Argumentation and Language — Linguistic, Cognitive and Discursive Explorations

290 Pages·2018·5.1 MB·English

by  Steve Oswald

Argumentation Library
Steve Oswald
Thierry Herman
Editors
Jérôme Jacquin
Argumentation
and Language-
Linguistic, Cognitive
and Discursive
Explorations
Argumentation Library
Volume 32
Series editor
Frans H. van Eemeren, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Speech
Communication, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Maurice A. Finocchiaro, University of Nevada, USA
Bart Garssen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
David Zarefsky, Northwestern University, USA
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Language-Linguistic,
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Editors
SteveOswald Jérôme Jacquin
English Department Section of LanguageandInformation
University of Fribourg Sciences
Fribourg University of Lausanne
Switzerland Lausanne
Switzerland
Thierry Herman
Institute of French Literature
University of Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
Switzerland
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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Steve Oswald, Thierry Herman and Jérôme Jacquin
Part I Linguistic Resources of Argumentation
2 A Linguistic Revision of Toulmin’s Layout of Arguments . . . . . . . 25
Thierry Herman
3 Style and Grammar in Political Discourse: Complementation
and Its Argumentative-Rhetorical Potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Maarten van Leeuwen
4 EvidentialandArgumentativeFunctionsofDynamicAppearance
Verbs in Italian: The Example of Rivelare and Emergere . . . . . . . . 73
Johanna Miecznikowski
5 Tracing the Roots of Defeasible Reasoning Through
Argumentative Indicators: A Study of the Italian Verb
Sembra in Opinion Articles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Elena Musi
6 What Is the Contribution of Connectives to Discourse
Meaning? The With or Without Issue (WWI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Jacques Moeschler
Part II Argumentative Processes: Cognition and Discourse
7 Argumentation as a Bridge Between Metaphor and Reasoning . . . 153
Francesca Ervas, Elisabetta Gola and Maria Grazia Rossi
8 The Straw Man Fallacy as a Prestige-Gaining Device. . . . . . . . . . . 171
Louis de Saussure
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9 Types of Dialogue and Pragmatic Ambiguity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Fabrizio Macagno and Sarah Bigi
10 Practical Argumentation in the Making: Discursive
Construction of Reasons for Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Marcin Lewiński
11 Exercising Accountability in European Parliamentary Debates
on Statements: An Argumentative Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Dima Mohammed
12 Collaborative Decision-Making in Argumentative Group
Discussions Among Primary School Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Vera Mundwiler and Judith Kreuz
About the Authors (Editors and Contributors).... .... .... ..... .... 287
Contributors
Sarah Bigi Dipartimento di Scienze linguistiche e letterature straniere, Università
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Francesca Ervas Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia, Filosofia, Università di
Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Elisabetta Gola Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia, Filosofia, Università di
Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Thierry Herman Institute of French Literature, University of Neuchâtel,
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Jérôme Jacquin Section of Language and Information Sciences, University of
Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Judith Kreuz Pädagogische Hochschule Zug, Zug, Switzerland
Maarten van Leeuwen Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden
University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Marcin Lewiński ArgLab, Nova Institute of Philosophy, FCSH, Universidade
Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Fabrizio Macagno ArgLab, Nova Institute of Philosophy, FCSH, Universidade
Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Johanna Miecznikowski Istituto di studi italiani, Università della Svizzera ital-
iana, Lugano, Switzerland
Jacques Moeschler Départment de Linguistique, Université de Genève, Geneva,
Switzerland
Dima Mohammed ArgLab, Nova Institute of Philosophy, FCSH, Universidade
Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Vera Mundwiler Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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viii Contributors
Elena Musi Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
Steve Oswald Department of English, University of Fribourg, Fribourg,
Switzerland
Maria Grazia Rossi ArgLab, Nova Institute of Philosophy, FCSH, Universidade
Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Louis de Saussure Institut des Sciences du Langage et de la Communication,
Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Chapter 1
Introduction
Steve Oswald, Thierry Herman and Jérôme Jacquin
Abstract This collective volume is devoted to the exploration of the intricate
relationships between argumentative practices and the linguistic, discursive and
cognitive underpinnings of their verbal realisation. The volume gathers a selection
of 11 contributions that were presented during the inaugural edition of the
Argumentation and Language conference series (ARGAGE), which took place at
the University of Lausanne in September 2015. The thematic unity of this volume
thereforestemsfromacommoncommitment,fromallcontributors,totheadoption
of a linguistically-informed perspective applied to the study of argumentative
practices.
1.1 Linguistics and Argumentation
This collective volume is devoted to the exploration of the intricate relationships
between argumentative practices and the linguistic, discursive and cognitive
underpinnings of their verbal realisation. The volume gathers a selection of 11
contributionsthatwerepresentedduringtheinauguraleditionoftheArgumentation
and Language conference series (ARGAGE),1 which took place at the University
1ARGAGE2015,www.unil.ch/argage2015.
S.Oswald(&)
DepartmentofEnglish,UniversityofFribourg,Av.del’Europe20,1700Fribourg,
Switzerland
e-mail:[email protected]
T.Herman
InstituteofFrenchLiterature,UniversityofNeuchâtel,RuePierre-à-Mazel7,
2000Neuchâtel,Switzerland
e-mail:[email protected]
J.Jacquin
SectionofLanguageandInformationSciences,UniversityofLausanne,
BâtimentAnthropole,1015Lausanne,Switzerland
e-mail:[email protected]
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