Argumentative patterns in discourse

Author Information

Frans H. van Eemeren, University of Amsterdam, ILIAS & Speech Communication, Argumentation theory and RhetoricFollow
Bart Garssen, University of Amsterdam, ILIAS & Speech Communication, Argumentation theory and RhetoricFollow

Location

University of Windsor

Document Type

Paper

Keywords

argumentative pattern, communicative activity type, strategic manoeuvring, pragma-dialectics, European Parliament

Start Date

22-5-2013 9:00 AM

End Date

25-5-2013 5:00 PM

Abstract

This paper discusses the ways in which argumentative discourse prototypically manifests itself. As a consequence of the institutional preconditions applying to the strategic manoeuvring taking place in specific communicative activity types, certain context-dependent argumentative patterns of standpoints, argument schemes and argumentation structures can be observed. Because of their interest in the extent to which argumentative discourse is context-dependent, pragma-dialecticians are out to discover such specific patterns. As a case in point, the authors discuss some institutionally motivated argumentative patterns in parliamentary debate in the European Parliament.

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Response to Submission

G. Thomas Goodnight, Commentary on: Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen's "Argumentative patterns in discourse"

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G. Thomas Goodnight, Commentary on: Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen's "Argumentative patterns in discourse" (May 2013)