Commitment plays a crucial role in the stabilization of communication. While commitment
increases the acceptance of the message communicated, it comes with a price: the greater …

This paper explores the interface between pragmatics and argumentation by considering the
impact of different types of implicit meaning on different types of rhetorical effects. On the …

The paper is concerned with gossip communicated by headlines in a German celebrity
magazine. It takes its starting point in a philosophical controversy on the question whether …

This paper explores the role played by nominalization in enhancing the persuasive potential
of texts by allowing a larger and more effective use of linguistic implicit strategies. The …

It is generally maintained that, as a modal adverb, Italian davvero 'really'signals a high
degree of certainty attributed by the speaker to the modified linguistic material, or expresses …

The Manipulative Disguise of Truth Page 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company The
Manipulative Disguise of Truth Viviana Masia Page 2 The Manipulative Disguise of Truth Page …

The role of cognitive processes in compliment-response (CR) exchanges is an
underdeveloped area of investigation. This article aims to probe whether Persian speakers' …

The way linguistic messages are “packaged” in political discourse often reflects
evidentiallybased criteria and, notably, the intention of the politician to make his epistemic …

The French right and far-right have promoted a dehumanized vision of the migrants through
their discourse in the last ten years. In this paper, we argue that this is the outcome of a …

Elastic language is a phenomenon in linguistics that refers to how we stretch the meanings
of words, depending on the context in which they are used-for example many, about 20 …