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Modality in ArgumentationCase Studies of Italian Modal Constructions in Context

Modality in Argumentation: Case Studies of Italian Modal Constructions in Context [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 discoursediscourse. The chapter examines a segment of the Italian modal system comprising different constructions with verbs potere ‘may, can’ and, especially, dovere ‘must’, which have direct or indirect epistemic interpretations. A special focus is represented the constructions DEVEE and DOVREBBEE based on the verb dovere. In these constructions the basic context-dependent relationalrelationalsemanticssemantics is enriched by subtle constraints on the evidential source. As a result, the two constructions end up guiding the establishing of argumentative relations of very specific kinds, differing not only in the expressed strengthstrength of supportstrength of support or degree of commitmentCommitment, degree of towards the conclusionConclusion, but also along a series of parameters including the nature and epistemic status of the premisesPremise, the presence of rebuttalsRebuttals, the semanticsemantic type of the standpointStandpoint, and the argumentative locus invoked. At the same time, the studies in this chapter aim at understanding how the social and material ontology of the contextscontexts in which argumentative discussions take place is reflected in the semantic structure of argumentative discourse in the area of modalitymodality. To do so, the chapter unravels how argumentationArgumentation, argument, arguer and modality intertwine in the genre of business-financial newspaper articles by focusing on acts of predictionPrediction, which represents a key speech-act in view of the whole functioning of the interactioninteraction fieldinteraction field of financial communication.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Modality in ArgumentationCase Studies of Italian Modal Constructions in Context

Part of the Argumentation Library Book Series (volume 29)
Rocci, Andrea
Modality in Argumentation — Mar 9, 2017
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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017
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978-94-024-1061-7
Pages
371 –465
DOI
10.1007/978-94-024-1063-1_6
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[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 discoursediscourse. The chapter examines a segment of the Italian modal system comprising different constructions with verbs potere ‘may, can’ and, especially, dovere ‘must’, which have direct or indirect epistemic interpretations. A special focus is represented the constructions DEVEE and DOVREBBEE based on the verb dovere. In these constructions the basic context-dependent relationalrelationalsemanticssemantics is enriched by subtle constraints on the evidential source. As a result, the two constructions end up guiding the establishing of argumentative relations of very specific kinds, differing not only in the expressed strengthstrength of supportstrength of support or degree of commitmentCommitment, degree of towards the conclusionConclusion, but also along a series of parameters including the nature and epistemic status of the premisesPremise, the presence of rebuttalsRebuttals, the semanticsemantic type of the standpointStandpoint, and the argumentative locus invoked. At the same time, the studies in this chapter aim at understanding how the social and material ontology of the contextscontexts in which argumentative discussions take place is reflected in the semantic structure of argumentative discourse in the area of modalitymodality. To do so, the chapter unravels how argumentationArgumentation, argument, arguer and modality intertwine in the genre of business-financial newspaper articles by focusing on acts of predictionPrediction, which represents a key speech-act in view of the whole functioning of the interactioninteraction fieldinteraction field of financial communication.]

Published: Mar 9, 2017

Keywords: Propositional Content; Epistemic Modality; Epistemic Evaluation; Future Eventuality; Subjunctive Mood

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