Argumentation Theory: A Pragma-Dialectical Perspective

• Main Author: van Eemeren, Frans H. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Argumentation Library, 33
• Subjects: Business ethics.; Political philosophy.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Ethics.; Business Ethics.; Political Philosophy.; Social Philosophy.; Moral Philosophy.

The book offers a compact but comprehensive introductory overview of the crucial components of argumentation theory. In presenting this overview, argumentation is consistently approached from a pragma-dialectical perspective by viewing it pragmatically as a goal-directed communicative activity and d...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Argumentation theory as a discipline
• Chapter 2. Building a theory of argumentation
• Chapter 3. A model of a critical discussion
• Chapter 4. Critical discussion and the identification of fallacies
• Chapter 5. Descriptive studies of argumentative discourse
• Chapter 6. Analysis as resolution-oriented reconstruction
• Chapter 7. Strategic manoeuvring in argumentative discourse
• Chapter 8. Distinguishing between different kinds of argumentative practices
• Chapter 9. Prototypical argumentative patterns
• Chapter 10. Pragma-dialectics amidst other approaches to argumentation.