Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2011 ; 2011COM011.
The study of discourse within organizations is particularly interesting in the context of a university, where discursive activity is essential to achieving the two main institutional goals of communicating and enhancing knowledge. These objectives are pursued by means of two main classes of activities: teaching and research. Each institutional activity type (cfr. Levinson 1992), which...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2013 ; 2013COM008.
…ἕτοιμοι ἀεὶ πρὸς ἀπολογίαν παντὶ τῷ αἰτοῦντι ὑμᾶς λόγον περὶ τῆς ἐν ὑμῖν ἐλπίδος ἀλλὰ μετὰ πραΰτητος… (1Pt. 3,15-16) The choice of language used by the author of Peter’s First letter contains some important elements for people who like to investigate the nature and the forms of...
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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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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2007 ; 2007COM009.
Medical decisions are paradigmatically uncertain. Awareness of this uncertainty at the policy level has produced a strict regulation of the information exchange related to medical issues, e.g. by means of the institute of the informed consent or through tight administrative norms regulating the pharmaceutical communication towards the public. As a special support of such sort of information,...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2009.
This work investigates how argumentation, namely the communicative exchange aimed at founding ones position in a reasonable fashion, is an essential condition for the fulfilment of the pragmatic goals of mediation, conceived of as a conflict resolution practice. In mediation, the parties are competent and responsible for the decision on the conflict, while the mediator helps them assume an...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2010.
This dissertation analyzes argumentative interactions in the context of corporate takeover bids, representing thus a first systematic study of financial communication from the perspective of argumentation theory. In general, the importance of financial communication is justified by the relevance of information for making sound investment decisions (cf. Healy Williams 2008)....
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