Full Description
Featuring multidisciplinary and transcultural investigations, this volume showcases state-of-the-art scholarship about the impact of argumentation-based discourses and field-specific argumentation practices in a wide range of communities of practice belonging to the media, social, legal and political spheres. The investigations make use of integrative, wide-ranging theoretical perspectives and empirical research methodologies with a focus on argumentation strategies in real-life environments, both private and public, and in constantly growing virtual environments.
This book brings together linguists, argumentation scholars, philosophers and communication specialists who convincingly show how interpersonal and/or intergroup interactions shape, challenge or change the argumentative practices of users, what argumentation skills and strategies become critical and consequential, how argumentative discourse contexts may stimulate or prevent critical reflection and debate, and what are the wider implications at personal, institutional and societal levels. Reaching beyond the boundaries of linguistics and argumentation sciences, this book should be a valuable resource for researchers as well as practitioners in the fields of pragmatic linguistics, argumentation studies, rhetoric, discourse analysis, political sciences and media studies.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Ilie, Cornelia); 2. Part I. Theoretical perspectives on argumentation - revisited; 3. Chapter 1. Uncontroversial arguments (by Dufour, Michel); 4. Chapter 2. Connection premises: Their character, criticism, and defence (by Laar, Jan Albert van); 5. Chapter 3. Argumentative and non-argumentative rhetorical content: Two examples in same-sex marriage discourse (by Bermejo-Luque, Lilian); 6. Part II. Argumentation practices in political discourse environments; 7. Chapter 4. Questioning the questionable: Arguments and counter-arguments in political accountability interviews (by Ilie, Cornelia); 8. Chapter 5. Reason and passion in political rhetoric: The case of Louise Michel's (1830-1905) revolutionary discourse (by Kienpointner, Manfred); 9. Chapter 6. Interpersonal style(s) in diplomatic argumentation online: A study of argument schemes and evaluation in press releases of UNSC permanent members (by Swain, Elizabeth); 10. Part III. Argumentation practices in legal discourse environments; 11. Chapter 7. The interpreter-mediated police interview as argumentative discourse in context: A case-study (by Garzone, Giuliana); 12. Chapter 8. Context and genre in judicial argumentation: A case-study (by Santulli, Francesca); 13. Part IV. Argumentation practices in debates on societal and family issues; 14. Chapter 9. Caught between profitability and responsibility: Arguing legitimacy in the pharmaceutical industry (by Catenaccio, Paola); 15. Chapter 10. Multi-participant TV debate as an argumentative activity type (by Demir, Yeliz); 16. Chapter 11. The transmission of what is taken for granted in children's socialization: The role of argumentation in family interactions (by Bova, Antonio); 17. Part V. Argumentation practices in multi-modal discourse environments; 18. Chapter 12. Visual arguments in activists' campaigns: A pragmadialectical perspective (by Degano, Chiara); 19. Chapter 13. Attacks on the cartoonist's strategic manoeuvring: An argumentative analysis of criticism on political cartoons (by Plug, H. Jose)
