Volume 124 (2012), Issue 4

Comment is a pragmatic function where argumentation, enunciation, modality and information concur. It includes operators, connectives, and interclausal relations. Comment operators mark the evaluation of the speaker about the propositional content...

The art of rhetoric provides a large collection of forms to express certain subjects, that rise some kind of debate at the end of seventeenth century. Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle wrote a brief essay about human happiness, one of the most...