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OverviewReconstructing Argumentative Discourse analyzes argumentation in ordinary disputes. The analysis begins with an ideal model: a theoretical structure of discourse that might be used to resolve a dispute about the merits of two opposing cases. The ideal model does not describe actual argumentative practice. Argumentative discourse does not always seek genuine resolution and, when it does, the participants may not perform as ideal arguers. A central challenge for argumentation theory is to give an account of argumentation occurring under less-than-ideal conditions and conducted by less-than-ideal participants. The authors offer detailed analysis of argument in such contexts as ordinary conversation, third party dispute mediation, and religious confrontation. An adequate analytic approach to such forms of discourse, the authors argue, must offer critical insight into actual practice; must begin with a defensible normative standard against which practice can be compared; and must also offer an applicable analytic machinery for making the comparison, so its methods can be tailored to empirical circumstances. The authors position their study of argumentation within a general 'normative pragmatics' characterized by a dual commitment to usefulness and adequacy in description. A distinctive set of practical applications and a distinctive view of practicality follow from this approach, characterized not by the search for generalizable means-end relationships but by the development and testing of plans for making real argumentation look as much as possible like ideal argumentation. This book integrates for the first time the normative interest of dialectical theories of argumentation with the descriptive interests of the empirical study of everyday language use. This ambitious project is achieved by adopting a distinctively social and pragmatic view of argumentation - by seeing argumentation as a language activity structured for the function of resolving disagreements. The authors examine argumentation in a wide variety of contexts - including everyday conversation, campus evangelism, political speeches, newspaper letters to the editor, and the formal mediation of disputes. In doing so, they illustrate how to analyze the details of actual argumentation and tackle a variety of theoretical and methodological puzzles encountered in the effort to apply normative models to real life argumentation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Frans Van Eemeren , Rob Grootendorst , Scott Jacobs , Sally JacksonPublisher: The University of Alabama Press Imprint: The University of Alabama Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.338kg ISBN: 9780817312299ISBN 10: 0817312293 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 30 June 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviews"""The book,... a fruitful collaboration between leading scholars in the field, advances a comprehensive and timely program for studies of argumentation.... By reason of its scope and the power of its own argumentation, Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse ought to be recognized as occupying a commanding position among studies of argumentation."" - Argumentation" The book,... a fruitful collaboration between leading scholars in the field, advances a comprehensive and timely program for studies of argumentation.... By reason of its scope and the power of its own argumentation, Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse ought to be recognized as occupying a commanding position among studies of argumentation. - Argumentation Author InformationFrans H. van Eemeren is Professor of Discourse and Argumentation Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. Rob Grootendorst is Associate Professor of Discourse and Argumentation Studies and Chair of the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Amsterdam. Sally Jackson and Scott Jacobs are Associate Professors of Communication at the University of Arizona. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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