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Argumentation theory is a distinctly multidisciplinary field of
inquiry. It draws its data, assumptions, and methods from
disciplines as disparate as formal logic and discourse analysis,
linguistics and forensic science, philosophy and psychology,
political science and education, sociology and law, and rhetoric
and artificial intelligence. This presents the growing group of
interested scholars and students with a problem of access, since it
is even for those active in the field not common to have acquired a
familiarity with relevant aspects of each discipline that enters
into this multidisciplinary matrix. This book offers its readers a
unique comprehensive survey of the various theoretical
contributions which have been made to the study of argumentation.
It discusses the historical works that provide the background to
the field and all major approaches and trends in contemporary
research.
Argument has been the subject of systematic inquiry for
twenty-five hundred years. It has been graced with theories, such
as formal logic or the legal theory of evidence, that have acquired
a more or less settled provenance with regard to specific issues.
But there has been nothing to date that qualifies as a unified
general theory of argumentation, in all its richness and
complexity. This being so, the argumentation theorist must have
access to materials and methods that lie beyond his or her "home"
subject. It is precisely on this account that this volume is
offered to all the constituent research communities and their
students. Apart from the historical sections, each chapter provides
an economical introduction to the problems and methods that
characterize a given part of the contemporary research program.
Because the chapters are self-contained, they can be consulted in
the order of a reader's interests or research requirements. But
there is value in reading the work in its entirety. Jointly
authored by the very people whose research has done much to define
the current state of argumentation theory and to point the way
toward more general and unified future treatments, this book is an
impressively authoritative contribution to the field.
Argumentation theory is a distinctly multidisciplinary field of
inquiry. It draws its data, assumptions, and methods from
disciplines as disparate as formal logic and discourse analysis,
linguistics and forensic science, philosophy and psychology,
political science and education, sociology and law, and rhetoric
and artificial intelligence. This presents the growing group of
interested scholars and students with a problem of access, since it
is even for those active in the field not common to have acquired a
familiarity with relevant aspects of each discipline that enters
into this multidisciplinary matrix. This book offers its readers a
unique comprehensive survey of the various theoretical
contributions which have been made to the study of argumentation.
It discusses the historical works that provide the background to
the field and all major approaches and trends in contemporary
research.
Argument has been the subject of systematic inquiry for
twenty-five hundred years. It has been graced with theories, such
as formal logic or the legal theory of evidence, that have acquired
a more or less settled provenance with regard to specific issues.
But there has been nothing to date that qualifies as a unified
general theory of argumentation, in all its richness and
complexity. This being so, the argumentation theorist must have
access to materials and methods that lie beyond his or her "home"
subject. It is precisely on this account that this volume is
offered to all the constituent research communities and their
students. Apart from the historical sections, each chapter provides
an economical introduction to the problems and methods that
characterize a given part of the contemporary research program.
Because the chapters are self-contained, they can be consulted in
the order of a reader's interests or research requirements. But
there is value in reading the work in its entirety. Jointly
authored by the very people whose research has done much to define
the current state of argumentation theory and to point the way
toward more general and unified future treatments, this book is an
impressively authoritative contribution to the field.
This book examines argumentative situations as they develop in
different cultures and language groups. It considers the
development of argumentation studies, making greater allowance for
the specificities of argument as developed by "non-mainstream
cultures"; the contribution of Jainism to the framework of
philosophical disputation in India; duel songs as an
institutionalized argumentative genre practiced by Ammassalik
culture within the Inuit community; the application of the Muslim
theological-legal reasoning system to evaluate two traditional,
pre-Muslim traditional practices in Borneo; the annotation of
schemes on the basis of Walton's taxonomy of argument schemes and
Wagemans' Periodic Table of Arguments; methodology proposed for the
reconstruction and analysis of "double-mode" arguments in
advertisements, combining the instruments developed in social
semiotics, pragmatics, and argumentation theory; and a review of
the argumentation-theoretical literature on metaphor in
argumentative discourse. This book is of interest to students and
researchers in argumentation studies, rhetoric, philosophy,
cultural studies and language studies. Previously published in
Argumentation Volume 35, issue 1, March 2021 Chapters "Annotating
Argument Schemes" and "The Study of Metaphor in Argumentation
Theory" are available open access under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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