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Modality in Argumentation

Part of the Argumentation Library Book Series (volume 29)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-1063-1

ISBN: 978-94-024-1061-7

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Mar 9, 2017

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Chapter 1Introduction

Rocci, Andrea

Pages: 1 –32

[This short chapter introduces the notions of modalitymodality and argumentationArgumentation, argument, arguer and lays down the central research questions of the book, which revolve around modality in relation to the essential structure of argumentsArgumentation, argument, arguer. The...
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Chapter 2Meaning and Argumentation

Rocci, Andrea

Pages: 33 –103

[The chapter outlines the profile of argumentationArgumentation, argument, arguer theory as a scientific enterprise and discusses how the study of meaning in its semanticsemantic and pragmaticPragmatic aspects can contribute to the descriptive and normativenormative study of...
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Chapter 3Three Views of Modality in Toulmin

Rocci, Andrea

Pages: 105 –196

[The chapter reads as an original contribution to the exegesis of Toulmin’s The Uses of ArgumentArgumentation, argument, arguer. It examines this modern classic of argumentationArgumentation, argument, arguer theory from the scarcely explored perspective of modalitymodality unveiling some latent...
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Chapter 4Relative Modality and Argumentation

Rocci, Andrea

Pages: 197 –274

[The chapter draws on studies of the semanticssemantics of modalitysemantics of modality in the formal semantics tradition. Moving from the need of restricting the domain of quantification in a possible worlds semantics of modalitysemantics of modalitysemantics of modality, it presents a...
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Chapter 5Types of Conversational Backgrounds and Arguments

Rocci, Andrea

Pages: 275 –369

[The chapter reconstructs the most relevantRelevance, relevant “flavors” of modalitymodality (alethicAlethic (modality), deonticDeontic (modality), deontic-practicalDeontic-Practical (modality), anankastic, and epistemic) in terms of a relationalrelational, discoursediscoursesensitive,...
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Chapter 6Case Studies of Italian Modal Constructions in Context

Rocci, Andrea

Pages: 371 –465

[The chapter examines how specific modalmodalconstructionsconstructions of the Italian language in a concrete contextcontext of argumentative discussion can function as indicators for the reconstruction and evaluation of argumentsArgumentation, argument, arguer put forth in ordinary...
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Chapter 7Conclusion

Rocci, Andrea

Pages: 467 –482

[The six previous chapters make for a ponderous book. Hopefully, they also make for an informative one.]

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