Screen LibraryModality in Argumentation : A Semantic Investigation of the Role of Modalities in the Structure of Arguments with an Application to Italian Modal Expressions /
This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmin s seminal book on the uses of argument. The first question is the one of the relationship between the semantic analysis of modality and the structure of arguments. The second question is the one of the distinctive place, or...
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Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Dordrecht : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Argumentation Library,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1063-1 |
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This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmin s seminal book on the uses of argument. The first question is the one of the relationship between the semantic analysis of modality and the structure of arguments. The second question is the one of the distinctive place, or role, of modality in the fundamental structure of arguments. These two questions concern how modality, as a semantic category, relates to the fundamental structure of arguments. The book addresses modality and argumentation also according to another perspective by looking at how different linguist |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(XI,488pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9789402410631 |
| Index Number: | P325 |
| CLC: | H0 |
| Contents: | Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Meaning and argumentation -- Chapter 2: Three views of modality in Toulmin -- Chapter 3: Relative modality and argumentation -- Chapter 4: Types of conversational backgrounds and arguments -- Chapter 5: Case studies of Italian modal constructions in context -- Conclusion -- Index. |