Reasonableness and Effectiveness in Argumentative Discourse Fifty Contributions to the Development of Pragma-Dialectics /

• Main Author: van Eemeren, Frans H. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Argumentation Library, 27
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philology.; Logic.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Literacy.; Philosophy of Language.; Classical Studies.

This volume presents 50 contributions on the themes of reasonableness and effectiveness and their connections, which are central issues in argumentation theory. It discusses van Eemeren’s views on the study of argumentation; the approach to argumentation adopted in pragma-dialectics; pragma-dialecti...

Table of Contents:

•  Argumentation
• The language of argumentation in Dutch
• In what sense do modern argumentation theories relate to Aristotle? The case of pragma-dialectics
• Bingo! Promising developments in argumentation theory
• Argumentation studies’ five estates
• The study of argumentation as normative pragmatics
• From ideal model to situated argumentative discourse: The step-by-step development of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation
• The case of pragma-dialectics
• The pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation in discussion.