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Modality in ArgumentationTypes of Conversational Backgrounds and Arguments

Modality in Argumentation: Types of Conversational Backgrounds and Arguments [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, contextcontextdependentcontext dependent, proceduralprocedural approach to the interpretation of modalmodalconstructionsconstructions. The approach, while inspired by Relative ModalityRelative Modality and the formal semanticssemantics tradition, integrates pragmaticPragmatic insights and it is cast as a tool for the actual analysis of discourse and argumentationArgumentation, argument, arguer. This approach to the typology of modal “flavors” is needed because the full indicative potential of a modal emerges only when its conversational backgroundconversational background has been specified. At this point, the modal will act as a guide in the clarification of argumentative confrontations, in the specification of the logical type of the standpointStandpoint, in the recovery of premisesPremise as well as in the determination of the inferential structure of the argumentArgumentation, argument, arguer (argumentationArgumentation, argument, arguer schemeArgument scheme(s), argumentation scheme), where the flavor of modality can help by suggesting the locus-relation invoked by the argumentationArgumentation, argument, arguer scheme. The semanticsemantic category of evidentialityEvidentiality, evidential meaning, which is closely related to epistemic modalityEpistemic (modality), is also briefly examined in relation to argumentationArgumentation, argument, arguer, with a survey of the most basic categories of evidence sources encoded by languages (perception, testimony, inferenceinference).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Modality in ArgumentationTypes of Conversational Backgrounds and Arguments

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
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275 –369
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10.1007/978-94-024-1063-1_5
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Abstract

[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, contextcontextdependentcontext dependent, proceduralprocedural approach to the interpretation of modalmodalconstructionsconstructions. The approach, while inspired by Relative ModalityRelative Modality and the formal semanticssemantics tradition, integrates pragmaticPragmatic insights and it is cast as a tool for the actual analysis of discourse and argumentationArgumentation, argument, arguer. This approach to the typology of modal “flavors” is needed because the full indicative potential of a modal emerges only when its conversational backgroundconversational background has been specified. At this point, the modal will act as a guide in the clarification of argumentative confrontations, in the specification of the logical type of the standpointStandpoint, in the recovery of premisesPremise as well as in the determination of the inferential structure of the argumentArgumentation, argument, arguer (argumentationArgumentation, argument, arguer schemeArgument scheme(s), argumentation scheme), where the flavor of modality can help by suggesting the locus-relation invoked by the argumentationArgumentation, argument, arguer scheme. The semanticsemantic category of evidentialityEvidentiality, evidential meaning, which is closely related to epistemic modalityEpistemic (modality), is also briefly examined in relation to argumentationArgumentation, argument, arguer, with a survey of the most basic categories of evidence sources encoded by languages (perception, testimony, inferenceinference).]

Published: Mar 9, 2017

Keywords: Propositional Content; Argument Scheme; Constitutive Rule; Epistemic Modality; Root Modality

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