Topical Themes in Argumentation Theory: Twenty Exploratory Studies

✍ Scribed by Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen (auth.), Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 339
• Series: Argumentation Library 22
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Topical Themes in Argumentation Theorybrings together twenty exploratory studies on important subjects of research in contemporary argumentation theory. The essays are based on papers that were presented at the 7^th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) in Amsterdam in June 2010. They give an impression of the nature and the variety of the kind of research that has recently been carried out in the study of argumentation.

The volume starts with three essays that provide stimulating theoretical perspectives on argumentation. Subsequently, some views are explained on the intriguing topics of ‘dissensus’ and ‘deep disagreement’. After a discussion of three different approaches to the treatment of types of argumentation some classical themes from antique argumentation theory are revisited. The new research area of visual argumentation is explored in the next part. The volume concludes with three reports of experimental studies concerning argumentative discourse.

The volume starts with three essays that provide stimulating theoretical perspectives on argumentation. Subsequently, some views are explained on the intriguing topics of ‘dissensus’ and ‘deep disagreement’. After a discussion of three different approaches to the treatment of types of argumentation some classical themes from antique argumentation theory are revisited. The new research area of visual argumentation is explored in the next part. The volume concludes with three reports of experimental studies concerning argumentative discourse.

The volume starts with three essays that provide stimulating theoretical perspectives on argumentation. Subsequently, some views are explained on the intriguing topics of ‘dissensus’ and ‘deep disagreement’. After a discussion of three different approaches to the treatment of types of argumentation some classical themes from antique argumentation theory are revisited. The new research area of visual argumentation is explored in the next part. The volume concludes with three reports of experimental studies concerning argumentative discourse.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Some Highlights in Recent Theorizing: An Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Rhetorical Argument....Pages 17-30
Meta-argumentation: Prolegomena to a Dutch Project....Pages 31-48
Wittgenstein’s Influence on Hamblin’s Concept of ‘Dialectical’....Pages 49-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Can Argumentation Always Deal with Dissensus?....Pages 61-75
The Appeal for Transcendence: A Possible Response to Cases of Deep Disagreement....Pages 77-89
Cultural Diversity, Cognitive Breaks, and Deep Disagreement: Polemic Argument....Pages 91-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
When Figurative Analogies Fail: Fallacious Uses of Arguments from Analogy....Pages 111-125
Current Issues in Conductive Argument Weight....Pages 127-142
Instruments to Evaluate Pragmatic Argumentation: A Pragma-Dialectical Perspective....Pages 143-159
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
The Nature and Purpose of Aristotelian Dialectic Revisited: Argumentation Theory, Scientific Controversies and Epistemology....Pages 163-179
The Ethos of Classical Rhetoric: From Epieikeia to Auctoritas ....Pages 181-191
The Emotions’ Impact on Audience Judgments and Decision-Making in Aristotle’s Rhetoric ....Pages 193-207
Argumentative Topoi for Refutation and Confirmation....Pages 209-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
On Images as Evidence and Arguments....Pages 223-238
Pictorial Argumentation in Advertising: Visual Tropes and Figures as a Way of Creating Visual Argumentation....Pages 239-255
The Narrator and the Interpreter in Visual and Verbal Argumentation....Pages 257-271
Visual Argumentation: A Further Reappraisal....Pages 273-288
Front Matter....Pages 289-289
The Argumentative Structure of Some Persuasive Appeal Variations....Pages 291-306
The Costs and Benefits of Arguing: Predicting the Decision Whether to Engage or Not....Pages 307-322
Front Matter....Pages 289-289
The Extended Pragma-Dialectical Argumentation Theory Empirically Interpreted....Pages 323-343
Back Matter....Pages 345-346

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Language; Literacy; Classical Studies; Logic; Linguistics (general)