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Eemeren, F.H. van and Wu Peng, eds. 2017. Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics. (Argumentation in Context 12). John Benjamins. ix, 367 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English

Annotation

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 how the extended pragma-dialectical theory can be used to analyse and evaluate argumentative discourse in specific institutional contexts. Next to argumentative discourse in the legal domain and the medical context of health communication, a great deal of attention is paid to various argumentative practices in the political domain or dealing with specific social issues. A contribution on multimodal argumentation is also included.