Full Description
This book is an essential and accessible reference guide to the key concepts associated with argumentation theory, criticism, and pedagogy.
Providing an encyclopedic-style synthesis, the book defines and describes 175 essential concepts of argumentation, and provides discussion of the meaning, application and impact, as well as offering suggestions for further reading. Readers are introduced to foundational reasoning methods—deductive, inductive, and abductive—as well as key argumentative models such as the Toulmin Model and Pragma-Dialectics. The text delves into the identification and analysis of fallacies, the evaluation of evidence, and the crucial roles of context, audience adaptation, and argumentative style. It explores the ethical dimensions of argument, the impact of cognitive bias, and the influence of cultural and discourse communities.
The first of its kind and a key entry point to understanding the fundamental principles of the field, this guidebook is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in Argumentation, Debate, Rhetoric and Communication Studies as well as other related disciplines. It will also be of interest to the general reader looking to improve their analytical and decision-making abilities.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Preface
Abduction (Abductive Reasoning)
Affirming a Disjunct (argument by dilemma)
Analogical reasoning
Antecedent
Argument
Argumentative pattern
Argumentative style
Argumentum ad baculum (appeal to force)
Argumentum ad hominem (fallacy)
Argumentum ad hominem (in philosophy)
Argumentum ad misericordium (appeal to pity)
Argumentum ad populum (bandwagon fallacy)
Argumentum ad rem (argument to the matter)
Argument diagramming
Argument evaluation
Argument from analogy
Argument from authority
Argument from ignorance
Argument metaphors
Argument reconstruction
Argument strength
Argumentation and advocacy
Argumentation ethics
Argumentative grammar
Argumentativity
Artificial Intelligence and argument
Audience adaptation
Axiom
Backing
Biconditionals
Bivalent logic
Burden of proof
Burden of rejoinder
Causal argument
Circular reasoning
Claim
Cogency
Cognitive biases
Cognitive research on argumentation
Commitment
Common knowledge (Sensus Communis)
Communicative Action Theory
Computational Models of Argument
Conclusion
Conjunction
Consensus
Consequent
Constructive argumentation
Constructive dilemma
Context
Contradiction
Controversy
Cooperative argument
Counterfactual
Counterplan
Critical Discourse Analysis
Critical thinking
Cultural norms of argumentation
Debate
Deductive reasoning
Defeasible reasoning
Definitions and definitional argument
Deliberative rhetoric
Destructive dilemma
Dialectic
Dialogical argumentation
Discourse community
Discovery and invention
Disjunctive reasoning
Doublespeak
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Embodiment
Emotive arguments
Enactment
Enthymeme
Eristic
Ethos
Evidence
Evidence-based reasoning
Explanatory arguments
Factual claims
Fallacies
Fallacy of relative privation
False cause (post hoc fallacy)
Feminine style
Feminist argument theory
Fields of argument
Formal logic
Framing analysis
Identity argument
Incommensurability
Inductive reasoning
Inference
Informal logic
Information seeking
Inquiry
Interpersonal argument
Justification
Lemma
Linguistic approaches to argument studies
Logical operators
Logical Positivism
Logos
Meta-argumentation
Metacognition
Misinformation
Modal logic
Modus ponens and modus tollens
Multimodal argument
Narrative argument
Natural argument
Negotiation
Non sequitor
Normative reasoning
Obligation Game
Parody and satire
Pathos
Personal sphere of argument
Persuasion
Policy claims
Pragma-Dialectics
Pragmatics
Predicate logic
Premise
Presumption
Proof
Proposition
Public sphere of argument
Qualifier
Quantifier
Quantitative reasoning
Racist argument
Radical argumentativism
Rationality
Reason
Rebuttal
Reconstructive analysis
Red herring
Reductio ad absurdum
Relevance
Rhetoric
Rhetorical analysis
Scientific rhetoric
Selfhood and argument
Semantics
Sign reasoning
Significance
Slippery slope
Socratic method
Solvency
Soundness
Standpoint analysis
Stasis
Stock Issues
Strategic design
Strategic maneuvering
Straw person argument
Style
Syllogistic reasoning
Tautology
Technical sphere of argument
Theorem
Topoi
Toulmin Model
Transposition
Tu quoque fallacy
Unexpressed premise
Universal audience
Universal generalization
Validity, formal
Validity, informal
Value Based Argumentation Frameworks
Value claims
Visual argumentation
Warrant
Bibliography
Index
