Overview
- Offers an introduction into argumentation theory viewed from a novel perspective
- Coverage creates an interdisciplinary pragma-dialectical perspective
- Provides readers with a better and more complete understanding of argumentative discourse
Part of the book series: Argumentation Library (ARGA, volume 33)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Pragma-Dialectical Approach to Argumentation Theory
- Model of a Critical Discussion
- Critical Discussion and the Identification of Fallacies
- Argumentative Discourse
- Analysis as Resolution-Oriented Reconstruction
- Strategic Manoeuvring in Argumentative Discourse
- Different Kinds of Argumentative Practices
- Prototypical Argumentative Patterns
- Goal-Oriented Argumentation
- Descriptive and Normative Approach to Argumentation Theory
- Argumentation Theory as a Discipline
About this book
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 dialectically as part of a regulated critical exchange aimed at resolving a difference of opinion. As a result, the book also systematically explains how the constitutive parts of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, which are discussed in a number of separate publications, hang together.
The following crucial topics are discussed: (1) argumentation theory as a discipline; (2) the meta-theoretical principles of pragma-dialectics; (3) the model of a critical discussion aimed at resolving a difference of opinion; (4) fallacies as violations of a code of conduct for reasonable argumentative discourse; (5) descriptive research of argumentative reality; (6) analysis as theoretically-motivated reconstruction; (7) strategic manoeuvring aimed at combining achieving effectiveness with maintaining reasonableness; (8) the conventionalization of argumentative practices; (9) prototypical argumentative patterns; (10) pragma-dialectics amidst other approaches.
Argumentation Theory: A Pragma-Dialectical Perspective is clearly written and makes argumentation theory understandable to all scholars and advanced students interested in argumentation research.
Reviews
“One can imagine that under the guidance of this monograph readers can more easily find out what other monographs or collections of articles should be consulted if they are interested in any specific research field of Argumentation Theory or, more in particular, Pragma-Dialectics. In this sense, this monograph serves as a matter of fact as a map for readers who would like to achieve a more profound understanding of both Argumentation Theory and Pragma-Dialectics.” (Peng Wu, Argumentation, Vol. 32, 2018)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
FRANS H. VAN EEMEREN is President of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) and the International Learned Institute of Argumentation Studies (ILIAS), Emeritus Professor of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric at the University of Amsterdam, Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association (U.S.) and Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Lugano (Switzerland). He is a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam and Guest Professor at Leiden University, Jiangsu University, Sun-yat Sen University and Zhejiang University. Van Eemeren is a Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion. He is the founder of the Pragma-Dialectical theory of argumentation and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Argumentation, the Journal of Argumentation in Context and the accompanying book series Library of Argumentation and Argumentation in Context. The monographs he (co)authored include Speech Acts in Argumentative Discussions (1984), Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies (1992), Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse (1993), A Systematic Theory of Argumentation (2004), Argumentative Indicators in Discourse (2007), Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness (2009), Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse (2010), Handbook of Argumentation Theory (2014), Reasonableness and Effectiveness in Argumentative Discourse (2015) and Prototypical Argumentative Patterns in Discourse (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Argumentation Theory: A Pragma-Dialectical Perspective
Authors: Frans H. van Eemeren
Series Title: Argumentation Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95381-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95380-9Published: 13 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07024-3Published: 03 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95381-6Published: 27 July 2018
Series ISSN: 1566-7650
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1907
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 199
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business Ethics, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Moral Philosophy