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Narration as Argument

✍ Scribed by Paula Olmos (eds.)


Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Leaves
237
Series
Argumentation Library 31
Edition
1
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


This book presents reflections on the relationship between narratives and argumentative discourse. It focuses on their functional and structural similarities or dissimilarities, and offers diverse perspectives and conceptual tools for analyzing the narratives’ potential power for justification, explanation and persuasion. Divided into two sections, the first Part, under the title “Narratives as Sources of Knowledge and Argument”, includes five chapters addressing rather general, theoretical and characteristically philosophical issues related to the argumentative analysis and understanding of narratives. We may perceive here how scholars in Argumentation Theory have recently approached certain topics that have a close connection with mainstream discussions in epistemology and the cognitive sciences about the justificatory potential of narratives. The second Part, entitled “Argumentative Narratives in Context”, brings us six more chapters that concentrate on either particular functions played by argumentatively-oriented narratives or particular practices that may benefit from the use of special kinds of narratives. Here the focus is either on the detailed analysis of contextualized examples of narratives with argumentative qualities or on the careful understanding of the particular demands of certain well-defined situated activities, as diverse as scientific theorizing or war policing, that may be satisfied by certain uses of narrative discourse.

✦ Table of Contents


Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Narratives, Narrating, Narrators....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Narratives and the Concept of Argument....Pages 11-30
Arguing with Stories....Pages 31-45
Narrative Fiction as a Source of Knowledge....Pages 47-61
Analogy, Supposition, and Transcendentality in Narrative Argument....Pages 63-81
Parables: Crossroads Between the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor and Argumentation Theory....Pages 83-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Narratives and Pragmatic Arguments: Ivens’ The 400 Million ....Pages 103-121
The Sample Convention, or, When Fictionalized Narratives Can Double as Historical Testimony....Pages 123-140
From Narrative Arguments to Arguments That Narrate....Pages 141-175
Narrative as Argument in Atul Gawande’s “On Washing Hands” and “Letting Go”....Pages 177-192
On Thought Experiments and Other Narratives in Scientific Argument....Pages 193-213
How to Win Wars: The Role of the War Narrative....Pages 215-234

✦ Subjects


Logic;Discourse Analysis;Literary Theory;Epistemology;Pragmatics;Philosophy of Language


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