Location
Room 1
Document Type
Paper
Keywords
argumentation in discourse, Argumentum Model of Topics (AMT), headlines, inference, Italian press, Key Component (KC) table, multimodality, news articles, press photographs, refugee crisis
Start Date
3-6-2020 11:00 AM
End Date
3-6-2020 12:00 PM
Abstract
This paper sketches a methodological integration of tools from multimodal discourse analysis and argumentation in order to unveil opaque argumentative inferences emerging in multimodal configurations (i.e., headlines and press photos) of seemingly non-argumentative genres such as news articles. We offer illustrative examples from the Italian mainstream press in the context of the so-called European ‘refugee crisis.’ Overall, our methodologically oriented proposal aims to deepen the debate in the area of multimodal argumentation. To that end, we sketch a dialogue with other perspectives that specifically study argumentative inference in multimodal configurations. We contend that this approach enables a better examination of the argumentative potential that is implicitly sustained in multimodal configurations of news articles.
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This paper sketches a methodological integration of tools from multimodal discourse analysis and argumentation in order to unveil opaque argumentative inferences emerging in multimodal configurations (i.e., headlines and press photos) of seemingly non-argumentative genres such as news articles. We offer illustrative examples from the Italian mainstream press in the context of the so-called European ‘refugee crisis.’ Overall, our methodologically oriented proposal aims to deepen the debate in the area of multimodal argumentation. To that end, we sketch a dialogue with other perspectives that specifically study argumentative inference in multimodal configurations. We contend that this approach enables a better examination of the argumentative potential that is implicitly sustained in multimodal configurations of news articles.
