The main objective of this research is to investigate the epistemic and pragmatic
management of patient-doctor interactions in Italian online health communities. To achieve …

Viewing conversations from an epistemic perspective involves analysing how participants
navigate their knowledge, handle uncertainty, and address their lack of knowledge. This …

The COVID-19 emergency underlined the importance of an effective public health
communication to limit the spread of the outbreak. Physicians as “public experts” can play a …

Credible expertise is no longer a given in our contemporary democracy: for knowledge to be
authoritative, experts must take into account a wider audience than just scientific colleagues …

This study explores teachers' use of hypothetical situations (HSs) in primary school
classrooms and aims to generate new insights into the facilitation of student participation …

This study aims to analyse Italian Internet users' comments on two posts that appeared on
the Facebook page of the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera during a particularly …

Hypothetical questions are a category of conditional questions that manipulate the
representation of causal relations and reinforce the persuasiveness of the message. The …

This paper examines the relation between hypotheticals and epistemic stance in jury trials,
and it reveals how hypothetically framed questions (HQs) are used in cross-examination to …