The Structure of Arguments
1st Edition
Published on 4. October 2001
XX, 263 pages
978-90-272-9829-4 (ISBN)
Description
An important tool for scientific study in any field is a formal language in which the phenomena can be described and hypotheses formulated. In this book a formal notation is developed for the description of the cognitive structure of arguments. The analyses based on this notation are more fine-grained than the analyses in previous attempts, and they are applicable not only to arguments but to all types of moves in a discourse. Further, the notational system provides a basis for the description of relations between arguments and the structure of the discourse as a whole. In the final chapter, some empirical studies of retention of arguments in memory and of précis writing are reported, based on hypotheses formulated in terms of the notational system.
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Izchak M. Schlesinger | Tamar Keren-Portnoy | Tamar Parush
The Structure of Arguments
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Content
- The Structure of Arguments
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Reasoning and arguing
- Chapter 2 Arguments as operations
- Chapter 3 Operators,targets,outcomes
- Chapter 4 Compounds
- Chapter 5 Justi W cations
- Chapter 6 Con X ations
- Chapter 7 Questions
- Chapter 8 Connections
- Chapter 9 Relations within and between arguments
- Chapter 10 Expressed arguments
- Notes
- References
- Appendices
- Author index
- Subject index
- List of symbols
