This study focuses on argumentative texts as expressions of a fundamental communicative need and a crucial tool for the growth of responsible citizens. Starting from this point, we intend to analyse the complexity and relevance of the argumentative function by exploring its characterising linguistic features and focusing on its manifestation in various contemporary text genres, with particular attention to their didactic potential. The main educational objective, also assessed in the final examinations of first and second-cycle education, is in fact the development of the ability to produce and understand effective argumentative texts. School textbooks, however, often tend to overlook the extreme variability of forms, textual genres and communicative channels through which the argumentative function manifests itself. In these pages we emphasise precisely this diversity: by observing and analysing texts of different (and non-canonical) genres, including the review, we will see how such variety can enrich the teaching experience. At the same time, this approach will enable students to learn by means of familiar tools, textual genres and channels, while simultaneously being exposed to the richness of language varieties and their underlying mechanisms.
Questo studio si concentra sul testo argomentativo, considerato espressione di un bisogno comunicativo fondamentale e strumento cruciale per la formazione di cittadini responsabili. Partendo da questa premessa, si intende analizzare la complessità e la rilevanza della funzione argomentativa, esplorandone i tratti linguistici caratterizzanti, e lo si fa focalizzandosi sulla sua manifestazione in diversi generi testuali contemporanei, con un’attenzione particolare al loro potenziale didattico. Obiettivo formativo primario, oggetto di valutazione anche negli Esami conclusivi del primo e secondo ciclo di istruzione, è infatti lo sviluppo della capacità di produrre e comprendere testi argomentavi efficaci. I manuali scolastici, tuttavia, tendono spesso a trascurare l’estrema variabilità delle forme, dei generi testuali e dei canali comunicativi con cui si manifesta la funzione argomentativa. In queste pagine si pone l’accento proprio su questa diversità, mostrando, attraverso l’osservazione e l’analisi di alcuni testi concreti di tipo diverso (e non canonico), tra cui la recensione, come tale varietà possa arricchire l’esperienza didattica, consentendo agli studenti di apprendere grazie a strumenti, generi testuali e canali di fruizione a loro familiari, ed evidenziando al contempo la ricchezza delle varietà linguistiche e dei meccanismi che le governano.
Argomentare in contesto educativo: note sull’eterogeneità dei testi argomentativi
valentina bianchi
2025-01-01
Abstract
This study focuses on argumentative texts as expressions of a fundamental communicative need and a crucial tool for the growth of responsible citizens. Starting from this point, we intend to analyse the complexity and relevance of the argumentative function by exploring its characterising linguistic features and focusing on its manifestation in various contemporary text genres, with particular attention to their didactic potential. The main educational objective, also assessed in the final examinations of first and second-cycle education, is in fact the development of the ability to produce and understand effective argumentative texts. School textbooks, however, often tend to overlook the extreme variability of forms, textual genres and communicative channels through which the argumentative function manifests itself. In these pages we emphasise precisely this diversity: by observing and analysing texts of different (and non-canonical) genres, including the review, we will see how such variety can enrich the teaching experience. At the same time, this approach will enable students to learn by means of familiar tools, textual genres and channels, while simultaneously being exposed to the richness of language varieties and their underlying mechanisms.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


