Jan Albert van Laar
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jan Albert van Laar plays a role.
2024 Chapter 3. Self-reference as an argumentative tool: Discourse by politicians and experts during the Covid-19 pandemic Self- and Other-Reference in Social Contexts: From global to local discourses, Nevala, Minna and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 39–61 | Chapter
In this chapter, we analyse how politicians and experts from Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain involved in the Covid-19 crisis construct self-reference on Twitter (currently X), combining linguistic approaches to person reference and argumentation theory. On the one hand, we show that uses are… read more
2021 Be reasonable!: How to be an optimist in the ‘Age of Unreason’ Journal of Argumentation in Context 10:2, pp. 226–244 | Article
Are we living in an age of unreason? And what to do about it? Can we combat unreason? We discuss situations in which one may presume to be confronted with unreasonable behavior by an interlocutor: fallacies, changing rules of the game, shifting to some other type of dialogue, and abandonment of… read more
2019 Criticism and justification of negotiated compromises: The 2015 Paris Agreement in Dutch parliament Environmental Argumentation, Lewiński, Marcin and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün (eds.), pp. 91–111 | Article
The paper focuses on conflicts about an already negotiated compromise, taking as its example a debate in Dutch parliament about the approval of the Paris Agreement on climate change of 2015. It deals with a variety of worries that opponents of approval may advance and the arguments in its… read more
2017 Chapter 2. Connection premises: Their character, criticism, and defence Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-disciplinary perspectives, Ilie, Cornelia and Giuliana Garzone (eds.), pp. 39–56 | Chapter
By presenting an argument, a proponent commits himself or herself to the adequacy of the connection between the argument’s premises and its conclusion. What is this connection, and when is it adequate? I deal with these questions by using insights and techniques from dialectical approaches to… read more
2017 Merel Boers (2016). A Controversy on Moral Judgment Journal of Argumentation in Context 6:2, pp. 268–270 | Review
2016 Fair and unfair strategies in public controversies Journal of Argumentation in Context 5:3, pp. 315–347 | Article
Contemporary theory of argumentation offers many insights about the ways in which, in the context of a public controversy, arguers should ideally present their arguments and criticize those of their opponents. We also know that in practice not all works out according to the ideal patterns:… read more
2011 The pragma-dialectical approach to circularity in argumentation Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren, Feteris, Eveline T., Bart Garssen and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.), pp. 265–280 | Article
2008 Pragmatic inconsistency and credibility Controversy and Confrontation: Relating controversy analysis with argumentation theory, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 163–179 | Article