Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue: The Use of Common Sense Reasoning in Conversation: 41 (Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface, 41)

Ellen Breitholtz

ISBN 10: 9004436782 / ISBN 13: 9789004436787

Published by BRILL, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue: The Use of Common Sense Reasoning in Conversation: 41 (Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface, 41)
• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004436782
• ISBN 13: 9789004436787
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.5W x 1.6H x 23.5D centimeters 15.5 centimeters width by 1.6 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth
• Weight: 417 grams

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Synopsis

In Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. The account draws on the concepts of enthymemes and topoi, originating in Aristotelian rhetoric and dialectic, and integrates these in a formal dialogue semantic account using TTR, a type theory with records.
Argumentation analysis and formal approaches to reasoning often focus the logical validity of arguments on inferences made in discourse from a god’s-eye perspective. In contrast, Breitholtz’s account emphasises the individual perspectives of interlocutors and the function and acceptability of their reasoning in context. This provides an analysis of interactions where interlocutors have access to different topoi and therefore make different inferences.

About the Author

Ellen Breitholtz, Ph.D. (2015), is Associate Researcher at the University of Gothenburg where she works on formal accounts of language involving enthymematic reasoning and topoi. She also leads a project on reasoning in dialogues involving patients with schizophrenia.