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Pragmatic perspectives on disagreement
Edited by Jennifer Schumann and Steve Oswald
[Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 12:1] 2024
► pp. 1–16
Introduction

Pragmatic perspectives on disagreement

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The introduction to this special issue provides an overview of the notion of disagreement in relation to argumentative practices and presents the rationale for investigating disagreement management in argumentative discourse from a pragmatic perspective. It describes how existing accounts of disagreement in argumentation have focused on limited instances of the phenomenon, both in terms of its pragmatic embedding (which has predominantly focused on assertive speech acts) and of its scope (which usually covers the normative dimension of argumentative quality). The contributions to this special issue are then presented and contextualised within this broader topic to expound how each of them addresses key pragmatic aspects of disagreement management in argumentative discourse.

Keywords: pragmatics, argumentation, disagreement, meaning-making resources
Article outline
  • 1.Disagreement, argumentation, and pragmatics
  • 2.Pragma-linguistic aspects of disagreement in argumentative frameworks
    • 2.1Disagreement in the pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation
    • 2.2Studying meaning-making resources for the study of disagreement in argumentation
    • 2.3Pragmatic embedding and pragmatic scope of disagreement
  • 3.Contributions to this special issue
  • Notes
  • References
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Published online: 7 June 2024
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00094.sch
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