Chapter 10
Prototypical argumentative patterns in activist discourse
The case of the Greenpeace Detox Campaign
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Corpus and methodology
- 3.Argumentative patterns and scientificity in Greenpeace reports
- 4.Argumentation in The Detox Catwalk
- 4.1Reconstruction of argumentation in The Detox Catwalk
- 5.Conclusion
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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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