Davide Mazzi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Davide Mazzi is involved.
2026 “…animated by a number of fundamental principles”: An analysis of pragmatic argumentation in a corpus of Supreme Court of Ireland’s judgments on human rights International Journal of Corpus Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
The aim of this paper is to combine a quantitative analysis of indicators of pragmatic argumentation with a qualitative investigation of the argument scheme in a corpus of Supreme Court of Ireland’s judgments. The quantitative analysis indicates that the Supreme Court’s argumentation tends to… read more
2014 “Our reading would lead to…”: Corpus perspectives on pragmatic argumentation in US Supreme Court judgments Journal of Argumentation in Context 3:2, pp. 103–125 | Article
Of the various subtypes of causal argumentation, one that has been sparking the interest of a large number of scholars across various contexts is pragmatic argumentation. This paper aims at undertaking an exploratory study of discursive indicators of pragmatic argumentation in a synchronic corpus… read more
2012 Chapter 7. Analogy in history: A corpus-based study Exploring Argumentative Contexts, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 115–134 | Article
Over the last few decades, there has been a remarkable spate of interest for history. Thus, this academic discipline has been tackled for the captivating copresence of narrative and argumentative components in professional historians’ scientific prose. Additionally, a few attempts have been made to… read more
2010 History v. marketing: Keywords as a clue to disciplinary epistemology Keyness in Texts, Bondi, Marina and Mike Scott (eds.), pp. 169–184 | Article
We present the findings of an introductory study of keywords across two disciplines, i.e. history and marketing, focusing on terms that bring insights into disciplinary epistemology. The study relies on two comparable corpora (2.5 million words each) comprised of history and marketing research… read more