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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In: Proceedings of the 15th European Conference of Developmental Psychology, 2012, p. 301-306
The present investigation has examined 3 to 6 year old children’s “why” questions and their communicative functions in family conversations. Children’s why questions included in thirty videorecordings of dinnertime interactions, held by Italian and Swiss families, were analyzed. In this investigation, the presence of two fundamental functions of children’s why questions,...
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In: US-China education review, 2011, vol. 8, no. 3, p. 355-368
This paper investigates to what extent Swiss and Italian family members engage to resolve differences of opinion during their everyday conversations at home. The goal is to point out the importance of the context in the an alytical reconstruction of argumentation carried out by parents and children at dinnertime and to highlight the similarities and diferences among different strategies. By...
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In: Procedia: social and behavioral sciences, 2011, vol. 30, p. 776-782
This study focuses on children's speech and, more particularly, analyzes the functions of children's “why” questions asked during family conversations at home. Within a data corpus composed of video recordings of family dinnertime interactions, sequences in which children ask “why” questions during family conversations are presented and qualitatively analyzed. The results show the...
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In: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2011, p. 149-161
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In: Language and World : proceedings of the 32nd International Wittgenstein Symposium, 2009, p. 64-65
This paper focuses on Wittgenstein's notion of psychological concepts. According to the Austrian philosopher, it is only the Grammar to provide the means in order to properly interpret the psychological concepts, and the description of internals mental states is reduced to the description of the use of words. Psychological facts and phenomena are thus replaced with the notion of psychological...
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In: Studies in communication sciences, 2009, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 297-300
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In: Procedia: social and behavioral sciences, 2011, vol. 30, p. 1385–1389
This study aims to analyze how family members engage themselves in resolving differences of opinion during everyday interactions. In particular, we focus on the argumentative strategies used by parents during dinner conversations at home with their children. Within a data corpus based on video-recordings of family dinnertime interactions, two different excerpts of argumentative discussions...
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In: L'analisi linguistica e letteraria, 2008, vol. 2, p. 559-576
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In: L’analisi linguistica e letteraria, 2008, vol. 2, p. 859-872
This paper considers a specific communicative activity type of the financial context – analysts and investors conference calls – from an argumentative perspective. On the basis of a concrete example bound to an important and very recent merger story (the failed attempt to combine Barclays and ABN AMRO banks), it is shown that conference calls, apparently conceived for ...
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