A Pragmatic Account of Rephrase in Argumentation:  Linguistic and Cognitive Evidence

Marcin Koszowy; Steve Oswald; Katarzyna  Budzynska; Barbara Konat; Pascal Gygax

doi:10.22329/il.v42i1.7212

A Pragmatic Account of Rephrase in Argumentation

Linguistic and Cognitive Evidence

Authors

Marcin Koszowy Warsaw University of Technology https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5553-7428
Steve Oswald University of Fribourg https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5946-1691
Katarzyna Budzynska Warsaw University of Technology
Barbara Konat Adam Mickiewicz University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-4636
Pascal Gygax https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4151-8255

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v42i1.7212

Keywords:

pragmatics of rephrase, rephrase types, linguistic evidence, corpus study, cognitive evidence, crowd–source experiments

Abstract

In the spirit of the pragmatic account of quotation and reporting offered by Macagno and Walton (2017), we outline a systematic pragmatic account of rephrasing. For this purpose, we combine two interrelated methods of inquiry into the variety of uses of rephrase as a persuasive device: (i) the annotation of rephrase types to identify locutionary and illocutionary aspects of rephrase, (ii) the crowd–sourced examination of rephrase types to investigate their perlocutionary effects. As it draws on Waltonian insights and on empirical and experimental research on the (mis)use of rephrase, our approach allows us to ground a novel theoretically–informed and data–driven pragmatic account of rephrase.

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Published

2022-03-16

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Vol. 42 No. 1 (2022): Special Issue: Douglas Walton and his Contributions to Argumentation Theory

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