Argumentative Discourse: From Strategic Maneuvering to Argumentative Style
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Enabling students to understand how they can successfully prepare oral and written argumentative discourse, this book provides a pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation. It demonstrates what is involved in approaching argumentative discourse from the perspective of strategic maneuvering and allows students to put their skills and knowledge into practice through end-of-chapter exercises. It also provides readers with a set of rules for choosing between reasonable and fallacious argumentative moves and a series of recommendations for selecting argumentative styles.
Written by leading experts, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Argumentation, Communication Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Law.
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Frans H. van Eemeren is Professor Emeritus of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory, and Rhetoric in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is the co-author of Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies (Routledge, 1992), Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory (Routledge, 1996), and Argumentation (Routledge, 2017).
Ton van Haaften is Professor Emeritus of Dutch Discourse Studies at the University Centre for Linguistics in the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University, the Netherlands.
