Conference selection

ISSA 2023

Leiden, 4-7 July 2023

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Check out our selection of top titles for this conference!

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AIC 10

Argumentation across Communities of Practice

Multi-disciplinary perspectives

Edited by Cornelia Ilie and Giuliana Garzone

Featuring multidisciplinary and transcultural investigations, this volume showcases state-of-the-art scholarship about the impact of argumentation-based discourses and field-specific argumentation practices in a wide range of communities of practice belonging to the media, social, legal and political spheres. The... full description

November 2017. vi, 345 pp.

AIC 17

Argumentation in Actual Practice

Topical studies about argumentative discourse in context

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen

Argumentation in Actual Practice contains a collection of topical studies about argumentative discourse in context written by argumentation scholars from a diversity of academic backgrounds. Some contributions provide general perspectives, other contributions deal with specific issues, particular types of... full description

September 2019. xiv, 336 pp.

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Argumentation in Dispute Mediation

A reasonable way to handle conflict

Sara Greco

The context of mediation immediately highlights the importance of argumentation as a means to reasonably handle conflict. Argumentation in dispute mediation tackles this topic providing both theoretical insights and detailed empirical argumentative analysis. Its goal is twofold: to explore mediation as a real-life... full description

March 2011. xii, 291 pp.

AIC 5

Argumentation in Political Interviews

Analyzing and evaluating responses to accusations of inconsistency

Corina Andone

In Argumentation in Political Interviews Corina Andone uses the pragma-dialectical concept of strategic maneuvering to gain a better understanding of political interviews as argumentative practices. She analyzes and evaluates the way in which politicians react in political interviews to the accusation that the... full description

July 2013. viii, 147 pp.

AIC 15

Argumentation in Prime Minister’s Question Time

Accusation of inconsistency in response to criticism

Dima Mohammed

When political actors respond to criticism by pointing at an inconsistency in the critic’s position, a tricky political practice emerges. Turning the criticism back to the critic can be a constructive move that restores coherence, but it may also be a disruptive move that silences the critical voice and obstructs... full description

December 2018. xi, 162 pp.

AIC 13

Argumentation in the Newsroom

Marta Zampa

The news we see daily is selected from among alternatives by journalists. Argumentation in the Newsroom uses ethnographic data from Swiss television and print newsrooms to shed light on how journalists make decisions regarding the selection and presentation of news items in their daily professional practice. The... full description

December 2017. xiii, 211 pp.

AIC 19

An Argumentative Analysis of the Emergence of Issues in Adult-Children Discussions

Rebecca G. Schär

This book traces the issue in argumentative discussions from its emergence to its evolution. The book makes use of naturally occurred data of spoken argumentation to investigate how an issue is raised and possibly negotiated in argumentative discussions between young children (aged 2 to 6 years) and adults. The author... full description

April 2021. xv, 160 pp.

AIC 20

Argumentative Style

A pragma-dialectical study of functional variety in argumentative discourse

Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Sara Greco, Ton van Haaften, Nanon Labrie, Fernando Leal and Peng Wu

Argumentative Style discusses the various ways in which the defence of a standpoint is given shape in argumentative discourse. In this innovative study the new notion – ‘argumentative style’ – introduced for this purpose is situated in the theoretical framework of the pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation. This... full description

July 2022. x, 332 pp.

AIC 12

Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peng Wu

Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics contains a selection of 18 article reporting on research conducted in the past decade in which the institutional context in which argumentative discourse takes place is systematically taken into account. Some articles provide relevant theoretical backgrounds, other articles make clear... full description

December 2017. ix, 367 pp.

AIC 8

Corporate Argumentation in Takeover Bids

Rudi Palmieri

This volume systematically investigates the role of argumentation in takeover bids. The announcement of these financial proposals triggers an argumentative situation, in which both the economic desirability and the social acceptability of the deal become argumentative issues for different classes of stakeholders... full description

November 2014. xii, 274 pp.

AIC 1

Examining Argumentation in Context

Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren

Examining Argumentation in Context: Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering contains a selection of papers on strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse. Starting point of all of these contributions is that a satisfactory analysis and evaluation of strategic maneuvering is possible only if the argumentative... full description

June 2009. x, 305 pp.

AIC 4

Exploring Argumentative Contexts

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen

In Exploring Argumentative Contexts Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen bring together a broad variety of essays examining argumentation as it occurs in seven communicative domains: the political context, the historical context, the legal context, the academic context, the medical context, the media context, and the... full description

March 2012. xx, 398 pp.

AIC 6

Let's talk politics

New essays on deliberative rhetoric

Edited by Hilde Van Belle, Kris Rutten, Paul Gillaerts, Dorien Van De Mieroop and Baldwin Van Gorp

In this volume on political argumentation, the study of argument takes place within a rhetorical framework. As such, it is a contribution to the study of argumentation-in-context with an explicit rhetorical approach. Rather than focusing on the poor quality of political participation and political understanding by... full description

April 2014. viii, 208 pp.

AIC 14

Multimodal Argumentation and Rhetoric in Media Genres

Edited by Assimakis Tseronis and Charles Forceville

This collection advances the study of context-dependent characteristics of argumentative discourse by examining a variety of media genres in which text and image (and other semiotic modes) combine to create meaning. The chapters have been written by an international group of senior and junior scholars researching... full description

December 2017. ix, 301 pp.

AIC 7

Political Argumentation in the United States

Historical and contemporary studies

David Zarefsky

In the United States, political argumentation occurs in institutionalized settings and the broader public forum, in efforts to resolve conflict and efforts to foster it, in settings with time limits and controversies that extend over centuries. From the ratification of the U.S. Constitution to the presidency of Barack... full description

September 2014. x, 386 pp.

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Prototypical Argumentative Patterns

Exploring the relationship between argumentative discourse and institutional context

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren

Prototypical Argumentative Patterns reports about a research project started at the University of Amsterdam in 2012. In this project distinctive argumentative patterns have been identified in argumentative discourse in the political, the legal and the medical domain. These patterns consist of constellations of... full description

August 2017. ix, 184 pp.

AIC 18

The Quest for Argumentative Equivalence

Argumentative patterns in political interpreting contexts

Emanuele Brambilla

What are the implications of strategic manoeuvring for the activity of the simultaneous interpreter? This is the main question addressed in The Quest for Argumentative Equivalence. Based on the analysis of a multilingual comparable corpus named ARGO, the book investigates political argumentation with an eye to its... full description

February 2020. xv, 238 pp.

AIC 21

Responding to Questions at Press Conferences

Confrontational maneuvering by Chinese spokespersons

Peng Wu

Responding to Questions at Press Conferences makes clear how the spokespersons at China’s diplomatic press conferences maneuver strategically in defining the issues in the empirical counterpart of the confrontation stage when responding to the journalists’ questions and how this confrontational maneuvering is meant to... full description

March 2023. xiv, 188 pp.

AIC 9

Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen

Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice contains a selection of papers reflecting upon the use of argumentation in real life contexts. The first five sections are devoted to argumentation in a specific institutional context: scientific controversies, argumentation in politics, argumentation in a legal context,... full description

October 2015. ix, 343 pp.

AIC 16

Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change

A pragma-dialectical analysis of Egyptian anti-regime columns

Ahmed Abdulhameed Omar

In Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change, the author analyzes five political columns written before 2011 by Al Aswany, a prominent Egyptian novelist, using the lens of the extended pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation. What these texts have in common is the use of narrative, fictional and semi-literary... full description

February 2019. ix, 188 pp.

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Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse

Extending the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation

Frans H. van Eemeren

In Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse, Frans H. van Eemeren brings together the dialectical and the rhetorical dimensions of argumentation by introducing the concept of strategic maneuvering. Strategic maneuvering refers to the arguer’s continual efforts to reconcile aiming for effectiveness with being... full description

May 2010. xii, 308 pp.