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Two Conceptions Of Rhetoric And Their Role In Argumentation Theory, Lilian Bermejo-Luque
Two Conceptions Of Rhetoric And Their Role In Argumentation Theory, Lilian Bermejo-Luque
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I make a distinction between a traditional conception of Rhetoric as a corpus of practical knowledge to improve persuasive abilities, and a more contemporary conception of Rhetoric as a hermeneutic discipline for dealing with communicative activities as a means of influence. I argue that the key difference between both conceptions is whether or not they deal with the rhetorical properties of discourses as a matter of speakers’ intentions.
Commentary On Rose, Joseph A. Novak
Reply To My Commentator - Roque, Georges Roque
Reply To My Commentator - Roque, Georges Roque
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Reply To My Commentator - Gilardoni, Andrea Gilardoni
Reply To My Commentator - Gilardoni, Andrea Gilardoni
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Categorizing Visual Argumentation Processes: Visual Commonplaces In Civic Culture, Maceio Ilon Lauer
Categorizing Visual Argumentation Processes: Visual Commonplaces In Civic Culture, Maceio Ilon Lauer
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This essay argues that a theoretical framework for understanding visual argumentation should ideally account for the “etymology,” “syntax,” and “field” of visual arguments and offers an elaboration of these concepts. It defends the notion of a visual argument’s “etymology” or historical sense and advocates inquiry that accounts for how the reception of particular images has been conditioned by the production of prior visual arguments.
Commentary On Konishi, J Anthony Blair
Two Accounts Of Begging The Question, Juho Ritola
Two Accounts Of Begging The Question, Juho Ritola
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This essay discusses epistemic analysis of the fallacy of begging the question. In the literature, there are two prominent epistemic explanations of the fallacy, the objective and the subjective. The objective account bases the analysis of the fallacy on the epistemic relations of the propositions used in the argument. The subjective account bases the analysis on the way the arguers acquire their beliefs in the propositions used in the argument. Arguments that aim to show that a propositional analysis is not flexible enough for fallacy analysis have been taken to be a decisive argument for the subjective approach. Yet, the …
Commentary On Santibanez Yanez, Michael Hoppmann
Commentary On Santibanez Yanez, Michael Hoppmann
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Relevance, Argumentation And Presentational Devices, Cristian Santibanez Yanez
Relevance, Argumentation And Presentational Devices, Cristian Santibanez Yanez
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This paper presents the concept of relevance in argumentation theory analyzed from a pragma-rhetorical angle. Special attention will be given to examples in which relevance is determined by the extended social context of the use of presentational devices in controversies. The analysis of examples will include the rhetorical concept of decorum, maintaining that a different emphasis should be given to the role of the speaker in the determination of relevance.
Probative Inference, Michael Scriven
Knowledge By Telling: Reflections On The Ad Verecundiam, John Woods
Knowledge By Telling: Reflections On The Ad Verecundiam, John Woods
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Using The “Protocols”: Fallacies And Rhetorical Strategies, Andrea Gilardoni
Using The “Protocols”: Fallacies And Rhetorical Strategies, Andrea Gilardoni
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In our contribution we will analyze the way the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are used by anti-Semite or anti-Zionist propaganda. We will try to show how persuasive manipulation systematically violates the «pragma-dialectical rules for reasonable discussion» (van Eemeren and Grootendorst, 2004). In destroying the possibility of a fair discussion, such strategies are particularly effective in persuading not the other party of a dialectical discussion but the target-audience of this «forbidden rhetoric».
Commentary On Govier, Thomas Fischer
Consensus, Dissensus, And A Third Way, Learned Ignorance, Dale Hample
Consensus, Dissensus, And A Third Way, Learned Ignorance, Dale Hample
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The simplest statement of the relationship between consensus and dissensus is that arguments are supposed to begin in dissensus and end in consensus. This essay introduces a third state for argumentation, learned ignorance. Nicolas of Cusa’s De Docta Ignorantia (1440) lays out both a case and a logic for argumentation that is not designed to end in a clear conclusion. Instead, the arguer pursues a matter up to an inconclusive point, and ends there, satisfied with the results. The underlying logic of this view is centered on the “coincidence of opposites,” which requires rejection of the usual logical principle that …
Finnish Working-Class Argumentation—A Minimalist Exercise, Mika Hietanen
Finnish Working-Class Argumentation—A Minimalist Exercise, Mika Hietanen
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Finnish oral communication is often considered to be something of a minimalist exercise. A well-known expression of such communication is the so-called Proletariat Trilogy by the Finnish film-maker Aki Kaurismäki. This study presents an analysis of persuasive and argumentative dialogues in the manuscript to Shadows in Paradise. The approach is based on Searle’s speech acts, Grice’s conversational maxims, and Pragma-Dialectics. The result is a description of Finnish working-class everyday rhetoric as it is portrayed in the international breakthrough film of Kaurismäki.
Reply To My Commentator - Fields, John E. Fields
Reply To My Commentator - Fields, John E. Fields
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Reply To My Commentator - Cohen, Daniel H. Cohen
Reply To My Commentator - Cohen, Daniel H. Cohen
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The Rule Of Similarity As Intercultural Basis Of Defeasible Argumentation, Michael Hoppmann
The Rule Of Similarity As Intercultural Basis Of Defeasible Argumentation, Michael Hoppmann
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This paper is concerned with the deconstruction of defeasible argument schemes. It will be claimed that one of the central elements of all defeasible argument schemes is the rule of similarity which demands that one must ascribe similar propositions to essentially similar entities in order to be treated as reasonable. This rule is presented as interculturally valid and of such central importance that it could even been used as a defining quality of defeasible argumentation.
The Culture Of Spoken Arguments, David Hitchcock
The Culture Of Spoken Arguments, David Hitchcock
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37 arguments were selected by random sampling methods from calls to radio and television phone-in programs. I discuss whether my general theory of inference evaluation applies to them and how frequently they exemplify a recognized argument scheme. I also compare their dependence on context, their complexity and their quality to those features of a previously studied sample of 50 scholarly arguments.
Reply To My Commentator - Carlos, Claudia Carlos
Reply To My Commentator - Carlos, Claudia Carlos
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Argumentation In Discourse: A Socio-Discursive Approach To Arguments, Ruth Amossy
Argumentation In Discourse: A Socio-Discursive Approach To Arguments, Ruth Amossy
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Rather than the art of putting forward logically valid arguments leading to Truth, argumentation is here viewed as the use of verbal means ensuring an agreement on what can be considered reasonable by a given group, on a more or less controversial matter (Perelman 1958). What is acceptable and plausible is always co-constructed by subjects engaging in verbal interaction. It is the dynamism of this exchange, realized not only in natural language, but also in a specific cultural framework, that has to be accounted for. From this perspective, it is not enough to reconstruct patterns of reasoning. As logos is …
Argumentation And The Force Of Reasons, Robert C. Pinto
Argumentation And The Force Of Reasons, Robert C. Pinto
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Argumentation involves offering and/or exchanging reasons—either reasons for adopting various attitudes towards specific propositional contents or else reasons for acting in various ways. This paper develops the idea that the force of reasons is through and through a normative force because what good reasons accomplish is precisely to make one entitled to do what they are reasons for. The paper attempts to shed light on what it is to have a reason, how the entitlement arising from reasons differs from other species of entitlement and how the norms by which such entitlement is assessed obtain their status as norms.
What Does An Argument Culture Look Like?, David Zarefsky
What Does An Argument Culture Look Like?, David Zarefsky
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However the term “culture” is defined, a culture becomes an argument culture when it is characterized by consciousness of audience, comfort with uncertainty, expectation of personal convictions, commitment to justification rather than formal proof, realization that the enterprise is essentially cooperative, and willingness to assume risks. Such a culture productively negotiates tensions between contingency and commitment, partisanship and restraint, personal conviction and sensitivity to audience, reasonableness and subjectivity, decision and nonclosure.
Argumentation Schemes And Communities Of Argumentational Practice, Andrew Aberdein
Argumentation Schemes And Communities Of Argumentational Practice, Andrew Aberdein
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Is it possible to distinguish communities of arguers by tracking the argumentation schemes they employ? There are many ways of relating schemes to communities, but not all are productive. Attention must be paid not only to the admissibility of schemes within a community of argumentational practice, but also to their comparative frequency. Two examples are discussed: informal mathematics, a convenient source of well-documented argumentational practice, and anthropological evidence of non-standard reasoning.
A Self-Defeat Problem For The Rhetorical Theory Of Argument, Scott F. Aikin
A Self-Defeat Problem For The Rhetorical Theory Of Argument, Scott F. Aikin
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The rhetorical theory of argument, if held as the conclusion of an argument, is self-defeating. There are two arguments that it is. First is the quick and dirty argument: the rhetorical theory is that argument quality is adjudged by eliciting conviction, but the case for the theory is not convincing. Second is the process argument: if one has the view that one’s reasons are arranged with the sole purpose of eliciting assent, one does not view one’s resultant commitments as reflective of truth.
Commentary On Aikin, Rebecca Macintosh, Sheldon Wein
Commentary On Aikin, Rebecca Macintosh, Sheldon Wein
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Feminist Alternatives To Traditional Argumentation, Khameiel Al-Tamimi
Feminist Alternatives To Traditional Argumentation, Khameiel Al-Tamimi
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In this paper, I will look at the critiques that feminists have proposed to existing styles of argumentation. There are two prominent lines of feminist criticism of argumentation: the epistemic critique which argues that women were socialized to argue differently and the equity critique which asserts that argumentation is a patriarchal attempt to dominate one another, as such it is adversarial in nature. I will then discuss the alternatives feminists have proposed to traditional argumentation.
Commentary On Al-Tamimi, Phyllis Rooney
The Analysis Of Confrontational Strategic Manoeuvres In A Political Interview, Corina And One
The Analysis Of Confrontational Strategic Manoeuvres In A Political Interview, Corina And One
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The aim of this paper is to indicate how knowledge of the argumentative activity type of a political interview plays a role in a pragma-dialectical analysis of confrontational strategic manoeuvres. The author gives an account of the contextual pre-conditions created by the rules and conventions of a political interview for the performance by a politician of responses to an accusation of inconsistency advanced by an interviewer.
Commentary On Andone, Christopher W. Tindale
Commentary On Andone, Christopher W. Tindale
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