Anca Gâţă

List of John Benjamins publications for which Anca Gâţă plays a role.

Journal

Developed within four French institutions, the research program “Argumenter en guerre” [Arguing at war time] investigated from 2012–2016 the “argumentative dynamics” of “war cultures”. One of its results is the collective volume, with the same umbrella title, consisting of an introductory essay… read more
This study is a contribution to the recently introduced notion of argumentative style (van Eemeren 2019) in the framework of the pragma-dialectical approach. It aims at characterizing a detached argumentative style, by focusing on a speech event pertaining to the communicative activity type… read more
In the framework of the extended pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting is approached in this study as a particular communicative activity type, which can be reconstructed as part of a critical discussion. CSR reports excerpts are viewed in… read more
Gâţă, Anca 2015 The strategic function of argumentative moves in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reportsScrutinizing Argumentation in Practice, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 297–312 | Article
A CSR report may be viewed as part of a virtual critical discussion in which the company acts as a protagonist claiming that their behaviour is responsible towards society. Social actors may be represented as virtual antagonists in the critical discussion who (virtually) doubt or critique this… read more
Andone, Corina and Anca Gâţă 2011 Maneuvering strategically with dissociation in a political interviewKeeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren, Feteris, Eveline T., Bart Garssen and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.), pp. 5–20 | Article