 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
2016 Predictions in economic-financial news: Author’s stance and argumentative loci Argumentation in Journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere, Andone, Corina and Andrea Rocci (eds.), pp. 48–73 | Article
Compared to other domains of media discourse, economic-financial news contain a considerable amount of speech acts regarding future events, in particular predictions. This can be explained by their specific institutional context, financial markets, where investors constantly seek to single out… read more
2007 The attenuating conditional: Context, appropriateness and interaction Context and Appropriateness: Micro meets macro, Fetzer, Anita (ed.), pp. 203–233 | Article
The attenuative reading of the conditional form (condatt) in Italian and French illustrates the multifunctionality of linguistic structures and the necessity of analyzing them in their synergies with relevant contextual parameters. The condatt allows the speaker to allude to the existence of… read more