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Journal of Argumentation in Context
Vol. 10:2 (2021) ► pp.145–170

Strategic maneuvering in extended polylogues

| Budapest University of Technology and Economics
This paper presents the analysis of the Hungarian nuclear expansion controversy using a conceptual framework that links strategic maneuvering with an extended polylogical controversy and evaluates the strategic maneuvering of political, environmentalist and expert actors. The paper aims to show that the three aspects of strategic maneuvering (audience demand, topical potential, presentational devices) are flexible enough that they can be analyzed when the object of study is not a spatially and temporally localized argumentative situation, but a decade-long debate with multiple actors. In 2014, Hungary signed a deal with Russia to finance 80% of the investment costs and supply two new reactors to maintain the 40–50% of nuclear energy in the national energy production.
Keywords: argumentation, deliberation, nuclear energy, policy, polylogue, strategic maneuvering
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The extended polylogue of the expansion
  • 3.The results of public opinion polls and audience demand
  • 4.The topics of discourse and topical potential
  • 5.The presentational devices of an extended controversy
  • 6.Fully-fledged argumentative strategy
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Availability of data
  • References
Published online: 5 July 2021
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