Argumentation Theory: A Pragma-Dialectical Perspective Hardback
by Frans H. van Eemeren
Part of the Argumentation Library series
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The book offers a compact but comprehensive introductory overview of the crucial components of argumentation theory.
In presenting this overview, argumentation is consistently approached from a pragma-dialectical perspective by viewing it pragmatically as a goal-directed communicative activity and dialectically as part of a regulated critical exchange aimed at resolving a difference of opinion.
As a result, the book also systematically explains how the constitutive parts of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, which are discussed in a number of separate publications, hang together. The following crucial topics are discussed: (1) argumentation theory as a discipline; (2) the meta-theoretical principles of pragma-dialectics; (3) the model of a critical discussion aimed at resolving a difference of opinion; (4) fallacies as violations of a code of conduct for reasonable argumentative discourse; (5) descriptive research of argumentative reality; (6) analysis as theoretically-motivated reconstruction; (7) strategic manoeuvring aimed at combining achieving effectiveness with maintaining reasonableness; (8) the conventionalization of argumentative practices; (9) prototypical argumentative patterns; (10) pragma-dialectics amidst other approaches. Argumentation Theory: A Pragma-Dialectical Perspective is clearly written and makes argumentation theory understandable to all scholars and advanced students interested in argumentation research.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:199 pages, 10 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 199 p. 10 illus.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:13/08/2018
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- ISBN:9783319953809
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:199 pages, 10 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 199 p. 10 illus.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:13/08/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9783319953809