Arcidiacono, Francesco Pontecorvo, Clotilde Morasso, Sara Greco 2009 This paper investigates how to reconstruct and evaluate argumentation in the context of Italian family conversations. By means of a case study, we show how understanding context is essential for the analytical reconstruction of argumentation. Within conversations at dinnertime, we rely on insights from Conversation and Discourse Analysis in order to interpret context-bound communicative and argumentative moves among family members. The analysis of the family exchange offers to us a view of how argumentation shapes the communicative practices occurring at dinnertime and how it can foster a critical attitude in the process of decision-making carried out in this context. application/pdf https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1318299 https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/318299 https://susi.usi.ch/documents/318299/files/GrecoMorasso_SCS_2009.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/ark/12658/srd1318299 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Studies in communications sciences. - Università della Svizzera italiana. - 2009, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 79-92 Argumentation analytical reconstruction family conversations context evaluation socialization info:eu-repo/classification/udc/65 Family conversations : the relevance of context in evaluating argumentation http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501