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By Andrea Rocci

ISBN-10: 9402410619

ISBN-13: 9789402410617

This e-book addresses comparable questions that experience first arisen in Toulmin’s seminal publication at the makes use of of argument. the 1st query is the single of the connection among the semantic research of modality and the constitution of arguments. the second one query is the single of the distinct position, or position, of modality within the primary constitution of arguments. those questions problem how modality, as a semantic classification, pertains to the elemental constitution of arguments. The e-book addresses modality and argumentation additionally in line with one other point of view by means of taking a look at how assorted linguistic modal expressions might be taken as argumentative symptoms. It explores the function of modal expressions as argumentative signs by utilizing the Italian modal method as a case research. even as, it makes use of predictions/forecasts within the business-financial day-by-day press to enquire the relation among modality and the context of argumentation.

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