Maria Grazia Rossi

E.mail: mgrazia.rossi@fcsh.unl.pt

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Bio note

Maria Grazia Rossi (Ph.D Università di Messina, Messina, 2012) works as post-doc researcher at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Her current research, in the fields of philosophy of language and healthcare communication, focus on the role of metaphors as argumentative tools to foster patient understanding. She has worked on metaphors and emotions as reasoning and decision-making tools, especially in the medical and moral context. She published a monograph, several articles and edited books, among which "Metaphor in Communication, Science and Education” (De Gruyter, 2017, with F. Ervas and E. Gola), “The ethical convenience of non-neutrality in medical encounters. Argumentative instruments for healthcare providers” (Teoria, 2017, Rossi M.G., Leone D. & Bigi S.) and “Metaphors for patient education: a pragmatic-argumentative approach applying to the case of diabetes care” (RIFL, 2016).

Academic Expertise and Research interests

Metaphor theory, Medical argumentation, Communication in chronic care, Emotion theory

Publications

Books

• Rossi M.G. (2013), Il giudizio del sentimento. Emozioni, giudizi morali e natura umana, Editori Riuniti University Press, Roma. 

Journal articles (last 3 years)

• Rossi M.G., Leone D. & Bigi S. (2017), The ethical convenience of non-neutrality in medical encounters. Argumentative instruments for healthcare providers, in «Teoria», 2, pp. 139-157.
• Rossi M.G. & Bigi S. (2017), mHealth for diabetes support: a systematic review of apps available on the Italian market, in «mHealth», 3:16. DOI: doi: 10.21037/mhealth.2017.04.06 
• Ervas F., Montibeller M., Rossi M.G. & Salis P. (2017), Expertise and metaphors in health communication, in «Medicina & Storia», XVI, 9-10, pp. 91-108.
• Rossi M.G. (2016), Metaphors for patient education: a pragmatic-argumentative approach applying to the case of diabetes care, in «RIFL. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio», 10, 2, pp. 34-48. DOI: 10.4396/20161205 
• Ervas F., Gola E.& Rossi M.G. (2016), Come affinare le armi della seduzione: emozioni e vigilanza epistemica, in «Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio», RIFL/SFL(2015), pp. 38-52. DOI: 10.4396/2015SFL04
• Ervas F., Gola E.& Rossi M.G. (2016), Argomenti metaforici: come integrare persuasione e argomentazione, in «RIFL. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio», RIFL/BC, pp. 116-128. DOI: 10.4396/2016BC09
• Rossi M.G. & Bigi S. (2016), Weak Educational Components in mHealth Devices for Diabetes Support Available on the Italian Market, in «Journal of diabetes science and technology», vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 1199-1200. 
• Rossi M.G. (2014), Emozioni e deliberazione razionale, in «Sistemi intelligenti», 1, pp. 161-169.

Edited books and book chapters

• Ervas F., Gola E. & Rossi M.G. (forth.), Argumentation as a bridge between metaphor and reasoning, in Oswald S., Jacquin J. & Herman (eds), Argumentation & Language. Linguistic, cognitive and discursive explorations, Springer, Berlin.
• Ervas F., Gola E. & Rossi M.G. (2017) (eds.), Metaphor in Communication, Science and Education, De Gruyter, Berlin. 
• Ervas F., Gola E.& Rossi M.G. (2017), How embodied cognition still matters to metaphor studies. In Ervas F., Gola E.& Rossi M.G. (eds.), Metaphor in Communication, Science and Education, De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 1-25.
• Marcacci F. & Rossi M.G. (2017) (eds.), Reasoning, metaphor and science, Isonomia - Epistemologica, vol. 9. 
• Marcacci F. & Rossi M.G. (2017), Reasoning by Metaphors in Science, Philosophy and Practice. In Marcacci F. & Rossi M.G. (eds.), Reasoning, metaphor and science, Isonomia - Epistemologica, vol. 9, pp. 7-22.
• Angelucci A., Graziani P. & Rossi M.G. (2016), The Uncanny Valley: a Working Hypothesis. In Nørskov M. (eds.), Social Robots. Boundaries, Potential, Challenges, Amsterdam - Berlin - Tokyo - Washington DC: IOS Press.
• Angelucci A., Graziani P. & Rossi M.G. (2014), A Philosophical Look at the Uncanny Valley. In Seibt J., Hakli R., and Nørskov M. (eds.), Sociable Robots and the Future of Social Relations. Amsterdam - Berlin - Tokyo - Washington DC: IOS Press, pp. 165-171.

Dissemination works

• Rossi M.G. (2016), Metaphors, argumentation and health communication, RaAM Newsletter, July 2016, p. 17.
• Bigi S. & Rossi M.G. (2015), Comunicare nel(la) Cronicità, in «Media», 15, pp. 1-4. 

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