Argumentative Discourse

From Strategic Maneuvering to Argumentative Style
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-11920-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Blending theory and practice, this book outlines the central role that strategic maneuvering and argumentative style play in argumentative discourse. Strategic maneuvering refers to the functional connection arguers create between aiming for effectiveness and maintaining reasonableness, which they pursue simultaneously in argumentative discourse. Argumentative style is the specific argumentative shape arguers give to their strategic maneuvering.

Enabling students to understand how they can successfully prepare oral and written argumentative discourse, this book provides a pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation. It demonstrates what is involved in approaching argumentative discourse from the perspective of strategic maneuvering and allows students to put their skills and knowledge into practice through end-of-chapter exercises. It also provides readers with a set of rules for choosing between reasonable and fallacious argumentative moves and a series of recommendations for selecting argumentative styles.

Written by leading experts, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Argumentation, Communication Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Law.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eemeren, Frans H. Van

Haaften, Ton van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Getting a grip on argumentative discourse  2. The combined pursuit of reasonableness and effectiveness  3. Communicative acts conveying argumentative moves  4. Argumentation to convince the intended audience  5. Reasonableness requirements in argumentative discourse  6. Engaging in oral or written argumentative discourse

Über Autor(innen)

Frans H. van Eemeren is Professor Emeritus of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is the co-author of Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies (Routledge, 1992), Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory (Routledge, 1996), and Argumentation (Routledge, 2016).

Ton van Haaften is Professor Emeritus of Dutch Discourse Studies at the University Centre for Linguistics in the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University, the Netherlands.