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This book presents reflections on the relationship between
narratives and argumentative discourse. It focuses on their
functional and structural similarities or dissimilarities, and
offers diverse perspectives and conceptual tools for analyzing the
narratives' potential power for justification, explanation and
persuasion. Divided into two sections, the first Part, under the
title "Narratives as Sources of Knowledge and Argument", includes
five chapters addressing rather general, theoretical and
characteristically philosophical issues related to the
argumentative analysis and understanding of narratives. We may
perceive here how scholars in Argumentation Theory have recently
approached certain topics that have a close connection with
mainstream discussions in epistemology and the cognitive sciences
about the justificatory potential of narratives. The second Part,
entitled "Argumentative Narratives in Context", brings us six more
chapters that concentrate on either particular functions played by
argumentatively-oriented narratives or particular practices that
may benefit from the use of special kinds of narratives. Here the
focus is either on the detailed analysis of contextualized examples
of narratives with argumentative qualities or on the careful
understanding of the particular demands of certain well-defined
situated activities, as diverse as scientific theorizing or war
policing, that may be satisfied by certain uses of narrative
discourse.
This book presents reflections on the relationship between
narratives and argumentative discourse. It focuses on their
functional and structural similarities or dissimilarities, and
offers diverse perspectives and conceptual tools for analyzing the
narratives' potential power for justification, explanation and
persuasion. Divided into two sections, the first Part, under the
title "Narratives as Sources of Knowledge and Argument", includes
five chapters addressing rather general, theoretical and
characteristically philosophical issues related to the
argumentative analysis and understanding of narratives. We may
perceive here how scholars in Argumentation Theory have recently
approached certain topics that have a close connection with
mainstream discussions in epistemology and the cognitive sciences
about the justificatory potential of narratives. The second Part,
entitled "Argumentative Narratives in Context", brings us six more
chapters that concentrate on either particular functions played by
argumentatively-oriented narratives or particular practices that
may benefit from the use of special kinds of narratives. Here the
focus is either on the detailed analysis of contextualized examples
of narratives with argumentative qualities or on the careful
understanding of the particular demands of certain well-defined
situated activities, as diverse as scientific theorizing or war
policing, that may be satisfied by certain uses of narrative
discourse.
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