Full Description
Prototypical Argumentative Patterns reports about a research project started at the University of Amsterdam in 2012. In this project distinctive argumentative patterns have been identified in argumentative discourse in the political, the legal and the medical domain. These patterns consist of constellations of argumentative moves in which, in order to deal with a particular kind of difference of opinion, in defence of a particular type of standpoint, a particular argument scheme or combination of argument schemes is used in a particular kind of argumentation structure. The composition of these prototypical argumentative patterns can be explained by referring to the institutional characteristics of the communicative activity types in which they occur. By exploring the relationship between argumentative discourse and the institutional context, Frans van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Corina Andone, Eveline Feteris and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans have provided a new and illuminating perspective on the context-dependency of argumentative discourse.
Contents
1. Preface; 2. Acknowledgment; 3. Chapter 1. Introduction (by Eemeren, Frans H. van); 4. Chapter 2. Argumentative patterns viewed from a pragma-dialectical perspective (by Eemeren, Frans H. van); 5. Chapter 3. The role of pragmatic problem-solving argumentation in plenary debate in the European Parliament (by Garssen, Bart); 6. Chapter 4. The role of pragmatic and majority argumentation in reports of European parliamentary committees of inquiry (by Andone, Corina); 7. Chapter 5. The role of pragmatic argumentation in the justification of judicial decisisons (by Feteris, Eveline T.); 8. Chapter 6. The role of pragmatic argumentation in over-the-counter medicine advertisements (by Snoeck Henkemans, A. Francisca); 9. Chapter 7. Argumentative patterns with argumentation by example in legislative debate in the European Parliament (by Garssen, Bart); 10. Chapter 8. Argumentative patterns with symptomatic argumentation in the justification of judicial decisions (by Feteris, Eveline T.); 11. Chapter 9. Argumentative patterns with symptomatic argumentation in over-the-counter medicine advertisements (by Snoeck Henkemans, A. Francisca); 12. Chapter 10. The dependency of argumentative patterns on the institutional context (by Eemeren, Frans H. van); 13. Authors
