A Systematic Theory of Argumentation: The Pragma-dialectical ApproachIn this book two of the leading figures in argumentation theory present a view of argumentation as a means of resolving differences of opinion by testing the acceptability of the disputed positions. Their model of a 'critical discussion' serves as a theoretical tool for analyzing, evaluating and producing argumentative discourse. This is a major contribution to the study of argumentation and will be of particular value to professionals and graduate students in speech communication, informal logic, rhetoric, critical thinking, linguistics, and philosophy. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The realm of argumentation studies | 9 |
The philosophical estate | 11 |
The theoretical estate | 18 |
The analytical estate | 22 |
The empirical estate | 27 |
The practical estate | 31 |
A program for the study of argumentation | 37 |
Analysis as reconstruction | 95 |
Transformations in an analytical reconstruction | 100 |
The justification of a reconstruction | 110 |
Making an analytic overview | 118 |
Rules for a critical discussion | 123 |
Conceptions of reasonableness in the study of argumentation | 127 |
A dialectical notion of reasonableness | 131 |
The pragmadialectical discussion procedure | 135 |
A model of a critical discussion | 42 |
New rhetorics and new dialectics | 44 |
Metatheoretical principles of pragmadialectics | 52 |
Dialectical stages in the process of resolving a difference | 57 |
Pragmatic moves in the resolution process | 62 |
Relevance | 69 |
From interpretation to analysis | 73 |
Integration of Searlean and Gricean insights | 75 |
A pragmadialectical notion of relevance | 80 |
The identification of a relevance problem | 84 |
Conditional relevance | 87 |
Fallacies | 158 |
Fallacies and the concept of a critical discussion | 162 |
The pragmadialectical discussion procedure and the analysis of fallacies | 174 |
Examples of an analysis of some wellknown fallacies | 175 |
Fallacies and implicit language use | 180 |
The identification of fallacies | 184 |
A code of conduct for reasonable discussants | 187 |
Ten commandments for reasonable discussants | 190 |
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| Title | A Systematic Theory of Argumentation: The Pragma-dialectical Approach |
| Authors | Rob Grootendorst, Frans H. van Eemeren |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 052153772X, 9780521537728 |
| Length | 216 pages |
| Subjects | › › Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric Philosophy / General Philosophy / Logic |
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