Emotive Language in Argumentation

Fabrizio Macagno (Ph.D. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,Milan, 2008) is a researcher and invited assistant professor at theFaculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova deLisboa, Portugal. His current research, between the fields oflinguistics and philosophy of language, is focused on the persuasiveuse of emotive language and on the dialectical dimension ofdiscourse implicitness, which he analyzes within the contexts oflegal and political discourse. He applies the theoretical modelsdeveloped to the context of education, proposing methods for analyzing classroom discourse and conversation. He is the author of several papers on definition, informal fallacies, argumentation schemes, and dialogue theory published in major international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Argumentation, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Informal Logic, and Pragmatics and Cognition. His most important publications include the books Argumentation Schemes (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Emotive Language in Argumentation (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation (Springer, 2017).