Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Cornelia Ilie, Giuliana Garzone

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Series: Argumentation in Context (AIC), 10.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Argumentation across Communities of Practice
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Cross-disciplinary perspectives on context-specific argumentation practices
Structure of the volume
References
Chapter 1. Uncontroversial arguments
From pragmatics to interaction
Dialogue and dialectic
Finocchiaro’s scale
Virtual and real objections
Uncontroversial argument
Conclusion
References
Chapter 2. Connection premises: Their character, criticism, and defence
1. Introduction
2. The character of connection propositions
3. Justifying argumentation schemes
4. Conclusion
References
Chapter 3. Argumentative and non-argumentative rhetorical content: Two examples in same-sex marriage discourse
1. Introduction
2. Rhetorical content as perlocutionary content
3. The speech-act of arguing
4. Argumentative and non-argumetative rhetorical content
5. Examples
6. Conclusions
References
Chapter 4. Questioning the questionable: Arguments and counter-arguments in political accountability interviews
Introduction
Types of media interviews
Political interviews as accountability interviews
Interview question design and underlying argumentation
Question-response argumentation
Analytical approach to argumentation in a political accountability interview
The argumentative interplay of questions and answers in Stephen Sackur’s interview with Dmitri Peskov
Argumentation through key words: Annexation of Crimea vs. Crimea joining the Russian Federation
Concluding remarks
References
Chapter 5. Reason and passion in political rhetoric: The case of Louise Michel’s (1830–1905) revolutionary discourse
0. Introduction
1. Freedom
2. Louise Michel: Biography
3. Louise Michel: Arguments
4. Evaluation of Michel’s Arguments
5. Conclusion
References
Chapter 6. Interpersonal style(s) in diplomatic argumentation online: A study of argument schemes and evaluation in press releases of UNSC permanent members
1. Introduction
2. The corpus of press releases
3. Analytical tools
4. Frequency data for schemes and authorial attitude
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
References
Ministries of Foreign Affairs Websites
Chapter 7. The interpreter-mediated police interview as argumentative discourse in context: A case-study
1. Introduction
2. The case study
3. Conclusions
References
Transcription conventions
Chapter 8. Context and genre in judicial argumentation: A case-study
1. Introduction
2. Argumentation and the judicial context
3. A case study
4. Conclusion
References
Chapter 9. Caught between profitability and responsibility: Arguing legitimacy in the pharmaceutical industry
1. Introduction
2. Background: The emergence of CSR discourse and the pharmaceutical industry
3. The drug access debate: Reconstructing the critical discussion
4. Negotiating legitimacy in the discourse of pharmaceutical corporations
5. Conclusions
References
Chapter 10. Multi-participant TV debate as an argumentative activity type
1. Introduction
2. Argumentative activity types in pragma-dialectics and MPTD as an argumentative activity type
3. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 11. The transmission of what is taken for granted in children’s socialization: The role of argumentation in family interactions
1. Introduction
2. Taken for granted information in ordinary verbal interactions
3. Argumentation and implicit in family mealtime conversations
4. Methodology
5. Analytical approach
6. Results
7. Discussion and conclusion
References
Appendix 1. Length of recordings, family members, average age of participants
Appendix 2. Transcription conventions
Chapter 12. Visual arguments in activists’ campaigns: A pragmadialectical perspective
1. Introduction
2. Review of the literature
3. Material and method
4. Analysis
5. Discussion and conclusion
References
Chapter 13. Attacks on the cartoonist’s strategic manoeuvring: An argumentative analysis of criticism on political cartoons
1. Introduction
2. The structure of the argumentation underlying the political cartoon
3. Criticism aimed at the visual metaphor
4. Criticism aimed at the standpoint
5. Criticism aimed at the sub-standpoint
6. Conclusion
References
Name index
Subject index