A Systematic Theory of Argumentation: The Pragma-dialectical ApproachCambridge University Press, 2004 - 216 pages In this book two of the leading figures in argumentation theory present a view of argumentation as a means of resolving differences of opinion by testing the acceptability of the disputed positions. Their model of a 'critical discussion' serves as a theoretical tool for analyzing, evaluating and producing argumentative discourse. This is a major contribution to the study of argumentation and will be of particular value to professionals and graduate students in speech communication, informal logic, rhetoric, critical thinking, linguistics, and philosophy. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The realm of argumentation studies | 9 |
The philosophical estate | 11 |
The theoretical estate | 18 |
The analytical estate | 22 |
The empirical estate | 27 |
The practical estate | 31 |
A program for the study of argumentation | 37 |
Analysis as reconstruction | 95 |
Transformations in an analytical reconstruction | 100 |
The justification of a reconstruction | 110 |
Making an analytic overview | 118 |
Rules for a critical discussion | 123 |
Conceptions of reasonableness in the study of argumentation | 127 |
A dialectical notion of reasonableness | 131 |
The pragmadialectical discussion procedure | 135 |
A model of a critical discussion | 42 |
New rhetorics and new dialectics | 44 |
Metatheoretical principles of pragmadialectics | 52 |
Dialectical stages in the process of resolving a difference | 57 |
Pragmatic moves in the resolution process | 62 |
Relevance | 69 |
From interpretation to analysis | 73 |
Integration of Searlean and Gricean insights | 75 |
A pragmadialectical notion of relevance | 80 |
The identification of a relevance problem | 84 |
Conditional relevance | 87 |
Fallacies | 158 |
Fallacies and the concept of a critical discussion | 162 |
The pragmadialectical discussion procedure and the analysis of fallacies | 174 |
Examples of an analysis of some wellknown fallacies | 175 |
Fallacies and implicit language use | 180 |
The identification of fallacies | 184 |
A code of conduct for reasonable discussants | 187 |
Ten commandments for reasonable discussants | 190 |
References | 197 |
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acceptability analysis antagonist approach to argumentation argument schemes argumentation stage argumentation theory argumentative discourse argumentative reality argumentum argumentum ad baculum argumentum ad hominem argumentum ad ignorantiam Aristotle attack audience called into question complex speech act confrontation stage critical discussion defend a standpoint difference of opinion discourse and texts discourse or text discussion rules Eemeren and Grootendorst empirical evaluation explicit expressed fallacies force of justification formulated Grootendorst 1992 gumentation implicit inference procedure informal fallacies initial standpoint insights interactional intersubjective justification or refutation kinds language listener or reader logic means mentation Miriam normative obligation to defend opening stage performed perspective philosophical pragma-dialectical approach pragmatic principle problem propositional content protagonist put forward rabbi rational reasonableness regarded relevant resolution process resolving a difference retract Sophistical Refutations speaker or writer specific speech event standpoint into question study of argumentation theoretical tion Toulmin unexpressed premise usage declarative valid van Eemeren violations W.D. Ross