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Argumentation between parents and children : A study of family discussions at mealtime

Bova, Antonio ; Rigotti, Eddo (Dir.)

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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Kyosei : An example of cultural keyword argumentatively exploited in corporate reporting discourse

Filimon, Agatha Ioana

In: Studies in communication sciences, 2009, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 131-151

By means of a relevant example, this paper shows the appropriateness of the theoretical construct of argumentative keyword proposed by Rigotti & Rocci (2005) in relation to an emergent discourse genre: top management’s letters to stakeholders appearing in the introduction to corporate social responsibility/sustainability reports. Analyzing a text fragment extracted from a recent ...