Argumentative Style (Argumentation in Context) - Hardcover

Eemeren, Frans H.; Garssen, Bart; Greco, Sara; Haaften, Ton; Labrie, Nanon; Leal, Fernando; Wu, Peng

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027211353 ISBN 13: 9789027211354

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022

Synopsis

Argumentative Style discusses the various ways in which the defence of a standpoint is given shape in argumentative discourse. In this innovative study the new notion – ‘argumentative style’ – introduced for this purpose is situated in the theoretical framework of the pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation. This means that the choices involved in utilising a particular argumentative style do not only concern the presentational dimension, but also the topical selection and the audience adaptation of the strategic manoeuvring taking place in the discourse. In identifying the functional variety of the argumentative styles utilised in the political, the diplomatic, the legal, the facilitatory, the academic, and the medical domain, the point of departure is that these argumentative styles manifest themselves in the discourse in the argumentative moves that are made, the dialectical routes that are chosen and the strategic considerations that are brought to bear.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027211353
• ISBN 13: 9789027211354
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 342