In the spirit of the pragmatic account of quotation and reporting offered by Macagno and
Walton (2017), we outline a systematic pragmatic account of rephrasing. For this purpose …

Through the analysis of presuppositions, question design, social action and preference
organisation in short fragments of Italian question-answer sequences, this paper aims to …

Using a 20-hour contrastive corpus documenting political debates (public debates as well as
debates on TV) and work meetings, the paper examines the functions and distributions of a …

The question of how knowledge is phrased, qualified and negotiated among speakers has
been debated in linguistics, language typology, pragmatics, conversation analysis, and …

This paper presents an analysis of the English adverb clearly and its Spanish equivalent
claramente, both of which have a meaning of manner that pertains to the internal structure of …

The contribution discusses the theoretical problem of the relationship between evidentiality
and argumentative justification. Within a framework that combines semantic and syntactic …

This paper sets forth a quantitative analysis of expressions of epistemicity, a category
covering the expression of commitment to the information transmitted, in a corpus of 25 …

The present study investigates the role of argumentative moves and indicators in four
American and Canadian police interrogations. Argumentative moves and indicators have …

Argumentative competence, initially proposed in parallel to communicative competence in
the ethnography of communication, has been examined from various perspectives. Unlike …

The current study intends to examine the argumentative indicators produced by second
language learners in a university-level student debate competition and the functions of the …