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This book provides a new, linguistic approach to Argumentation
Theory. Its main goal is to integrate the logical, dialectical and
rhetorical dimensions of argumentation in a model providing a
unitary treatment of its justificatory and persuasive powers. This
model takes as its basis Speech Acts Theory in order to
characterize argumentation as a second-order speech act complex.
The result is a systematic and comprehensive theory of the
interpretation, analysis and evaluation of arguments. This theory
sheds light on the many faces of argumentative communication:
verbal and non-verbal, monological and dialogical, literal and
non-literal, ordinary and specialized.
The book takes into consideration the major current comprehensive
accounts of good argumentation (Perelman's New Rhetoric,
Pragma-dialectics, the ARG model, the Epistemic Approach) and shows
that these accounts have fundamental weaknesses rooted in their
instrumentalist conception of argumentation as an activity oriented
to a goal external to itself. Furthermore, the author addresses
some challenging meta-theoretical questions such as the
justification problem for Argumentation Theory models and the
relationship between reasoning and arguing.
This book provides a new, linguistic approach to Argumentation
Theory. Its main goal is to integrate the logical, dialectical and
rhetorical dimensions of argumentation in a model providing a
unitary treatment of its justificatory and persuasive powers. This
model takes as its basis Speech Acts Theory in order to
characterize argumentation as a second-order speech act complex.
The result is a systematic and comprehensive theory of the
interpretation, analysis and evaluation of arguments. This theory
sheds light on the many faces of argumentative communication:
verbal and non-verbal, monological and dialogical, literal and
non-literal, ordinary and specialized.
The book takes into consideration the major current comprehensive
accounts of good argumentation (Perelman's New Rhetoric,
Pragma-dialectics, the ARG model, the Epistemic Approach) and shows
that these accounts have fundamental weaknesses rooted in their
instrumentalist conception of argumentation as an activity oriented
to a goal external to itself. Furthermore, the author addresses
some challenging meta-theoretical questions such as the
justification problem for Argumentation Theory models and the
relationship between reasoning and arguing.
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