Exploring Argumentative Contexts
1st Edition
Published on 28. March 2012
XX, 398 pages
978-90-272-7482-3 (ISBN)
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In Exploring Argumentative Contexts Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen bring together a broad variety of essays examining argumentation as it occurs in seven communicative domains: the political context, the historical context, the legal context, the academic context, the medical context, the media context, and the financial context. These essays are written by an international group of argumentation scholars, consisting of Corina Andone, Sarah Bigi, Robert T. Craig, Justin Eckstein, Frans H. van Eemeren, Norman Fairclough, Eveline Feteris, Gerd Fritz, Bart Garssen, Kara Gilbert, Thomas Gloning, G. Thomas Goodnight, Dale A. Herbeck, Darrin Hicks, Thomas Hollihan, Jos Hornikx, Isabela Ietcu-Fairclough, Gábor Kutrovátz, Maurizio Manzin, Davide Mazzi, Dima Mohammed, Rudi Palmieri, Angela G. Ray, Patricia Riley, Robert C. Rowland, Peter Schulz, Karen Tracy, and Gergana Zlatkova.
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- Exploring Argumentative Contexts
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Political context
- The reasonableness of confrontational strategic maneuvering in political interviews
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The reasonableness of strategic maneuvering
- 3. Soundness conditions for responses to an accusation of inconsistency
- 3.1 Soundness condition of openness
- 3.2 Soundness condition of relevance
- 3.3 Soundness condition of clarity
- 4. Conclusion
- References
- Values as premises in practical arguments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The structure of practical arguments
- 3. A prudential argument in favour of inequality: Inequality serves the general interest
- 4. Argument evaluation: The 'trickle-down' defence of inequality as blackmail
- 5. A moral argument against inequality: The state is committed to justice, therefore inequality should not be tolerated
- 6. Political values as desire-independent, external reasons for action
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Exploiting the room for strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse
- 1. The contextualization of strategic maneuvering in communicative activity types
- 2. Characterizing communicative activity types argumentatively
- 3. Extrinsic constraints on strategic maneuvering in political deliberation
- 4. The complexities of dealing with audience demand in political deliberation
- 5. The audience's frame of reference and the argumentative situation
- 6. Adapting to audience demand in the plenary debate in the European Parliament
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Strategic communication
- 1. Strategic communication, media diplomacy, and foreign policy arguments
- 2. A framework for analysis
- 3. US-Israel relations
- 4. The mini-case study
- 5. World Leader's arguments in response to the controversy
- 6. Israeli audience (including supporters)
- 7. US domestic audience
- 8. Palestine
- 9. Long time period diplomacy: The saga continues
- 10. Lessons learned: Arguments in media diplomacy
- References
- Arguments about 'rhetoric' in the 2008 US presidential election campaign
- 1. Rhetoric" in the 2008 campaign
- 2. Key events
- 3. Analysis
- 3.1 Rhetoric and reality
- 3.2 Eloquence and authenticity
- 3.3 Cult of celebrity
- 4. Concluding reflections
- References
- PART II Historical context
- Making history by analogy
- 1. Background of the case
- 2. Remembering Abraham Lincoln
- 3. Reading the U.S. Civil War via 16th-century Dutch history
- 4. "William the Silent" and its influence
- References
- Analogy in history
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Materials and methods
- 3. Results
- 4. Conclusions
- References
- Part III Legal context
- A rhetorical approach to legal reasoning
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A short historical reconstruction of italian jurisprudence after the second world war
- 3. The argumentative turn
- 4. Possible developments of cermeg's approach
- Reference
- Strategic manoeuvring in the case of the 'Unworthy spouse'
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Scheme (1A) Overview of the main structure of the argumentation of the Court of Appeal
- 1.2 Scheme (1B) Overview of the main structure of the argumentation of the Supreme Court
- 2. Analysis of the discussion strategy of the Supreme Court in the case of the 'Unworthy spouse'
- 2.1 The confrontation stage
- 2.2 The opening stage
- 2.3 The argumentation stage
- 2.4 The concluding stage
- Article 1:100 of the Old Dutch Civil Code
- Article 4.3 of the New Dutch Civil Code
- Article 6:248 of the Dutch Civil Code
- Article 3:12 of the Dutch Civil Code
- 3. Conclusion
- References
- A. Legal rules applied in the case of the unworty spouse
- B. Decision of the court of appeal
- C. Argumentation of the plaintiff in cassation
- D. Decision of the Supreme Court
- E. Text of the decision of the court of appeal NJ 1989/369, 24-11-1988
- F. Text of the decision of the Supreme Court NJ 1991/593 07-12-1990
- Everyday argument strategies in Appellate Court argument about same-sex marriage
- 1. Argument-building in public and personal exchanges
- 2. Oral argument and the two California cases
- 3. Everyday evaluation-tilting strategies at play during oral argument
- 3.1 A contested key definition
- 4. Reasonable or problematic analogies?
- 5. Stance-cuing non-focal terms
- 6. Conclusions
- References
- Student speech in public schools
- 1. About definitional argument
- 2 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District revisited
- 3. Diluting the disruption standard
- 4. Definitional argument and the future of student speech rights
- References
- part iv Academic context
- Expert authority and ad verecundiam arguments
- 1. The problem of ad verecundiam arguments
- 2. Some recent approaches to expertise
- 3. A rough case study
- 4. Conclusion
- References
- Critique and controversy in digital scientific communication
- 1. Introduction
- 2. On the attractivity and some problems of scientific controversies in interactive digital media
- 3. Reviews and replies
- 3.1 A review and an ensuing controversy on a mailinglist
- 3.2 Open peer review
- 3.3 Open peer review and blogs
- 4. Conclusion
- References
- PART V Medical context
- Drug advertising and clinical practice
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Biopolitics in the medical domain
- 3. State-of-the-art practices 'in flux'
- 4. Advertising for Mental Health
- 5. Case Studies: Analyses of DTCA for insomnia and depression
- 5.1 Depression: 'Cymbalta' (Depression hurts)
- 5.2 Insomnia: 'Rozerem'
- 6. Biopolitics and the critical turn to clinical communication
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Argumentative insights for the analysis of direct-to-consumer advertising
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The state of the art
- 3. Testing the generalizability of our claims on direct to consumer ads
- 4. Discussion
- References
- The battle for health care reform and the liberal public sphere
- 1. The liberal public sphere
- 2. The health care debate
- 3. Assessment of the debate
- 4. Conclusion
- References
- Contextual constraints on argumentation
- 1. The institutional context of medical consultations
- 2. The interpersonal dimension in the medical context: analysis of real-life data.
- 2.1 Common ground
- 2.2 Specialized knowledge and authority
- 3. Frequent argument schemes in the medical context
- 4. Concluding remarks
- References
- PART VI Media context
- The effects of hedges and pledges in advertisements for high and low reputation brands
- 1. Argumentation in advertising
- 2. Probability markers
- 3. Probability markers and reputation
- 4. Study 1
- 4.1 Method
- 4.2 Results
- 4.3 Conclusion and Discussion
- 5. Study 2
- 5.1 Method
- 5.2 Results
- 5.3 Conclusion and Discussion
- 6. General conclusion and discussion
- References
- Higher-order strategic maneuvering by shifting standards of reasonableness in cold-war editorial argumentation
- 1. Sweet reasonableness: strategic maneuvering and second-order conditions
- 2. Disarmament and distrust: strategic maneuvering and third-order conditions.
- 3. Conclusion
- References
- PART VIII Financial context
- The diversifying of contextual constraints and argumentative strategies in friendly and hostile takeover bids
- 1. Introduction: Considering argumentation in the financial context
- 2. The notion of argumentative situation
- 3. Friendly and hostile bids as kindred activity types
- 3.1 Argumentative commitments imposed by takeover rules
- 3.2 Bidder's motives and standpoint
- 3.3 Target's motives and standpoints
- 3.4 Two different confrontational situations
- 4. Comparing argumentation in friendly and hostile bids
- 4.1 The emergence of two different confrontation stages
- 4.2 The argumentative coordination in friendly bids
- 4.3 The argumentation battle in hostile offers
- 4.4 Shareholders' decision-making and the emergence of a new argumentative situation
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Reported argumentation in economic-financial news
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Classification of the forms of reported speech
- 3. Reported argumentation and reporting as argumentation
- 3.1 Reporting an opinion of the source: distancing vs. argument from authority
- 3.2 Reporting an argumentation of the source
- 3.3 Complex configurations of journalist's argumentation and source argumentation
- 4. Conclusion
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
