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Publication details [#35272]

Hatim, Basil. 1991. The pragmatics of argumentation in Arabic: The rise and fall of a text type. Text 11 (2) : 189–199.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argumentation | communication breakdown | intercultural communication | pragmatics | text type

Language as a subject

Arabic

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0165-4888

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper examines crosscultural differences in argumentation between different languages and within the same language and deals with texts as carriers of ideological meaning. An example is given of a specific form of counter-argumentation in Arabic as a case of communicative deficiency.