This short chapter introduces the notions of modality and argumentation and lays down the
central research questions of the book, which revolve around modality in relation to the …

The annotation of argument schemes represents an important step for argumentation
mining. General guidelines for the annotation of argument schemes, applicable to any topic …

A macroscope is proposed and tested here for the discovery of the unique argumentative
footprint that characterizes how a collective (eg, group, online community) manages …

French, just like English, German, Dutch, and other languages, does not have any obligatory
evidential marker. Most units with an evidential function are lexical and are thus optional …

This paper investigates the role of verbs of appearance as argumentative indicators
analyzing the uses of the Italian verb sembrare ('to seem') in a sample of 40 texts chosen …

El objetivo de este artículo es presentar cómo se puede aplicar el análisis de datos
textuales para el estudio de la argumentación. Se trata de una metodología alternativa que …

This article explores aspects of modal marker use in English and Greek and suggests that
parallel data may significantly contribute to raising learners' intercultural sensitivity in the FL …

This article aims to show how textual data analysis can be applied to the study of
argumentation. This is an alternative methodology allowing to trace back massive qualitative …

Argumentative indicators of discourse relations constitute crucial cues for the mining of
arguments. However, a comprehensive lexicon of these linguistic devices is so far lacking …

This contribution aims at providing an argumentative method to account for epistemic
modality and evidentiality. I claim that these two linguistic categories can work as semantic …