Marina Bletsas
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marina Bletsas is involved.
Articles
2022 Paroemiological argumentation in Italian and French journalistic discourse Journal of Argumentation in Context 11:2, pp. 180–199 | Article
Proverbs are often used in argumentation to convey an epistemic or deontic point of view. While their argumentative potential has not failed to gain the attention of linguists, much remains to be done in terms of analyzing their pragmatic function in single argumentative contexts and languages.… read more
2015 The voices of justice. Argumentative polyphony and strategic manoeuvring in judgement motivations: An example from the Italian Constitutional Court Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 79–98 | Article
Combining the ScaPoLine (Nølke, Fløttum, & Norén, 2004; Nølke, 2009, 2011, 2013) with the (extended) pragma-dialectical approach (van Eemeren & Grootendorst 1984, 2004; van Eemeren 2010), I suggest a reconstruction of judgement motivations as critical discussions between a plurality of voices… read more