Fabrizio Macagno

Fabrizio Macagno (Ph.D. in linguistics, 2008) works as an associate professor in the department of Linguistics at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa. He has coordinated national and international projects on dialogical practices in different contexts, including education and medical communication. He authored several papers on definition, informal fallacies, argumentation schemes, and dialogue theory published on major international peer-reviewed journals His most important publications include the books Argumentation Schemes (Cambridge University Press 2008), Emotive language in argumentation (CUP 2014), Interpreting straw man argumentation (Springer 2017) and Statutory interpretation: Pragmatics and argumentation (CUP 2021).