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Studies in Pragma-Dialectics
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Rob Grootendorst

Sic Sat Series in Argumentation and Communication No. 4


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Preface

INTRODUCTION

1. The study of argumentation as normative pragmatics
Frans H. van Eemeren

PHILOSOPHICAL COMPONENT

2. Rationale for a pragma-dialectical perspective
Frans H. van Eemeren and Rob Grootendorst

3. Rationality in legal discussions
Eveline T. Feteris

4. A defense of deductivism in reconstructing unexpressed premises
Sasanne Gerritsen

THEORETICAL COMPONENT

5. Relevance reviewed: the case of "argumentum ad hominem"
Frans H. van Eemeren and Rob Grootendorst

6. Complex argumentation in a critical discussion
A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans

7. Definitions in argumentative texts
Erik Viskil

EMPIRICAL COMPONENT

8. Student performance in identifying unexpressed premises and argumentation schemes
Frans H. van Eemeren, Kees de Glopper, Rob Grootendorst and Ron Oostdam

9. Recognizing argumentation schemes
Bart Garssen

10. Identifying argumentation
Francisca S. Jungslager

11. The skill of identifying argumentation
Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst and Bert Meuffels

12. Argumentation in written discourse: secondary school students’ writing problems
Ron Oostdam, Kees de Glopper and Mindert H. Eiting

ANALYTICAL COMPONENT

13. Analysing argumentative discourse
Frans H. van Eemeren and Rob Grootendorst

14. The speech act ‘advancing a standpoint’
Peter Houtlosser

15. A strategy for the dialectical reconstruction of the confrontation stage
Willem M. Koetsenruijter

16. A new source of argumentative indicators?
Agnes Verbiest

17. Reconstructing indirect speech acts
Pauline Slot

18. Analysing and evaluating problem-solving discussions
M. Agnès van Rees

PRACTICAL COMPONENT

19. Writing argumentative texts: from analysis to presentation
Frans H. van Eemeren and Rob Grootendorst

20. The heuristic use of argumentation schemes in academic debate
Rinke Berkenbosch and Antoine Braet

21. Analysing analogy argumentation in judicial decisions
Harm Kloosterhuis

22. Reconstructing complex argumentation in judicial decisions
José Plug

References

Bibliography of pragma-dialectics (publications in English)

Acknowledgments

List of contributors

Index

 

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