Argumentative Style

A pragma-dialectical study of functional variety in argumentative discourse

| University of Amsterdam & Leiden University
| University of Amsterdam
| Università della Svizzera italiana
| Leiden University
| Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
| University of Guadalajara
| Jiangsu University
Hardbound – Forthcoming
ISBN 9789027211354 | EUR 99.00 | USD 149.00
 
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Argumentative Style discusses the various ways in which the defence of a standpoint is given shape in argumentative discourse. In this innovative study the new notion – ‘argumentative style’ – introduced for this purpose is situated in the theoretical framework of the pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation. This means that the choices involved in utilising a particular argumentative style do not only concern the presentational dimension, but also the topical selection and the audience adaptation of the strategic manoeuvring taking place in the discourse. In identifying the functional variety of the argumentative styles utilised in the political, the diplomatic, the legal, the facilitatory, the academic, and the medical domain, the point of departure is that these argumentative styles manifest themselves in the discourse in the argumentative moves that are made, the dialectical routes that are chosen and the strategic considerations that are brought to bear.
[Argumentation in Context, 20]  Expected August 2022.  x, 325 pp. + index
Publishing status: In production
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
“ Argumentative Style is the joint product of a group of seven experienced scholars who follow the productive pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation and Frans van Eemeren’s insights on style published in 2019. The opening chapters set the theoretical ground rules of analysis and identify two comprehensive types of argumentative style, the detached and engaged. These are carried through the remaining seven chapters covering specific contexts and activity types in important argument domains. With exemplary clarity, the authors tie their explorations to the dimensions and stages of argumentation, offering readers a model of precise, theoretically rigorous stylistic analysis.”
“This book brings clarity to the complex topic of argumentative style. Understood as how argumentation is conducted – including the analytic overview, dialectical route, and strategic design – argumentative style, seen in the stages of an argumentative discourse, reveals how arguers attempt to convince their audiences of the acceptability of standpoints. The empirical studies reported are a vivid example of the cutting-edge work driving today’s research.”
“This outstanding and hugely important study is both theoretically and empirically innovative. Van Eemeren and his colleagues have succeeded in redefining the concept of ‘style’ in a new and adequate way, useful for and applicable to analysing strategic manoeuvring in real-life interactions, in the context of a range of relevant social fields – from political advertising to parliamentary debates and medical decision-making. This book is a must-read for anybody interested in understanding and explaining the plethora of frequently polarised and complex debates which we are all confronted with in our ever more globalised world.”
Subjects & Metadata

Communication Studies

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Discourse studies
Pragmatics
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009030 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics
ONIX Metadata
ONIX 2.1
ONIX 3.0
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2022015507