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Book SynopsisThis volume is the result of transdisciplinary studies conducted by professors and researchers of the Department of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. It cross-applies neuro-scientific, aesthetic, linguistic and rhetorical methods to focus on the concept of argumentation, much studied during the 20th century and then forsaken. The common thread that links the essays is the concept of figurative language intended as an argumentative tool, while throughout the 20th century it was believed that in every field of human knowledge formal approaches should prevail: only the form, it was thought, constitutes the purest essence, the “net weight” of things. In contrast to this, “Forms and Uses of Argument” intend to demonstrate that the figurative language - and first of all the metaphors – are in fact rather an archetypal “propellant” for the most widespread argumentative logics.
Table of ContentsPreface - CHAPTER 1 Stefano Calabrese Emotions as argumentative programmers - CHAPTER 2 Annamaria Contini Metaphor and narrative reconfiguration. An example in the French physiology of the late nineteen century - CHAPTER 3 Valentina Bianchi, Maria Elena Favilla, Michela Maschietto “I know but I can’t explain it”: a starting point for the development of argumentation abilities in prospective primary teacher education - CHAPTER 4 Valentina Conti The argumentative and rhetorical function of metonymy in an epidemic/pandemic context - CHAPTER 5 Alice Giuliani Ivor Armstrong Richards and Max Black on metaphor: comparing modes of argumentation - CHAPTER 6 Jennifer Moreno Using metaphor as an argumentative tool in patients’ narratives
