L’argomento “ad hominem”: riflessioni sulle funzioni della violenza verbale

The aim of this paper is to argue that the attack against someone else, as a kind of argument ad hominem, has a civic utility when it gives issue to polemic antagonism. Verbal violence can therefore be seen as functional: a way to express dissension within society and to regulate it. In opposition t...

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Main Authors: Ruth Amossy, Adriana Colombini Mantovani (traduzione a cura di)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2010-05-01
Series:Altre Modernità
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/575