Università della Svizzera italiana

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Università della Svizzera italiana*

Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal Discourse and Argumentation in Times of Multiple Crises in Greece

Dimitris Serafis

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 99] 2023. | monograph

Argumentative Style: A pragma-dialectical study of functional variety in argumentative discourse

Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Sara Greco, Ton van Haaften, Nanon Labrie, Fernando Leal & Peng Wu

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Argumentation in Context, 20] 2022. | monograph

An Argumentative Analysis of the Emergence of Issues in Adult-Children Discussions

Rebecca G. Schär

Subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Argumentation in Context, 19] 2021. | monograph

Argumentation and Meaning: Semantic and pragmatic reflexions. Special issue of the Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1 (2020)

Edited by Steve Oswald, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli & Andrea Rocci

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Journal of Argumentation in Context, 9:1] 2020. | special issue

Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Edited by Annick Paternoster & Susan Fitzmaurice

Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299] 2019. | edited volume

Argumentation in the Newsroom

Edited by Marta Zampa

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Argumentation in Context, 13] 2017. | monograph

Corporate Argumentation in Takeover Bids

Rudi Palmieri

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Argumentation in Context, 8] 2014. xii, 274 pp. |

Argumentation in Dispute Mediation: A reasonable way to handle conflict

Sara Greco

Subjects Communication Studies | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Argumentation in Context, 3] 2011. xii, 291 pp. | monograph

Manipulation and Ideologies in the Twentieth Century: Discourse, language, mind

Edited by Louis de Saussure & Peter J. Schulz

Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 17] 2005. xvi, 312 pp. | edited volume

Palmieri, Rudi, Costanza Lucchini, Giulia D’Agostino & Andrea Rocci 2025 Argumentation in shareholder activism: Context, stock issues and argumentative patterns

Keywords: activist investor campaigns | argumentation in context | argumentative patterns | corporate governance, counter-argumentation | loci | shareholder activism | stock issues | strategic communication | trust

Journal of Argumentation in Context 14:2 pp. 137–178 | article | open access

Coppola, Claudia, Giorgia Mannaioli & Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri 2024 Vagueness and ambiguity are very different (persuasion devices)

Keywords: vagueness | ambiguity | persuasion | epistemic vigilance | implicit meaning | cognitive linguistics | experimental pragmatics

In: Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria & Chiara Zanchi (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 347] pp. 51–83

D’Agostino, Giulia, Ella Schad, Eimear Maguire, Costanza Lucchini, Andrea Rocci & Chris Reed 2025 Superquestions and some ways to answer them

Keywords: answerhood | answers | argumentation in finance | dialogical interaction | financial communication | maximal answering unit | maximal interrogative unit | questions | superanswers | superquestions

Journal of Argumentation in Context 13:3 pp. 319–372 | article | open access

Todorovic, Natalija, Benedetto Lepori & Andrea Rocci 2024 Plural conversations about argumentation: A bibliometric and corpus analysis

Keywords: argumentation studies | bibliometric analysis | corpus analysis | interdisciplinarity | semantic content

In: Persuasion in Specialized Discourse: A multidisciplinary perspective, Degano, Chiara, Dora Renna & Francesca Santulli (eds.) [Argumentation in Context, 22] pp. 24–45

Hernández, Alfonso 2024 Journalists’ questions during crisis: Watchdogs or disseminators of information?

Keywords: argumentative moves | corpus annotation | Covid-19 | journalism | press conferences | questions

Journal of Argumentation in Context 13:1 p. 74 | article

Kádár, Dániel Z., Gudrun Held & Annick Paternoster 2023 Introduction: Politeness in and across Historical Europe

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1 pp. 1–15 | introduction

Paternoster, Annick 2023 The codification of nineteenth-century etiquette: On politeness, morality, rituals and discernment

Keywords: class | conduct | discernment | etiquette | morality | nineteenth century | politeness | ritual

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1 pp. 160–178 | article

Serafis, Dimitris 2023 Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal discourse and argumentation in times of multiple crises in Greece

In: Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal Discourse and Argumentation in Times of Multiple Crises in Greece, Serafis, Dimitris[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 99] p.  ff.

van Eemeren, Frans H., Bart Garssen, Sara Greco, Ton van Haaften, Nanon Labrie, Fernando Leal & Peng Wu 2022 Argumentative Style

In: Argumentative Style: A pragma-dialectical study of functional variety in argumentative discourse, van Eemeren, Frans H., Bart Garssen, Sara Greco, Ton van Haaften, Nanon Labrie, Fernando Leal & Peng Wu [Argumentation in Context, 20] p. iii ff.

Greco, Sara 2021 Review of The quest for argumentative equivalence. Argumentative patterns in political interpreting contexts by Emanuele Brambilla (2020)

Journal of Argumentation in Context 10:3 pp. 418–423 | book review

Schär, Rebecca G. 2021  An argumentative analysis of the emergence of issues in adult-children discussions: The issue in adult-children discussions

In: An Argumentative Analysis of the Emergence of Issues in Adult-Children Discussions, Schär, Rebecca G.[Argumentation in Context, 19]

Greco, Sara 2021 Young children as rational interlocutors: A perspective on family argumentation

In: An Argumentative Analysis of the Emergence of Issues in Adult-Children Discussions, Schär, Rebecca G.[Argumentation in Context, 19] pp. 1–7

Greco, Sara & Chiara Jermini-Martinez Soria 2021 Mediators’ reframing as a constitutive element of a reconciliatory argumentative style

Keywords: strategic manoeuvring | argumentative style | reconciliatory style | dispute mediation | reframing

Journal of Argumentation in Context 10:1 pp. 73–96 | article

Hernández, Alfonso 2021 Journalists’ moves in political press conferences and their implications for accountability

Keywords: accountability | argumentative scenarios | dialectical profiles | journalism | political press conferences | questions

Journal of Argumentation in Context 10:3 pp. 281–314 | article

Christopher, Sabine 2021 Review of Il plurilinguismo svizzero e la sfida dell’inglese. Riflessioni dal laboratorio elvetico a confronto con l’Europa by Anja Giudici, Rocco W. Ronza & Verio Pini (2020)

Language Problems and Language Planning 44:3 pp. 376–384 | book review

Miecznikowski, Johanna 2020 At the juncture between evidentiality and argumentation: Evidential verb complementation

Keywords: information source | Argumentum Model of Topics | arguments from a reliable procedure | lexical evidential constructions | Italian

Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1 pp. 42–68 | article

Lombardi Vallauri, Edoardo, Laura Baranzini, Doriana Cimmino, Federica Cominetti, Claudia Coppola & Giorgia Mannaioli 2020 Implicit argumentation and persuasion: A measuring model

Keywords: implicit communication | manipulative discourse | political speech | implicatures | presuppositions

Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1 p. 95 | article

Rocci, Andrea, Sara Greco, Rebecca Schär, Josephine Convertini, Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont & Antonio Iannaccone 2020 The significance of the adversative connectives aber, mais, ma (‘but’) as indicators in young children’s argumentation

Keywords: children’s argumentation | argumentative indicators | but | adversative connectives | argumentative semantics | counterargument | rebuttal | undercutter | implicit standpoints

Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1 pp. 69–94 | article

Oswald, Steve, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli & Andrea Rocci 2020 Argumentation and meaning

Keywords: argumentation | meaning | pragmatics | semantics | inference

Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1 pp. 1–18 | article

Saltamacchia, Francesca & Andrea Rocci 2020 A historical controversy about politeness and public argument: The dispute about fashion between Melchiorre Gioja and Antonio Rosmini

Keywords: argumentation | politeness | Nineteenth Century | Italy | historical controversy | fashion | interdisciplinarity | ethics

In: Controversies and interdisciplinarity: Beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model, Allwood, Jens, Olga Pombo, Clara Renna & Giovanni Scarafile (eds.) [Controversies: Ethics and Interdisciplinarity, 16] pp. 155–176

Bijnen, Emma van 2019 Dialogical power negotiations in conflict mediation

Keywords: conflict mediation | power asymmetry | power negotiation | context design | workplace disputes | four devices

Language and Dialogue 9:1 p. 84 | article

Andone, Corina & José Alfonso Lomeli Hernández 2019 Scientific arguments in policy-making

Keywords: burden of proof | policy-making | pragmatic argumentation | scientific arguments

Journal of Argumentation in Context 8:2 pp. 195–213 | article

Perret-Clermont, Anne-Nelly, Rebecca Schär, Sara Greco, Josephine Convertini, Antonio Iannaccone & Andrea Rocci 2019 Shifting from a monological to a dialogical perspective on children’s argumentation: Lessons learned

In: Argumentation in Actual Practice: Topical studies about argumentative discourse in context, van Eemeren, Frans H. & Bart Garssen[Argumentation in Context, 17] pp. 211–236

Saltamacchia, Francesca & Andrea Rocci 2019 The Nuovo Galateo (‘New Galateo’, 1802) by Melchiorre Gioja, politeness (pulitezza) and reason

Keywords: argumentation | politeness | nineteenth century | Italy | reason | cultural keyword | behavioural treatise | evaluation | metapragmatic

In: Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick & Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299] p. 75

Paternoster, Annick 2019 Politeness and evaluative adjectives in Italian turn-of-the-century etiquette books (1877–1914)

Keywords: etiquette | conduct books | Italy | nineteenth century | evaluative adjectives | values | morality | politeness evaluator | metalabel | conceptual map | appraisal | discernment

In: Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick & Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299] pp. 107–144

Paternoster, Annick & Susan Fitzmaurice 2019 Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe

In: Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick & Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299]

Paternoster, Annick & Susan Fitzmaurice 2019 Politeness in nineteenth-century Europe, a research agenda

In: Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick & Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299] pp. 1–36

van Bijnen, Emma & Sara Greco 2019 Divide to unite: Making disagreement explicit in dispute mediation

Keywords: disagreement | dispute mediation | issues | strategic maneuvering

Journal of Argumentation in Context 7:3 pp. 285–315 | article

Greco, Sara, Teuta Mehmeti & Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont 2017 Do adult-children dialogical interactions leave space for a full development of argumentation?: A case study

Keywords: children’s argumentation | interaction | critical discussion | opening stage | issue

Journal of Argumentation in Context 6:2 pp. 193–219 | article

Palmieri, Rudi & Sabrina Mazzali-Lurati 2017 Practical reasoning in corporate communication with multiple audiences

Keywords: Argumentum Model of Topics | audience analysis | corporate argumentation | multiple audiences | practical argumentation | ratified readers | (text) stakeholders | strategic communication | takeovers

Journal of Argumentation in Context 6:2 pp. 167–192 | article

Andone, Corina & Andrea Rocci 2016 Argumentation in journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere

Journal of Argumentation in Context 5:1 pp. 1–8 | article

Rocci, Andrea & Margherita Luciani 2016 Economic-financial journalists as argumentative intermediaries

Keywords: argumentative reconstruction | newsmaking discourse | progression analysis | argumentation in financial disclosures | ethnography of newsmaking | financial journalism | argumentation in the newsroom

Journal of Argumentation in Context 5:1 p. 88 | article

Greco, Sara 2015 Argumentation from analogy in migrants’ decisions

Keywords: argumentation from analogy | functional genus | inner argumentation | international migration | loci | migration strategy

In: Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice, van Eemeren, Frans H. & Bart Garssen (eds.) [Argumentation in Context, 9] pp. 265–280

Perret-Clermont, Anne-Nelly, Francesco Arcidiacono, Stephanie Breux, Sara Greco & Céline Miserez-Caperos 2015 Knowledge-oriented argumentation in children

Keywords: children’s argumentation | communication | knowledge-oriented argumentation | reasoning | social interaction

In: Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice, van Eemeren, Frans H. & Bart Garssen (eds.) [Argumentation in Context, 9] pp. 135–150

Schulz, Peter J. & Bert Meuffels 2014 “It is about our body, our own body!”: On the difficulty of telling Dutch women under 50 that mammography is not for them

In: Argumentation and Health, Rubinelli, Sara & Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 64] pp. 130–142

Labrie, Nanon 2014 Strategically eliciting concessions from patients in treatment decision-making discussions

Keywords: doctor–patient consultation | material starting points | strategic maneuvering | dialectical profile | pragma-dialectics | treatment decision-making | concessions.

Journal of Argumentation in Context 2:3 pp. 322–341 | article

Greco Morasso, Sara 2013 Review of Examining argumentation in context: Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering by F. H. van Eemeren (2009)

Journal of Argumentation in Context 1:3 pp. 379–386 | book review

Schulz, Peter J. & Bert Meuffels 2012 “It is about our body, our own body!”: On the difficulty of telling dutch women under 50 that mammography is not for them

Keywords: argumentation in health care setting | breast cancer screening | health communication leaflet | persuasion | boundaries of argumentation

Journal of Argumentation in Context 1:1 pp. 130–142 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.