Argumentation
This book concentrates on argumentation as it emerges in ordinary discourse, whether the discourse is institutionalized or strictly informal. Crucial concepts from the theory of argumentation are systematically discussed and explained with the hel...
Argumentation
Argumentation
Argumentation
This book is an 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
Argumentation Schemes
This book provides a systematic analysis of many common argumentation schemes and a compendium of 96 schemes. The study of these schemes, or forms of argument that capture stereotypical patterns of human reasoning, is at the core of argumentation ...
Media Argumentation
Media argumentation is a powerful force in our lives. From political speeches to television commercials to war propaganda, it can effectively mobilize political action, influence the public, and market products. This book presents a new and system...
Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis
This book describes argumentative tools and strategies that can be used to guide policy decisions under conditions of great uncertainty. Contributing authors explore methods from philosophical analysis and in particular argumentation analysis, sho...
Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies
This volume gives a theoretical account of the problem of analyzing and evaluating argumentative discourse. After placing argumentation in a communicative perspective, and then discussing the fallacies that occur when certain rules of communicatio...
Praktisk argumentation : grundbok i retorisk argumentation
Grundbok i retorisk argumentation - för alla som argumenterar eller behöver genomskåda andras argumentation. I tv och radio försöker politiker och opinionsbildare påverka dina beslut på valdagen eller i affären. Vid kvällsmaten diskuterar familjen...
Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse
Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse analyzes argumentation in ordinary disputes. The analysis begins with an ideal model: a theoretical structure of discourse that might be used to resolve a dispute about the merits of two opposing cases. The i...
The Philosophy of Argument and Audience Reception
Recent work in argumentation theory has emphasized the nature of arguers and arguments along with various theoretical perspectives. Less attention has been given to the third feature of any argumentative situation - the audience. This book fills t...
Argumentation of Historians
The ninth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. T...
Argumentation of Historians
The ninth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor.Th...
Methods of Argumentation
Methods of Argumentation
Methods of Argumentation
Methods of Argumentation
Argumentative Indian
From Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India. India is an immensely diverse country with many...
Breast Augmentation
All aspects of breast augmentation are covered in this comprehensive guide. It is divided into sections that include anatomy, preoperative consultation, the varieties of implants with pocket positioning, the varieties of surgical procedures and ap...
Augmentation Fillers
Filler techniques are the most widely used surgical procedures in cosmetic surgery, as they are the best method of reducing wrinkles on a long-term basis. For years, dermatologists have known that water-binding soft-tissue fillers can replace the ...
Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory
Argumentation theory is a distinctly multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It draws its data, assumptions, and methods from disciplines as disparate as formal logic and discourse analysis, linguistics and forensic science, philosophy and psychology,...
Perspectives on Scientific Argumentation
Argumentation-arriving at conclusions on a topic through a process of logical reasoning that includes debate and persuasion- has in recent years emerged as a central topic of discussion among science educators and researchers. There is now a firm ...
English Syntax and Argumentation
This textbook on English syntax aims to give students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure, and at the same time strives to acquaint them with the essentials of syntactic argument. The text is written in a user-friendly style w...
Legal Argumentation and Evidence
A leading expert in informal logic, Douglas Walton turns his attention in this new book to how reasoning operates in trials and other legal contexts, with special emphasis on the law of evidence. The new model he develops, drawing on methods of ar...
Emotive Language in Argumentation
This book analyzes the uses of emotive language and redefinitions from pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic and rhetorical perspectives, investigating the relationship between emotions, persuasion and meaning, and focusing on the implicit dimension o...
Logic of Legal Argumentation
Multi-modal argumentation with its logical, emotional, visceral and kisceral arguments is an important addition to logical argumentation, especially when real-life situations are considered. It does not discard logic but adds other modes of argume...
Paul's Argumentation in Galatians
Galatians is a polemical letter which contains a substantial amount of argumentative passages. Paul evidently wanted to persuade by using the best arguments possible to convince his addressees. Using a state-of-the-art method from the discipline o...
Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory
Argumentation theory is a distinctly multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It draws its data, assumptions, and methods from disciplines as disparate as formal logic and discourse analysis, linguistics and forensic science, philosophy and psychology,...
Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation
Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation presents the basic tools for the identification, analysis, and evaluation of common arguments for beginners. The book teaches by using examples of arguments in dialogues, both in the text itself and in the ex...
The Practice of Argumentation
This book uses different perspectives on argumentation to show how we create arguments, test them, attack and defend them, and deploy them effectively to justify beliefs and influence others. David Zarefsky uses a range of contemporary examples to...
Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence
Argumentation is all around us. Letters to the Editor often make points of cons- tency, and "Why" is one of the most frequent questions in language, asking for r- sons behind behaviour. And argumentation is more than 'reasoning' in the r...
Argumentation in Higher Education
Argumentation in Higher Education offers professors, lecturers and researchers informative guidance for teaching effective argumentation skills to their undergraduate and graduate students. This professional guide aims to make the complex topic of...
Argumentation in Science Education
Our conversations about arguments began in Nashville in the Spring of 1996 in Richard Duschl's doctoral seminar that we were both attending, Marilar Jiménez-Aleixandre as a visiting scholar at Vanderbilt University. Jiménez-Aleixandre and Duschl w...
English Syntax and Argumentation
This textbook on English syntax aims to give students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure, and at the same time strives to acquaint them with the essentials of syntactic argument. The text is written in a user-friendly style w...
Handbook of Argumentation Theory
The Handbook Argumentation Theory provides an up to date survey of the various theoretical contributions to the development of argumentation theory for all scholars interested in argumentation, informal logic and rhetoric. It describes the histori...
English Syntax and Argumentation
This book provides a complete and detailed overview of modern English syntax, and offers a thorough grounding in the essentials of sentence structure and syntactic argumentation. Clear, accessible and comprehensive, it contains a wealth of materia...
Praktisk argumentation
Vi argumenterer i vidt forskellige situationer: Familien diskuterer hvis tur det er til at tømme opvaskemaskinen Telefonsælgeren vil have dig til at tegne et mobil-abonnement I partilederdebatten op til folketingsvalget kæmper politikerne om din stemme I medierne går bølgerne højt for og imod omskæring PRAKTISK ARGUMENATION giver en indføring i retorisk argumentationslære og fremlægger redskaber til analyse, kritik og produktion af argumenterende tekster, både skiftelige og mundtlige. PRAKTISK ARGUMENTATION henvender sig til alle der interesserer sig for den almindelige debat i samfundet eller i kraft af deres arbejde har brug for at argumentere hensigtsmæssigt og godt: politikere, jurister, erhvervsfolk, journalister, kommunikationsmedarbejdere m.v. Bogen rummer lovende og alsidige eksempler og øvelser. Den benyttes som lærebog i kommunikationsfag på mange uddannelser.
Argumentative Turn Revisited
Rejecting the notion that policy analysis and planning are value-free technical endeavors, an argumentative approach takes into account the ways that policy is affected by other factors, including culture, discourse, and emotion. The contributors ...
Lopez & Kadziela: Augmentation
Lopez & Kadziela: Augmentation [CD]
A Systematic Theory of Argumentation
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 Theory of Legal Argumentation
What is to be understood by 'rational legal argument'? To what extent can legal reasoning be rational? Is the demand for rationality in legal affairs justified? And what are the criteria of rationality in legal reasoning? The answer to these quest...
Pondering on Problems of Argumentation
Pondering on Problems of Argumentation is a collection of twenty essays brought together for anyone who is interested in theoretical issues in the study of argumentation. This collection of papers gives the reader an insightful and balanced view o...