Dialog Theory for Critical Argumentation
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Because of the need to devise systems for electronic communication on the internet, multi-agent computing is moving to a model of communication as a structured conversation between rational agents. For example, in multi-agent systems, an electronic agent searches around the internet, and collects certain kinds of information by asking questions to other agents. Such agents also reason with each other when they engage in negotiation and persuasion. It is shown in this book that critical argumentation is best represented in this framework by the model of reasoned argument called a dialog, in which two or more parties engage in a polite and orderly exchange with each other according to rules governed by conversation policies. In such dialog argumentation, the two parties reason together by taking turns asking questions, offering replies, and offering reasons to support a claim. They try to settle their disagreements by an orderly conversational exchange that is partly adversarial and partly collaborative.
[Controversies, 5] 2007. xviii, 308 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. xi–xii
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Acronyms | pp. xiii–xiv
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Introduction:: Dialog theory for critical argumentation | pp. xv–xviii
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Chapter 1. The place of dialog theory | pp. 1–45
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Chapter 2. The history of dialectic | pp. 47–88
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Chapter 3. Persuasion dialog | pp. 89–129
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Chapter 4. Multi-agent dialog systems | pp. 131–157
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Chapter 5. Agents in critical argumentation | pp. 159–203
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Chapter 6. Dialectical shifts and embeddings | pp. 205–245
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Chapter 7. Criticizing a natural language argument | pp. 247–287
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Index | pp. 303–307
“Walton's book is certainly a major landmark in the study of critical discussion, with detailed models and extensive exemplification (notably in chapters six and seven) that help grasping the indubitably logical basis of fair argumentation.”
Louis de Saussure, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in Pragmatics & Cognition, Vol. 17:2 (2009)
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Subjects
Communication Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN015000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric