Chapter published in:
Prototypical Argumentative Patterns: Exploring the relationship between argumentative discourse and institutional context
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren
[Argumentation in Context 11] 2017
► pp. 31–52

Chapter 3
The role of pragmatic problem-solving argumentation in plenary debate in the European Parliament

Article outline
  • 3.1Introduction
  • 3.2The structure of legislative debate in the European Parliament
  • 3.3Problem-solving argumentation
  • 3.4Argumentation used to defend problem-solving argumentation
    • Argumentation to support the premise stating that there is a problem
    • Argumentation to support the premise that the proposal solves the problem
    • Argumentation to support the connecting premise
  • 3.5Argumentation to attack problem-solving argumentation
    • Argumentation to support the premise stating that there is no problem
    • Argumentation to support the premise stating that the legislation does not solve the problem
    • Argumentation to support the premise stating that the proposal is not feasible
    • Argumentation to support the premise stating that there are major disadvantages
    • Argumentation to support the premise stating that there are better means to solve the problem
  • 3.6Prototypical argumentative patterns
  • 3.7Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 14 August 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.11.03gar
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