Exploring Argumentative Contexts

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Frans H. van Eemeren | University of Amsterdam

Bart Garssen | University of Amsterdam

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In Exploring Argumentative Contexts Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen bring together a broad variety of essays examining argumentation as it occurs in seven communicative domains: the political context, the historical context, the legal context, the academic context, the medical context, the media context, and the financial context. These essays are written by an international group of argumentation scholars, consisting of Corina Andone, Sarah Bigi, Robert T. Craig, Justin Eckstein, Frans H. van Eemeren, Norman Fairclough, Eveline Feteris, Gerd Fritz, Bart Garssen, Kara Gilbert, Thomas Gloning, G. Thomas Goodnight, Dale A. Herbeck, Darrin Hicks, Thomas Hollihan, Jos Hornikx, Isabela Ieţcu-Fairclough, Gábor Kutrovátz, Maurizio Manzin, Davide Mazzi, Dima Mohammed, Rudi Palmieri, Angela G. Ray, Patricia Riley, Robert C. Rowland, Peter Schulz, Karen Tracy, and Gergana Zlatkova.

[Argumentation in Context, 4] 2012. xx, 398 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 16 March 2012

https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.4

Table of Contents

List of contributors | pp. ix–xii

Introduction

Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen | pp. xiii–xx

Part I. Political context

Chapter 1. The reasonableness of confrontational strategic maneuvering in political interviews

Corina Andone | pp. 1–22

Chapter 2. Values as premises in practical arguments: Conceptions of justice in the public debate over bankers’ bonuses

Isabela Fairclough and Norman Fairclough | pp. 23–42

Chapter 3. Exploiting the room for strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse: Dealing with audience demand in the European Parliament

Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen | pp. 43–58

Chapter 4. Strategic communication: How governments frame arguments in the media

Patricia Riley and Thomas A. Hollihan | pp. 59–78

Chapter 5. Arguments about ‘rhetoric’ in the 2008 US presidential election campaign

Robert T. Craig | pp. 79–94

Part II. Historical context

Chapter 6. Making history by analogy: Frederick Douglass remembers William the Silent

Angela G. Ray | pp. 95–114

Chapter 7. Analogy in history: A corpus-based study

Davide Mazzi | pp. 115–134

Part III. Legal context

Chapter 8. A rhetorical approach to legal reasoning: The Italian experience of CERMEG

Maurizio Manzin | pp. 135–148

Chapter 9. Strategic manoeuvring in the case of the ‘Unworthy spouse’

Eveline T. Feteris | pp. 149–164

Chapter 10. Everyday argument strategies in Appellate Court argument about same-sex marriage

Karen Tracy | pp. 165–178

Chapter 11. Student speech in public schools: A case study in definitional argument

Dale A. Herbeck | pp. 179–194

Part IV. Academic context

Chapter 12. Expert authority and ad verecundiam arguments

Gábor Kutrovátz | pp. 195–212

Chapter 13. Critique and controversy in digital scientific communication: New formats and their affordances

Gerd Fritz and Thomas Gloning | pp. 213–232

Part V. Medical context

Chapter 14. Drug advertising and clinical practice: Positing biopolitics in clinical communication

G. Thomas Goodnight and Kara Gilbert | pp. 233–254

Chapter 15. Argumentative insights for the analysis of direct-to-consumer advertising

Dima Mohammed and Peter J. Schulz | pp. 255–268

Chapter 16. The battle for health care reform and the liberal public sphere

Robert C. Rowland | pp. 269–288

Chapter 17. Contextual constraints on argumentation: The case of the medical encounter

Sarah Bigi | pp. 289–304

Part VI. Media context

Chapter 18. The effects of hedges and pledges in advertisements for high and low reputation brands

Jos Hornikx | pp. 305–320

Chapter 19. Higher-order strategic maneuvering by shifting standards of reasonableness in cold-war editorial argumentation

Darrin Hicks and Justin Eckstein | pp. 321–340

Part VII. Financial context

Chapter 20. The diversifying of contextual constraints and argumentative strategies in friendly and hostile takeover bids

Rudi Palmieri | pp. 341–376

Chapter 21. Reported argumentation in economic-financial news

Gergana Zlatkova | pp. 377–392

Name index | pp. 393–396

Subject index | pp. 397–398

“I would highly recommend it to students or researchers interested in argumentation research in different fields.”

Haipeng Hu, Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, in Discourse Studies Vol.16:5 (2014), pp. 699-701

“ Exploring Argumentative Contexts constitutes an evident proof of the growing attention of argumentation scholars to the context where arguments are applied.”

Eddo Rigotti, Università della Svizzera italiana, in Journal of Argumentation in Context Vol. 3:2 (2014), pp. 199-218

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