In: Argumentation, 2006, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 519-540
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In: Health Policy and Planning, 2012, vol. 27, p. iv32-iv43
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In: Cerebral Cortex, 2007, vol. 18, no. 6, p. 1233-1238
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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: Studies in communications sciences, 2009, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 79-92
This paper investigates how to reconstruct and evaluate argumentation in the context of Italian family conversations. By means of a case study, we show how understanding context is essential for the analytical reconstruction of argumentation. Within conversations at dinnertime, we rely on insights from Conversation and Discourse Analysis in order to interpret context-bound communicative and...
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In: Studies in communication sciences, 2008, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 67-91
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In: Studies in communication sciences, 2009, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 59-78
This paper considers argumentation in the context of the current economic-financial crisis by focusing on the attempt made by UBS bank to retain stakeholders’ confidence. as a case in point, i analyze a press release through which the bank announces important changes in the Board of Directors. the text includes a clearly argumentative aim: convince stakeholders, in particular clients, to...
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