Opis

Contents

5          Silvia Cavalieri, Renzo Mocini and Judith Turnbull, Introduction

11        Rita Salvi, Argumentation in academic discourse: The case of Nobel Prize lectures in Economic Sciences

41        Silvia Cavalieri, From abstracts to video-abstracts: Academic argumentation in genre hybridization

59        Renzo Mocini, Existential indicators in medical research papers

87        Cinzia Giglioni, Clinton’s hearing reaches headlines: The mediatisation of the Benghazi hearing in two leading U.S. newspapers

109      Douglas Ponton, Implicit argumentation: Media and the shaping of public opinion about Russia

137      Gaetano Falco, Metaphorical patterns and ideology in economic and financial discourse

163      Judith Turnbull, Museums as communicators: Teaching or sharing knowledge?

191         Silvia Cacchiani, Copyright & copyleft: Knowledge mediation at the interface of law and computer technology