Forms and Uses of Argument: Transdisciplinary Aspects of Figurative Language: from Aesthetics to Neuroscience

ISBN-13: 9783631889220 / Angielski

Stefano Calabrese; Annamaria Contini

Opis

The volume is the result of transdisciplinary studies carried out by professors and researchers working at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The contributors apply neuro-scientific, aesthetic, linguistic and rhetorical methods to focus on the concept of argumentation.

Spis treści

Preface - 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

O autorze

Stefano Calabrese is full professor of Comparative Litarature at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He specializes in both eastern and western literary texts and life narratives by applying neurocognitive methods and reasearch results.

Annamaria Contini is full professor of Aesthetics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Her research focuses on theories of metaphor, philosophical schools of modernity and iconic language.