Beschreibung:
The book offers a compact but comprehensive introductory overview of the crucial components of argumentation theory. In presenting this overview, argumentation is consistently approached from a pragma-dialectical perspective by viewing it pragmatically as a goal-directed communicative activity and dialectically as part of a regulated critical exchange aimed at resolving a difference of opinion. As a result, the book also systematically explains how the constitutive parts of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, which are discussed in a number of separate publications, hang together.
Chapter 1. Argumentation theory as a discipline.- Chapter 2. Building a theory of argumentation.- Chapter 3. A model of a critical discussion.- Chapter 4. Critical discussion and the identification of fallacies.- Chapter 5. Descriptive studies of argumentative discourse.- Chapter 6. Analysis as resolution-oriented reconstruction.- Chapter 7. Strategic manoeuvring in argumentative discourse.- Chapter 8. Distinguishing between different kinds of argumentative practices.- Chapter 9. Prototypical argumentative patterns.- Chapter 10. Pragma-dialectics amidst other approaches to argumentation.