Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse
：Extending the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation
( Argumentation in Context )
Publication subTitle ：Extending the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation
Publication series ： Argumentation in Context
Author： Frans H. van Eemeren
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2010
E-ISBN: 9789027288271
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027211194
Subject： H05 Writing and Rhetoric
Language： ENG
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Description
Van Eemeren’s book offers its readers a comprehensive, unified, updated, self- contained, and well-written account of the extended theory of pragma-dialectics. As such it constitutes a key text of contemporary theory of argumentation, straight from the horse’s mouth. The author shows how the concept of strategic maneuvering can be used to combine dialectical and rhetorical points of view, and how the resulting extended theory works when applied to the analysis and evaluation of argumentation in various domains of communicative activity. The book contains fresh approaches to fallacies, burden of proof, and inconsistency. It is very rich in discussing historical roots as well as contributions from related contemporary research, and even sets up an agenda for future research.