Controversy and Confrontation

Relating controversy analysis with argumentation theory

Editors

Frans H. van Eemeren | University of Amsterdam

Bart Garssen | University of Amsterdam

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The essays that are collected in Controversy and Confrontation provide a closer insight into the relationship between controversy and confrontation that deepens our understanding of the functioning of argumentative discourse in managing differences of opinion. Their authors stem from two backgrounds. First, the controversy scholars Dascal, Marras, Euli, Regner, Ferreira, and Lessl discuss historical controversies in science, both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective; Saim concentrates on a historical controversy; Fritz provides a historical perspective on controversies by analyzing communication principles. Second the argumentation scholars Johnson, van Laar, van Eemeren, Garssen and Meuffels address theoretical or empirical aspects of argumentative confrontation; Aakhus and Vasilyeva examine argumentative discourse from the perspective of conversation analysis; Jackson analyzes argumentative confrontation in a recent debate between scientists and politicians. Last but not least, two contributors, Kutrovátz and Zemplén, make an attempt to bridge the study of historical controversy and the study of argumentation.

[Controversies, 6] 2008. xiii, 278 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cvs.6

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. vii–viii

List of contributors | pp. ix–xiii

Controversy and confrontation in argumentative discourse

Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen | pp. 1–26

Dichotomies and types of debate

Marcelo Dascal | pp. 27–49

Charles Darwin versus George Mivart: The role of polemics in science

Anna Carolina Regner | pp. 51–75

Scientific demarcation and metascience: The national academy of sciences on greenhouse warming and evolution

Thomas Lessl | pp. 77–91

Reforming the Jews, rejecting marginalization: The 1799 German debate on Jewish emancipation in its controversy context

Mirela Saim | pp. 93–108

Communication principles for controversies: A historical perspective

Gerd Fritz | pp. 109–124

On the role of pragmatics, rhetoric and dialectic in scientific controversies

Ademar Ferreira | pp. 125–133

A "dialectic ladder" of refutation and dissuasion

Cristina Marras and Enrico Euli | pp. 135–147

Responding to objections

Ralph H. Johnson | pp. 149–162

Pragmatic inconsistency and credibility

Jan Albert van Laar | pp. 163–179

Reasonableness in confrontation: Empirical evidence concerning the assessment of ad hominem fallacies

Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Bert Meuffels | pp. 181–195

Managing disagreement in multiparty deliberation

Mark Aakhus and Alena L. Vasilyeva | pp. 197–214

Predicaments of politicization in the debate over abstinence-only sex education

Sally Jackson | pp. 215–230

Rhetoric of science, pragma-dialectics, and science studies

Gábor Kutrovátz | pp. 231–247

Scientific controversies and the pragma-dialectical model: Analysing a case study from the 1670s, the published part of the Newton-Lucas correspondence

Gábor Zemplén | pp. 249–273

Index | pp. 275–278

“ Controversy and Confrontation is an ambitious cross-disciplinary work. [...] All in all, the result is an engaging piece of reading that reveals the impact that Van Eemeren and Grassen have had on argumentation theory generally. The inspiring contributions provide a good perspective for further research on argumentation theory as well as cognitive linguistics.”

Anna Kuzio, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

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