Andrea Rocci
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andrea Rocci is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1877-6884
Journals
Journal of Argumentation in Context
Edited by Nanon Labrie and Menno H. Reijven
ISSN 2211-4742 | E‑ISSN 2211‑4750
Pragmatics & Cognition
Edited by Elly Ifantidou and Louis de Saussure
ISSN 0929-0907 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9943
Titles
Argumentation and Meaning: Semantic and pragmatic reflexions
Edited by Steve Oswald, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli and Andrea Rocci
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1 (2020) v, 166 pp.
Argumentation in Journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere
Edited by Corina Andone and Andrea Rocci
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 5:1 (2016) v, 111 pp.
2025 Argumentation in shareholder activism: Context, stock issues and argumentative patterns Journal of Argumentation in Context 14:2, pp. 137–178 | Article
The present contribution systematically explores the argumentative dimension of activist investor campaigns, which constitute a very important and underexplored argumentative activity type in the domain of financial communication. Using the controversy between an activist investor (AltaFox) and… read more
2024 Superquestions and some ways to answer them Journal of Argumentation in Context 13:3, pp. 319–372 | Article
Earnings Conference Calls, in which corporate management are quizzed by investment analysts, are a particularly rich source of a phenomenon of question-asking that, though less prevalent, also occurs in many other genres of discourse. When a participant in a dialogue is allowed to ask more than… read more
2024 Chapter 1. Plural conversations about argumentation: A bibliometric and corpus analysis Persuasion in Specialized Discourse: A multidisciplinary perspective, Degano, Chiara, Dora Renna and Francesca Santulli (eds.), pp. 24–45 | Chapter
Argumentation studies are an area of inquiry with important interdisciplinary appeal. As such, the word argumentation is used in communities with diverse perspectives and approaches. In this work we apply bibliometric and corpus analysis to identify the semantic content of the “scientific… read more
2020 Argumentation and meaning Argumentation and Meaning: Semantic and pragmatic reflexions, Oswald, Steve, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli and Andrea Rocci (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
This special issue aims to explore the semantic and pragmatic dimensions of meaning in terms of their significance and relevance in the study of argumentation. Accordingly, the contributors to the project, who have all presented their work during the 2nd Argumentation and Language conference,… read more
2020 The significance of the adversative connectives aber, mais, ma (‘but’) as indicators in young children’s argumentation Argumentation and Meaning: Semantic and pragmatic reflexions, Oswald, Steve, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli and Andrea Rocci (eds.), pp. 69–94 | Article
Adversative connectives have been analyzed as articulating explicit and implicit facets of argumentative moves and have been thus recognized as potential argumentative indicators. Here we examine adversative connectives Ger. aber, Fr. mais, It. ma (‘but’) in young children’s speech in the… read more
2020 Chapter 8. A historical controversy about politeness and public argument: The dispute about fashion between Melchiorre Gioja and Antonio Rosmini Controversies and Interdisciplinarity: Beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model, Allwood, Jens, Olga Pombo, Clara Renna and Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), pp. 155–176 | Chapter
This article presents the Nineteenth-Century dispute arising from the criticism that the Italian philosopher Antonio Rosmini expressed against the arguments that the statesman Melchiorre Gioja supported in defense of fashion in his Apologia della moda ‘Apology of Fashion’ (1822) and against the… read more
2019 Chapter 12. Shifting from a monological to a dialogical perspective on children’s argumentation: Lessons learned Argumentation in Actual Practice: Topical studies about argumentative discourse in context, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 211–236 | Chapter
2019 Chapter 2. The Nuovo Galateo (‘New Galateo’, 1802) by Melchiorre Gioja, politeness (pulitezza) and reason Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick and Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.), pp. 75–106 | Chapter
In 1802 Melchiorre Gioja published the Nuovo Galateo (‘New Galateo’), a treatise that supplants the aristocratic model based on conventional ceremonies with a model based on ragione sociale ‘social reason’. The word and its morphological derived lexemes play an important role in the argumentative… read more
2016 Argumentation in journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere Argumentation in Journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere, Andone, Corina and Andrea Rocci (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
2016 Economic-financial journalists as argumentative intermediaries Argumentation in Journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere, Andone, Corina and Andrea Rocci (eds.), pp. 88–111 | Article
The paper offers a single-case analysis of newsmaking discourse, considering the source, the writing process and the news product from the vantage point of argumentation. The case study examines how a journalist of the business-finance desk of a generalist newspaper copes with the argumentative… read more
2015 The argumentative relevance of pictorial and multimodal metaphor in advertising Journal of Argumentation in Context 4:2, pp. 158–199 | Article
In this article we present an exploratory investigation of pictorial and multimodal metaphors appearing in print product advertisements; the aim is to ascertain their relevance for the arguments that the ads put forth. Departing from the working hypotheses that advertising is an argumentative… read more
2009 Doing discourse with possible worlds Discourse, of Course: An overview of research in discourse studies, Renkema, Jan (ed.), pp. 15–35 | Article
2009 Manoeuvring with voices: The polyphonic framing of arguments in an institutional advertisement Examining Argumentation in Context: Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering, Eemeren, Frans H. van (ed.), pp. 257–283 | Article
2005 9. From argument analysis to cultural keywords (and back again) Argumentation in Practice, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Peter Houtlosser (eds.), pp. 125–142 | Chapter
2005 Are manipulative texts ‘coherent’? Manipulation, presuppositions and (in-)congruity Manipulation and Ideologies in the Twentieth Century: Discourse, language, mind, Saussure, Louis de and Peter J. Schulz (eds.), pp. 85–112 | Article
2003 Conceptual maps in e-learning Information Design Journal 11:2/3, pp. 171–184 | Article
The paper presents a design strategy for e-learning hypermedia interfaces based on the notion of conceptual-navigational map. It proposes to analyze the cognitive and communication problems that arise in the use of hypermedia applications with specific goals, such as e-learning courseware modules,… read more