Argumentative patterns initiated by closed-list questions in accountability dialogues

Rocci, Andrea; Yaskorska-Shah, Olena; D'Agostino, Giulia; Lucchini, Costanza

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Argumentative patterns initiated by closed-list questions in accountability dialogues : a corpus study of financial conference calls

Rocci, Andrea ORCID Facoltà di comunicazione, cultura e società, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
Yaskorska-Shah, Olena ORCID Facoltà di comunicazione, cultura e società, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
D'Agostino, Giulia ORCID Facoltà di comunicazione, cultura e società, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
Lucchini, Costanza ORCID Facoltà di comunicazione, cultura e società, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera

2024

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European Conference on Argumentation (ECA). - 2024

English To illustrate a research strategy aiming at the discovery of recurrent contextually significant patterns in dialogic argumentative activity types, we investigate closed-list questions as a minimal argumentative pattern and as component of broader dialogical argumentative patterns, in the Q&A phase of Earnings Conference Calls, a key financial communication activity type. The argumentative affordances of closed-list questions are discussed as well as their formalisation in the metalanguage of Inference Anchoring Theory. A small corpus study provides verification of the hypothesized occurrence of activity-relevant uses of closed list questions for issue framing and for information elicitation as well as of the question’s potential in eliciting argumentative responses.

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