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Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peng Wu
[Argumentation in Context 12] 2017
► pp. 177–192

Chapter 11
Strategic maneuvering with presentational choices in Dutch parliamentary debate

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Strategic maneuvering
  • 3.Characteristics of Dutch parliamentary debate as communicative activity type
    • 3.1Institutional goal
    • 3.2Audiences
    • 3.3Norms and conventions
    • 3.4Summary
  • 4. A case study: Strategic presentational choices by Mr. Wilders
    • 4.1Norm-breaking argumentative strategies and presentational choices
    • 4.2Argumentative strategy A: Portraying the opponent in the debate or in the society as stupid, incompetent or inferior etc.
    • 4.3Argumentative strategy B: Offering little or no room to exchange arguments about standpoints
      • 4.3.1The absence of subordinate clauses
      • 4.3.2Use of the extremes of a semantic scale
      • 4.3.3Definite articles
      • 4.3.4 Implicitness
    • 4.4Summary
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 December 2017
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