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In this article, after arguing that present approaches to improving problem-solving discussions for various reasons are not satisfactory, I turn to the pragma-dialectic approach to argumentative discourse to derive a normative framework that can serve as a point of departure to enhance the quality of problem-solving discussions. I then show how this approach can be used as analytical and evaluative instrument that can help the analyst to establish whether participants in actual practice act in a fashion that is in accord with the norms posited. Two real-life problem-solving discussions provide the material for this demonstration.
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van Rees, M.A. Pragma-Dialectical Analysis and Evaluation of Problem-Solving Discussion. Argumentation 17, 465–479 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026364503176
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