Argumentation and Language — Linguistic, Cognitive and Discursive Explorations

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Argumentation and Language — Linguistic, Cognitive and Discursive Explorations

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edited by Steve Oswald, Thierry Herman, Jérôme Jacquin

Contributor

• Jacquin, Jérôme
• Oswald, Steve
• Herman, Thierry

Editor

• Herman, Thierry
• Jacquin, Jérôme
• Oswald, Steve

Subject

• Applied linguistics
• Discourse analysis
• Linguistics -- Philosophy
• Pragmatics
• Semantics

Language

eng

Summary

This volume focuses on the role language plays at all levels of the argumentation process. It explores the effects that specific linguistic choices may have in the production and the reception of arguments and in doing so, it moves beyond the first, necessary, descriptive stance provided by current literature on the topic. Each chapter provides an original take illuminating one or more of the following three issues: the range of linguistic resources language users draw on as they argue; how cognitive processes of meaning construction may influence argumentative practices; and which discursive devices can be used to fulfil a number of argumentative goals. The volume includes theoretical and empirical or applied stances, providing the reader both with state-of-the-art reflections on the relationship between argumentation and language, and with concrete examples of how this relationship plays out in naturally occurring argumentative practices, such as classroom interaction, and political, parliamentary or journalistic discourse. This is a very original, timely and welcome contribution to the study of argumentation conducted with the tools of the language sciences. The collection of papers relevantly tackles key linguistic, discursive and cognitive aspects of argumentative practices whose treatment is underrepresented in mainstream argumentation studies by offering new and exciting linguistically-grounded theoretical accounts. As such, the volume testifies both to the vigour of the linguistic current within the discipline and to the high standards of scholarly commitment and quality that the younger generation is pushing forward. Without question, this book marks an important milestone in the relationships between linguistics and argumentation theory. Christian Plantin, Professor Emeritus.--

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• Argumentation Library,, 32

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non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Springer eBooks.
• Argumentation Library,

Series volume

32