This volume introduces a theoretical proposal based on fifteen years of research on
inference in argumentation. The fruit of our work, called the Argumentum Model of Topics …

While scientific evidence on argumentation among preschool children is on the rise, it is
dispersed over a number of different fields, which may obfuscate its visibility, merit, and …

Abstract The implementation of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
(STEM) at school is one of the challenges of education in the twenty-first century, especially …

This paper proposes a methodological synthesis in order to study multimodal media
discourse and argumentation in the context of the so-called 'refugee crisis' in Greece. It …

This article attempts to highlight inscriptions, ie, photographs, drawings, diagrams, or graphs
as autonomous carriers of meaning that can illuminate the different dimensions of a scientific …

When two-to six-year-old children produce argumentation, how do they reason? Our
interdisciplinary team of linguists and psychologists has two aims in addressing this …

Adversative connectives have been analyzed as articulating explicit and implicit facets of
argumentative moves and have been thus recognized as potential argumentative indicators …

Oral argumentation skills have become a 'hot topic'within pragmatic language acquisition
research as well as didactical research. In this study, we first discuss characteristics specific …

This book series highlights the variety of argumentative practices that have become
established in modern society by focusing on the study of context-dependent characteristics …

This study focuses on social interactions during family mealtimes to examine the types of
arguments used by parents to convince their children to eat. The results of this study show …