Rosa Scardigno
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rosa Scardigno is involved.
Articles
2014 The dialogic construction of certainty in legal contexts Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue, Zuczkowski, Andrzej (ed.), pp. 112–131 | Article
The contexts of legal communication are characterized by the maximum strain between the spread of doubtfulness and the aspiration to certainty. The distance between the versions of events proposed by prosecution and defense is clear evidence of the sense-making dynamic that marks the human… read more
2014 Rhetorics of (un)certainty in religious discourse Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between, Cantarini, Sibilla, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. 343–362 | Article
Religious belief is an emotional attitude that is not based on a “certain” experience. Adolescence is a very uncertain stage of life and an unstable faith can mirror this turbulence. The aim of this work is to investigate the discursive construction of religious experience in late adolescence. We… read more