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Argumentative Style: A pragma-dialectical study of functional variety in argumentative discourseFrans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Sara Greco, Ton van Haaften, Nanon Labrie, Fernando Leal and Peng Wu
[Argumentation in Context 20] 2022
► pp. 147–188
Chapter 8Argumentative style in civil court’s judgments
Article outline
- 8.1Institutional background of Dutch civil lawsuits
- 8.2The van Gelder against the Dutch Olympic Committee case
- 8.3Analysis of the argumentative discourse in the judgment
- 8.3.1The analytically relevant argumentative moves
- 8.3.2The dialectical route
- 8.3.3The strategic considerations
- 8.4Characteristics of the argumentative style in the civil judgment
- 8.4.1The identification of argumentative styles
- 8.4.2Characteristics of the argumentational argumentative style
- 8.4.3Characteristics of the confrontational, opening, and concluding argumentative style
- 8.5Conclusion
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