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Argumentation theory is the interdisciplinary study of how conclusions can be supported or undermined by premises through logical reasoning. With historical origins in logic, dialectic, and rhetoric, argumentation theory includes the arts and sciences of civil debate, dialogue, conversation, and persuasion.
16 lip 2021 · Argument is a central concept for philosophy. Philosophers rely heavily on arguments to justify claims, and these practices have been motivating reflections on what arguments and argumentation are for millennia.
1 sty 2014 · An introduction to argumentation theory as a research topic, covering its descriptive and normative dimensions, its main concepts and approaches, and its applications. The handbook provides an overview of the history, the methods, and the challenges of argumentation theory.
The Handbook covers classical and modern backgrounds to the study of argumentation, the New Rhetoric developed by Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca, the Toulmin model, formal approaches, informal logic, communication and rhetoric, pragmatic approaches, linguistic approaches and pragma-dialectics.
This book introduces a pragma-dialectical perspective to argumentative discourse and puts a great emphasis on the pragmatic dimension of argumentation as a goal-directed verbal activity and on its dialectical dimension as part of a critical exchange aimed at resolving a difference of opinion.
21 cze 2023 · Argumentation theory is the study of the use of arguments (i.e. reasons) to convince others by means of a reasonable discussion of the acceptability of the (evaluative, prescriptive or descriptive) standpoint Footnote 6 at issue in a difference.
27 cze 2024 · 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 theoretical tool for analysing, evaluating and producing argumentative discourse.
