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The essays that are collected in Controversy and Confrontation provide a closer insight into the relationship between controversy and confrontation that deepens our understanding of the functioning of argumentative discourse in managing differences of opinion.

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Author:   Frans H. van Eemeren (University of Amsterdam) ,  Bart Garssen (University of Amsterdam)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   6
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9789027218865

ISBN 10:   9027218862
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   17 December 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1. Preface; 2. List of contributors; 3. Controversy and confrontation in argumentative discourse (by Eemeren, Frans H. van); 4. Dichotomies and types of debate (by Dascal, Marcelo); 5. Charles Darwin versus George Mivart: The role of polemics in science (by Regner, Anna Carolina); 6. Scientific demarcation and metascience: The national academy of sciences on greenhouse warming and evolution (by Lessl, Thomas); 7. Reforming the Jews, rejecting marginalization: The 1799 German debate on Jewish emancipation in its controversy context (by Saim, Mirela); 8. Communication principles for controversies: A historical perspective (by Fritz, Gerd); 9. On the role of pragmatics, rhetoric and dialectic in scientific controversies (by Ferreira, Ademar); 10. A ""dialectic ladder"" of refutation and dissuasion (by Marras, Cristina); 11. Responding to objections (by Johnson, Ralph H.); 12. Pragmatic inconsistency and credibility (by Laar, Jan Albert van); 13. Reasonableness in confrontation: Empirical evidence concerning the assessment of ad hominem fallacies (by Eemeren, Frans H. van); 14. Managing disagreement in multiparty deliberation (by Aakhus, Mark); 15. Predicaments of politicization in the debate over abstinence-only sex education (by Jackson, Sally); 16. Rhetoric of science, pragma-dialectics, and science studies (by Kutrovatz, Gabor); 17. Scientific controversies and the pragma-dialectical model: Analysing a case study from the 1670s, the published part of the Newton-Lucas correspondence (by Zemplen, Gabor); 18. Index"

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Controversy and Confrontation is an ambitious cross-disciplinary work. [...] All in all, the result is an engaging piece of reading that reveals the impact that Van Eemeren and Grassen have had on argumentation theory generally. The inspiring contributions provide a good perspective for further research on argumentation theory as well as cognitive linguistics. -- Anna Kuzio, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

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