Accepted papers in national and international seminars and conferences:

2017

Sarah Bigi & Maria Grazia Rossi, Collaborative deliberation and metaphors as processes for effective healthcare provision in multicultural medical settings, 15th International Pragmatics Conference, 16-21 July 2017 - Belfast

Fabrizio Macagno & Maria Grazia Rossi, Metaphors and their misunderstanding: an analysis of doctor-patient interactions, 15th International Pragmatics Conference, 16-21 July 2017 - Belfast

Sarah Bigi & Fabrizio Macagno, Assessing the process of deliberation in chronic care medical interviews, 2nd European Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and Inference, 20-23 June 2017 - University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Sarah Bigi, Devising a toolkit for chronic care providers: Argumentation skills for ‘therapeutic persuasion’, 2nd European Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and Inference, 20-23 June 2017 - University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Maria Grazia Rossi, Il diabete in metafore. Un metodo pragmatico e argomentativo, XXIII Congresso Nazionale della Società di filosofia del linguaggio, 19-21 January 2017 - University of Bologna

Elisabetta Gola, Francesca Ervas, Maria Grazia Rossi, La metafora nella comunicazione scientifica: dall'effetto framing all'efficacia comunicativa in ambito sanitario, XXIII Congresso Nazionale della Società di filosofia del linguaggio, 19-21 January 2017 - University of Bologna

2016

Maria Grazia Rossi, Sarah Bigi & Fabrizio Macagno, The Role of Metaphors in Understanding and Reasoning in Medical Encounters, 14th International Conference on Communication in Healthcare, 7-10 September 2016 - University Convention Center Heidelberg

Sarah Bigi, Maria Grazia Rossi, Elisabeth Mayweg-Paus & Fabrizio Macagno, Assessing The Quality Of Deliberation In Chronic Care Encounters: An Interdisciplinary Approach, 14th International Conference on Communication in Healthcare, 7-10 September 2016 - University Convention Center Heidelberg

Sarah Bigi, Maria Grazia Rossi, Fabrizio Macagno, Daniela Leone & Elena Vegni, Combining RIAS with the Analysis of Dialogical Moves in Consultations: Insights and New Perspectives, 14th International Conference on Communication in Healthcare, 7-10 September 2016 - University Convention Center Heidelberg Poster

Maria Grazia Rossi, Sarah Bigi & Fabrizio Macagno, Metaphors for diabetes: A method of analysis and classification, 11th RaAM-conference “Metaphor in the Arts, in Media and Communication”, 1 – 4 July 2016 - Berlin

Sarah Bigi, Should argumentation skills be part of clinicians’ communicative competence? Challenges and advantages of combining interdisciplinary insights, Wake Forest University Argumentation Conference. The Venice Conference: Argumentation across disciplines, 30 May-2 June 2016 - Venice (invited talks)

2015

Sarah Bigi & Maria Grazia Rossi, Healthy Reasoning: La cura del diabete tra linguistica e argomentazione, II Incontro di studi tra medici e linguisti. Lingua e patologia: le frontiere interdisciplinari del linguaggio, 10-11 December 2015 - Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” Poster

Sarah Bigi & Maria Grazia Rossi, ICTs for the medical profession: an application in chronic care, 5th International Conference "Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP)", 5-7 November 2015 - University of Milan Presentation download

Francesca Ervas, Elisabetta Gola & Maria Grazia Rossi, Come affinare le armi della seduzione: emozioni e vigilanza epistemica, XXII Congresso Nazionale della Società di filosofia del linguaggio, 1-3 Otctober 2015 -  Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Francesca Ervas, Elisabetta Gola & Maria Grazia Rossi, Metaphors and Emotions as Framing Strategies in Argumentation, EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science, 25-27 Setptember 2015 - Turin

Francesca Ervas, Elisabetta Gola & Maria Grazia Rossi, A bridge between metaphor and reasoning, International Conference on Argumentation and Language, 9-11 Setptember 2015 - University of Lauosanne

Sarah Bigi & Fabrizio Macagno, Types of dialogue and pragmatic ambiguity, International Conference on Argumentation and Language, 9-11 Setptember 2015 - Università di Lausanne

Sarah Bigi & Fabrizio Macagno, Presupposing as presumptive reasoning: analyzing the implicit grounds in doctor-patient chronic care consultations, 14th International Pragmatics Conference, 26-31 lJuly 2015 - University of Antwerp

Sarah Bigi, Achieving effective dialogues in chronic care: a model for analysis and intervention, Simposio “Communication in Medicine”, 12 June 2015 - University of Milan (invited talk)

Sarah Bigi, Chronic care consultation as a subtype of education dialogue: a new context or the study of argumentation in education, European Conference on Argumentation, 9-12 June 2015 - Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Sarah Bigi & Nanon Labrie, Criteria for the reconstruction and analysis of doctors' argumentation in the context of chronic care, European Conference on Argumentation, 9-12 June 2015 - Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Sarah Bigi, Maria Grazia Rossi, Serena Barello, Guendalina Graffigna, Maria Francesca Mulas & Nicoletta Musacchio, Speaking Wisely: pratiche dialogiche appropriate in diabetologia, XX Congresso Nazionale AMD, 13-16 May 2015 - Genoa Poster download

Sarah Bigi, Serena Barello, Guendalina Graffigna, Fabrizio Macagno & Maria Grazia Rossi, Pratiche Argomentative Positive e Coinvolgimento Attivo del Paziente in Diabetologia, seminar, 28 February 2015 - Milan (Gruppo AMD - Diabetologia Misurata)

Sarah Bigi, 'Healthy reasoning': using heuristics in medical decision making, 4 February 2015 - Universidade Nova de Lisboa (invited seminar)

2014

Sarah Bigi, Doctors coping with patients’ irrationality in a chronic care setting: can argumentation become a therapeutic resource?, Eighth ISSA Conference, 1-4 July 2014 - University of Amsterdam

Sarah Bigi, The use of communication in a chronic care setting: results from a pilot project, “The Language of Medicine: Science, Practice and Academia”, Centro di Ricerca sui Linguaggi Specialistici, 19-21 June 2014 - University of Bergamo

Sarah Bigi, Il linguaggio come strumento di relazione, Workshop “Progetto Slow Medicine – Diabetologia Misurata”, 10 marzo 2014, Milan (invited talk)

2013

Sarah Bigi, Ilaria Ciullo, Annalisa Giancaterini & Nicoletta Musacchio, Challenges in chronic care: dispreferred responses and conceptual frames within the medical encounter in diabetes care, 4th Conference on Conversation Analysis & Clinical Encounters (CACE), 5-7 July 2013 - University of York (UK)

Sarah Bigi, From ideas to innovation: a research project in Linguistics and its impact on communication in diabetes care, Conferenza annuale VALS / ASLA, 13 May 2013 - University of Basel

Sarah Bigi, Ilaria Ciullo, Rosanna Gaiofatto, Annalisa Giancaterini, Silvia Maino, Laura Pessina & Nicoletta Musacchio, La comunicazione con il paziente diabetico: criticità e proposte, Congresso Nazionale AMD, 29 May – 1 June 2013, Rome

Sarah Bigi, Argomentare bene per curare meglio, Seminario “Brain&Dia: dai risultati della ricerca agli strumenti per il diabetologo”, 19 April 2013 - Milan (seminar)