Argumentation in Actual Practice
Topical studies about argumentative discourse in context
Argumentation in Actual Practice contains a collection of topical studies about argumentative discourse in context written by argumentation scholars from a diversity of academic backgrounds. Some contributions provide general perspectives, other contributions deal with specific issues, particular types of argumentative discourse or individual argumentative speech events. The contexts in which argumentation is examined vary from politics and the media to medical, juridical, educational, commercial or military contexts, a specific academic discipline, a special issue or pertain to all kinds of contextualised argumentative discourse. The issues discussed include the interpretation and analysis of argumentation, strategic manoeuvring, argument schemes, the stock issues, the fallacies, the principle of charity and the persuasiveness of argumentative discourse. A common feature is that they are all empirically-oriented and that virtually all of them are strongly concerned with an adequate understanding of contextualised argumentative discourse and the factors that may increase or decrease its reasonableness and effectiveness.
[Argumentation in Context, 17] 2019. xiv, 336 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 9 September 2019
Published online on 9 September 2019
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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List of contributors | pp. ix–xiv
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Chapter 1. A collection of studies of argumentation in practiceFrans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen | pp. 1–12
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Chapter 2. Analyzing versus interpreting argumentation: A clear-cut opposition or two poles on a continuous line?Marianne Doury | pp. 13–32
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Chapter 3. Television dispositives and the enactment of advocacy argumentsIrina Diana Mădroane | pp. 33–60
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Chapter 4. Dissociation as strategic maneuvering in spokespersons’ argumentative replies at Chinese diplomatic press conferencesPeng Wu | pp. 61–84
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Chapter 5. Re-visiting Richard Nixon’s “Checkers” speech: Why argumentation critics need an audience-centered principle of rhetorical charityScott Jacobs | pp. 85–102
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Chapter 6. Strategic ambiguity as an argumentative resource: The case of Lyndon Johnson, 50 years laterDavid Zarefsky | pp. 103–116
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Chapter 7. Argument and ultimate definition in Donald Trump’s worldviewRobert C. Rowland | pp. 117–136
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Chapter 8. Understanding abusive argumentum ad hominem through rhetorical context: Donald Trump’s ad hominem in the 2016 Presidential CampaignSara A. Mehltretter Drury and Dale A. Herbeck | pp. 137–156
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Chapter 9. Radically reframing the climate debate: The rhetorical strategies of The Hartwell PaperJean Goodwin | pp. 157–172
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Chapter 10. Prototypical argumentative patterns in activist discourse: The case of the Greenpeace Detox CampaignEmanuele Brambilla | pp. 173–194
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Chapter 11. “Argumentexturing”: A framework for integrating theories of argumentation and learningMichael J. Baker and Baruch B. Schwarz | pp. 195–210
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Chapter 12. Shifting from a monological to a dialogical perspective on children’s argumentation: Lessons learnedAnne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, Rebecca Schär, Sara Greco, Josephine Convertini, Antonio Iannaccone and Andrea Rocci | pp. 211–236
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Chapter 13. Characteristics of argumentation in consultations about palliative systemic treatment for advanced cancer: An observational content analysisAranka Akkermans, Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Nanon H. M. Labrie, Inge Henselmans and Hanneke W. M. van Laarhoven | pp. 237–266
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Chapter 14. Interpretative legal argumentation and the Rule of Law as the Rule of ReasonsHarm Kloosterhuis and Carel Smith | pp. 267–280
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Chapter 15. Protection stories: A case of military propaganda?Ola Bøe-Hansen and Tone Kvernbekk | pp. 281–298
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Chapter 16. On philosophical argumentation: Towards a pragma-dialectical solution of a puzzleFernando Leal | pp. 299–320
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Chapter 17. And then you are left holding the baby! Strategic manoeuvring with the argumentum ad consequentiamFrans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen | pp. 321–334
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Index
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Cited by five other publications
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Šimšíková, Annamária
2024. Dialogue as a Principle of Education. In Intellectual and Learning Disabilities - Inclusiveness and Contemporary Teaching Environments [Education and Human Development, 13],
Ravanis, Konstantinos
2022. Research Trends and Development Perspectives in Early Childhood Science Education: An Overview. Education Sciences 12:7 ► pp. 456 ff.
Convertini, Josephine
2021. Psychosocial Obstacles in Young Children Argumentative Interactions. Education Sciences 11:5 ► pp. 224 ff.
Convertini, Josephine & Francesco Arcidiacono
2021. Embodied Argumentation in Young Children in Kindergarten. Education Sciences 11:9 ► pp. 514 ff.
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Subjects
Communication Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN015000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric