Fabrizio Macagno (Ph.D. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, 2003) works as a researcher and auxiliary professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His current research, between the fields of Linguistics and Philosophy of language, is focused on the persuasive use of emotive language and on the dialectical dimension of discourse implicitness, which he analyzes within the contexts of legal and political discourse. He is author of several papers on definition, informal fallacies, argumentation schemes, and dialogue theory published on major international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Argumentation, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Informal Logic, and Pragmatics and Cognition. His most important publications include the books Argumentation Schemes (CUP 2008) and Emotive language in argumentation (CUP 2014). He also works as a forensic linguistic consultant at the international law firm Martinez & Novebaci.Website: http://fabriziomacagno.altervista.org/Personal page: https://fcsh-unl.academia.edu/FABRIZIOMACAGNO