In: Semiotica, 2016, vol. 2016, no. 211, p. 59-80
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In: Semiotica, 2016, no. 211, p. 59–80
This paper sets out to analyze cultural semiotics of migrants’ food and culinary practices. Moving from the perspective of the Tartu school of semiotics, which views culture both as a grammar (a set of codes) and as a set of texts, food can be characterized as a specific cultural element where grammar and text (code and experience) are woven together. International migrants live one or more...
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In: Discourse Studies, 2018, vol. 20, no. 6, p. 1-17
This paper seeks to extend existing models of argumentation by considering an important dimension of real-life argumentative discourse: how complex argumentative discussions evolve over time. We define a complex argumentative discussion as a multi-issue discussion, in which the different issues are interrelated in the form of a hierarchy. We claim that justified reframing might be used to...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2016 ; 2016COM001.
Questa ricerca indaga il ruolo svolto dalle strategie evidenziali nel discorso argomentativo, adottando come caso di studio i verbi d’apparenza sembrare e apparire. L’ambito di ricerca in cui s’inserisce è lo studio degli indicatori argomentativi, vale a dire di quegli indizi linguistici che possono essere sfruttati da un analista per ricostruire l’intreccio degli argomenti in un...
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In: Appetite, 2014, vol. 73, p. 81-94
At mealtimes, the evaluation of the appropriate (or not appropriate) behavior concerning the food is often assumed as a topic of discourse. The aim of this study is to single out the argumentative strategies used by parents with their children and by children with their parents in order to convince the other party to eat or not to eat a certain food. Within a data corpus constituted by 30...
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In: Discourse studies, 2012, vol. 14, no. 2, p. 197-216
On the basis of a case-study based on the argumentative analysis of news in the press, this paper introduces and discusses strategic manoeuvring with contextual frames. Drawing on the linguistic notion of frame, I introduce the concept of contextual frame to refer to the news context, i.e. the background against which a certain event is presented as a piece of news. I argue that newspapers and...
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In: Sistemi intelligenti, 2012, vol. 3, p. 481-502
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In: Journal of community & applied social psychology, 2013, vol. 23, no. 3, p. 206-224
This paper is centred on family conversations and focuses on the conditions that allow a specific strategic maneuver, the invocation of the authority, to be an effective argumentative strategy when used by parents to convince their children to accept rules and prescriptions. Within a corpus of argumentative sequences selected from 30 video-recordings of family mealtime conversations, an...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2013 ; 2013COM005.
In recent years, the family context has emerged as one of the most important contexts for the study of argumentation. The activity of mealtime, in particular, represents a privileged moment for studying how parents and children interact with each other, because it is one of the few moments during the day in which all family members come together and engage in intensive verbal interaction....
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In: Journalism and mass communication quarterly, 2012, vol. 89, no. 3, p. 414-430
This quantitative content analysis applies the theory of instrumental actualization to Swiss newspaper coverage of smoking bans in public places. The theory holds that journalists' opinions affect news selection; it is studied here for the weighting and evaluation of arguments in news stories. The editorial stance of newspapers was related to the weighting of argumentative fields and the...
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