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Publication details [#65597]

Mazzali-Lurati, Sabrina, Chiara Pollaroli and Silvia De Ascaniis. 2018. Multimodality and argumentation in online travel reviews. An action-centered analysis. International Review of Pragmatics 10 (2) : 270–293.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argumentation | internet | modality | pragmatic function | review

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This article rebuilds the discourse acts' hierarchy that reviewers frame in multimodal online reviews for tourist attractions. It displays how reviewers use distinct semiotic modes to fill the communicative action of tourist recommendation, and the pragmatic function of photographs in the discourse acts' hierarchy.