Fabrizio Macagno

Fabrizio Macagno (Ph.D. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, 2008) is a researcher and invited assistant professor at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. His current research, between the fields of linguistics and philosophy of language, is focused on the persuasive use of emotive language and on the dialectical dimension of discourse implicitness, which he analyzes within the contexts of legal and political discourse. He applies the theoretical models developed to the context of education, proposing methods for analyzing classroom discourse and conversation. He is the author of several papers on definition, informal fallacies, argumentation schemes, and dialogue theory published in major international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Argumentation, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Informal Logic, and Pragmatics and Cognition. His most important publications include the books Argumentation Schemes (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Emotive Language in Argumentation (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation (Springer, 2017).