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List of John Benjamins publications for which someone affiliated with Università della Svizzera italiana plays a role.

Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Argumentation and Meaning: Semantic and pragmatic reflexions. Special issue of the Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1 (2020)

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

[Journal of Argumentation in Context, 9:1] 2020. | special issue
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Edited by Annick Paternoster & Susan Fitzmaurice

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299] 2018. | edited volume
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

Corporate Argumentation in Takeover Bids

Rudi Palmieri

[Argumentation in Context, 8] 2014. xii, 274 pp. | monograph
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Manipulation and Ideologies in the Twentieth Century: Discourse, language, mind

Edited by Louis de Saussure & Peter J. Schulz

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 17] 2005. xvi, 312 pp. | edited volume
Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Coppola, Claudia, Giorgia Mannaioli & Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri 2024 Vagueness and ambiguity are very different (persuasion devices)
In: Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria & Chiara Zanchi (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 347] pp. 51–83
Keywords vagueness | ambiguity | persuasion | epistemic vigilance | implicit meaning | cognitive linguistics | experimental pragmatics
Todorovic, Natalija, Benedetto Lepori & Andrea Rocci 2024 Plural conversations about argumentation: A bibliometric and corpus analysis
In: Persuasion in Specialized Discourse: A multidisciplinary perspective, Degano, Chiara, Dora Renna & Francesca Santulli (eds.) [Argumentation in Context, 22] pp. 24–45
Keywords argumentation studies | bibliometric analysis | corpus analysis | interdisciplinarity | semantic content
Hernández, Alfonso 2024 Journalists’ questions during crisis: Watchdogs or disseminators of information?
Keywords argumentative moves | corpus annotation | Covid-19 | journalism | press conferences | questions
Kádár, Dániel Z., Gudrun Held & Annick Paternoster 2023 Introduction: Politeness in and across Historical Europe
Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1pp. 1–15 | introduction
Paternoster, Annick 2023 The codification of nineteenth-century etiquette: On politeness, morality, rituals and discernment
Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1pp. 160–178 | article
Keywords class | conduct | discernment | etiquette | morality | nineteenth century | politeness | ritual
Greco, Sara & Chiara Jermini-Martinez Soria 2021 Mediators’ reframing as a constitutive element of a reconciliatory argumentative style
Keywords strategic manoeuvring | argumentative style | reconciliatory style | dispute mediation | reframing
Hernández, Alfonso 2021 Journalists’ moves in political press conferences and their implications for accountability
Journal of Argumentation in Context 10:3pp. 281–314 | article
Keywords accountability | argumentative scenarios | dialectical profiles | journalism | political press conferences | questions
Miecznikowski, Johanna 2020 At the juncture between evidentiality and argumentation: Evidential verb complementation
Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1pp. 42–68 | article
Keywords information source | Argumentum Model of Topics | arguments from a reliable procedure | lexical evidential constructions | Italian
Lombardi Vallauri, Edoardo, Laura Baranzini, Doriana Cimmino, Federica Cominetti, Claudia Coppola & Giorgia Mannaioli 2020 Implicit argumentation and persuasion: A measuring model
Keywords implicit communication | manipulative discourse | political speech | implicatures | presuppositions
Rocci, Andrea, Sara Greco, Rebecca Schär, Josephine Convertini, Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont & Antonio Iannaccone 2020 The significance of the adversative connectives aber, mais, ma (‘but’) as indicators in young children’s argumentation
Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1pp. 69–94 | article
Keywords children’s argumentation | argumentative indicators | but | adversative connectives | argumentative semantics | counterargument | rebuttal | undercutter | implicit standpoints
Oswald, Steve, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli & Andrea Rocci 2020 Argumentation and meaning
Keywords argumentation | meaning | pragmatics | semantics | inference
Saltamacchia, Francesca & Andrea Rocci 2020 A historical controversy about politeness and public argument: The dispute about fashion between Melchiorre Gioja and Antonio Rosmini
In: Controversies and interdisciplinarity: Beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model, Allwood, Jens, Olga Pombo, Clara Renna & Giovanni Scarafile (eds.) [Controversies: Ethics and Interdisciplinarity, 16] pp. 155–176
Keywords argumentation | politeness | Nineteenth Century | Italy | historical controversy | fashion | interdisciplinarity | ethics
Bijnen, Emma van 2019 Dialogical power negotiations in conflict mediation
Language and Dialogue 9:1p. 84 | article
Keywords conflict mediation | power asymmetry | power negotiation | context design | workplace disputes | four devices
Andone, Corina & José Alfonso Lomeli Hernández 2019 Scientific arguments in policy-making
Journal of Argumentation in Context 8:2pp. 195–213 | article
Keywords burden of proof | policy-making | pragmatic argumentation | scientific arguments
van Bijnen, Emma & Sara Greco 2019 Divide to unite: Making disagreement explicit in dispute mediation
Journal of Argumentation in Context 7:3pp. 285–315 | article
Keywords disagreement | dispute mediation | issues | strategic maneuvering
Saltamacchia, Francesca & Andrea Rocci 2018 The Nuovo Galateo (‘New Galateo’, 1802) by Melchiorre Gioja, politeness (pulitezza) and reason
In: Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick & Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299] p. 75
Keywords argumentation | politeness | nineteenth century | Italy | reason | cultural keyword | behavioural treatise | evaluation | metapragmatic
Paternoster, Annick 2018 Politeness and evaluative adjectives in Italian turn-of-the-century etiquette books (1877–1914)
In: Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick & Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299] pp. 107–144
Keywords etiquette | conduct books | Italy | nineteenth century | evaluative adjectives | values | morality | politeness evaluator | metalabel | conceptual map | appraisal | discernment
Paternoster, Annick & Susan Fitzmaurice 2018 Politeness in nineteenth-century Europe, a research agenda
In: Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick & Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299] pp. 1–36
Greco, Sara, Teuta Mehmeti & Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont 2017 Do adult-children dialogical interactions leave space for a full development of argumentation?: A case study
Journal of Argumentation in Context 6:2pp. 193–219 | article
Keywords children’s argumentation | interaction | critical discussion | opening stage | issue
Palmieri, Rudi & Sabrina Mazzali-Lurati 2017 Practical reasoning in corporate communication with multiple audiences
Journal of Argumentation in Context 6:2pp. 167–192 | article
Keywords Argumentum Model of Topics | audience analysis | corporate argumentation | multiple audiences | practical argumentation | ratified readers | (text) stakeholders | strategic communication | takeovers
Rocci, Andrea & Margherita Luciani 2016 Economic-financial journalists as argumentative intermediaries
Keywords argumentative reconstruction | newsmaking discourse | progression analysis | argumentation in financial disclosures | ethnography of newsmaking | financial journalism | argumentation in the newsroom
Greco, Sara 2015 Argumentation from analogy in migrants’ decisions
In: Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice, van Eemeren, Frans H. & Bart Garssen (eds.) [Argumentation in Context, 9] pp. 265–280
Keywords argumentation from analogy | functional genus | inner argumentation | international migration | loci | migration strategy
Perret-Clermont, Anne-Nelly, Francesco Arcidiacono, Stephanie Breux, Sara Greco & Céline Miserez-Caperos 2015 Knowledge-oriented argumentation in children
In: Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice, van Eemeren, Frans H. & Bart Garssen (eds.) [Argumentation in Context, 9] pp. 135–150
Keywords children’s argumentation | communication | knowledge-oriented argumentation | reasoning | social interaction
Schulz, Peter J. & Bert Meuffels 2014 “It is about our body, our own body!”: On the difficulty of telling Dutch women under 50 that mammography is not for them
In: Argumentation and Health, Rubinelli, Sara & Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 64] pp. 130–142
Labrie, Nanon 2014 Strategically eliciting concessions from patients in treatment decision-making discussions
Journal of Argumentation in Context 2:3pp. 322–341 | article
Keywords doctor–patient consultation | material starting points | strategic maneuvering | dialectical profile | pragma-dialectics | treatment decision-making | concessions.
Schulz, Peter J. & Bert Meuffels 2012 “It is about our body, our own body!”: On the difficulty of telling dutch women under 50 that mammography is not for them
Journal of Argumentation in Context 1:1pp. 130–142 | article
Keywords argumentation in health care setting | breast cancer screening | health communication leaflet | persuasion | boundaries of argumentation