Argumentation in Political Deliberation

Editors

Marcin Lewiński | Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Dima Mohammed | Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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The goal of this volume is to further the examination of the role, shape, and quality of argumentation in political deliberation. The chapters collected in the volume employ the concepts and methods developed within argumentation theory to investigate the specifics of political discourse across various deliberative arenas: from debates in the European Parliament, consensus conferences and public hearings in France, discussions in Dutch online forums, to exchanges of comments in online versions of British newspapers. In this way, the studies reveal the inner workings of argumentative interactions that constitute deliberative discourse – and thus importantly contribute to the study of public deliberation. This should be of interest to the students of argumentation, deliberation, and political discourse. In addition, the volume problematizes and theorizes some vital issues related to the study of situated argumentation, thus advancing the study of argumentation in context.
Originally published in Journal of Argumentation in Context, Vol. 2:1 (2013).

[Benjamins Current Topics, 76] 2015. v, 178 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.76

Table of Contents

Introduction | pp. 1–9

Articles

Strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse in political deliberation

Frans H. van Eemeren | pp. 11–31

Strategic maneuvering in European Parliamentary Debate

Bart Garssen | pp. 33–46

Pursuing multiple goals in European Parliamentary Debates: EU immigration policies as a case in point

Dima Mohammed | pp. 47–74

The place of counter discourse in two methods of public deliberation: The conférence de citoyens and the débat public on nanotechnologies in France

Marianne Doury and Assimakis Tseronis | pp. 75–100

Deliberation digitized: Designing disagreement space through communication-information services

Mark Aakhus | pp. 101–126

(How) do participants in online discussion forums create ‘echo chambers’? The inclusion and exclusion of dissenting voices in an online forum about climate change

Arthur Edwards | pp. 127–150

Debating multiple positions in multi-party online deliberation: Sides, positions, and cases

Marcin Lewiński | pp. 151–176

Subject index | pp. 177–178

“This book applies the perspective of argumentation theory to elucidating the ‘role, shape and quality of argumentation in political deliberation’. We strongly recommend it as a substantial contribution to the growing literature on the study of argumentation in specific contexts, and especially in politics.”

Isabela & Norman Fairclough, University of Central Lancashire and University of Lancaster

“How to improve the rational deliberative quality of political communication is an issue of growing public concern in liberal democracies and one that calls upon the insights of academic scholars in political theory, argumentation, rhetoric, communication studies, and other fields. While using the resources of argumentation analysis to illuminate problems of political deliberation, this volume extends argumentation theory in new directions to account for the influence of multiple goals and participants, complex positioning, and institutional design on political discourse in contexts ranging from parliamentary debates to online forums.”

Robert T. Craig, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Jacquin, Jérôme

2017. Chapter 9. Embodied argumentation in public debates. In Multimodal Argumentation and Rhetoric in Media Genres [Argumentation in Context, 14], ► pp. 240 ff.

Jakaza, Ernest

2023. (Re)thinking and (Re)theorising ‘Multi’ and Its Futures in Academic Discourse Studies. In Multidisciplinary Knowledge Production and Research Methods in Sub-Saharan Africa, ► pp. 91 ff.

Lewiński, Marcin & Dima Mohammed

2016. Argumentation Theory. In The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, ► pp. 1 ff.

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