Prototypical Argumentative Patterns: Exploring the relationship between argumentative discourse and institutional context

196 Pages·2017·1.12 MB·English

by  Frans H. van Eemeren

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John Benjamins Publishing Company
Prototypical Argumentative Patterns
Argumentation in Context (AIC)
issn 1877-6884
This book series highlights the variety of argumentative practices that have become
established in modern society by focusing on the study of context-dependent
characteristics of argumentative discourse that vary according to the demands of the
more or less institutionalized communicative activity type in which the discourse
takes place. Examples of such activity types are parliamentary debates and political
interviews, medical consultations and health brochures, legal annotations and judicial
sentences, editorials and advertorials in newspapers, and scholarly reviews and essays.
For an overview of all books published in this series, please see
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Editors
Frans van Eemeren Bart Garssen
ILIAS & Leiden University ILIAS & University of Amsterdam
& University of Amsterdam
Editorial Board
Mark Aakhus Eddo Rigotti
Rutgers University University of Lugano
Marianne Doury Sara Rubinelli
CNRS Paris ILIAS, Swiss Paraplegic Research &
Eveline Feteris University of Lucerne
ILIAS & University of Amsterdam Takeshi Suzuki
G. Thomas Goodnight Meiji University
University of Southern California Giovanni Tuzet
Cornelia Ilie Bocconi University
Zayed University, Abu Dhabi David Zarefsky
Sally Jackson Northwestern University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gábor Zemplén
Manfred Kienpointner Budapest University of Technology
University of Innsbrueck and Economic
Volume 11
Prototypical Argumentative Patterns. Exploring the relationship
between argumentative discourse and institutional context
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren
Prototypical
Argumentative Patterns
Exploring the relationship between argumentative
discourse and institutional context
Edited by
Frans H. van Eemeren
ILIAS & Leiden University & University of Amsterdam
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Table of contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgment ix
chapter 1
Introduction 1
Frans H. van Eemeren
chapter 2
Argumentative patterns viewed from a pragma-dialectical perspective 7
Frans H. van Eemeren
chapter 3
The role of pragmatic problem-solving argumentation in plenary debate
in the European Parliament 31
Bart Garssen
chapter 4
The role of pragmatic and majority argumentation in reports of European
parliamentary committees of inquiry 53
Corina Andone
chapter 5
The role of pragmatic argumentation in the justification of judicial decisisons 71
Eveline T. Feteris
chapter 6
The role of pragmatic argumentation in over-the-counter medicine
advertisements 93
A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans
chapter 7
Argumentative patterns with argumentation by example
in legislative debate in the European Parliament 109
Bart Garssen
vi Prototypical Argumentative Patterns
chapter 8
Argumentative patterns with symptomatic argumentation
in the justification of judicial decisions 125
Eveline T. Feteris
chapter 9
Argumentative patterns with symptomatic argumentation
in over-the-counter medicine advertisements 139
A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans
chapter 10
The dependency of argumentative patterns on the institutional context 157
Frans H. van Eemeren
Authors 181
Index 183
Preface
Prototypical Argumentative Patterns: Exploring the Relationship between
Argumentative Discourse and Institutional Context presents the final report of the
Argumentative Patterns Project that we started at the University of Amsterdam
in 2012. It contains descriptions of argumentative patterns we have identified in
argumentative discourse in communicative activity types belonging to the polit-
ical, the legal, and the medical domain (occasionally supplemented by observa-
tions concerning the academic domain). The composition of these argumentative
patterns is in all cases explained by referring to the specific characteristics of the
communicative activity types in which they came into being.
Next to a short introductory chapter, my own contributions consist of the theo-
retical Chapter 2, in which the notion of argumentative patterns is introduced, and
Chapter 10, in which some general conclusions are drawn about the dependency
of argumentative discourse on the institutional context as it manifests itself in the
argumentative patterns that are characteristic of certain (clusters of) communicative
activity types. All other chapters deal with the identification of argumentative pat-
terns in specific communicative activity types in specific communicative domains.
They are all written by specialists familiar with argumentative discourse in the vari-
ous communicative domains concerned. The argumentative discourse in the political
domain is examined more closely by Bart Garssen (in Chapter 3 and Chapter 7) and
Corina Andone (in Chapter 4). Eveline T. Feteris reports (in Chapter 5 and Chapter 8)
about her research of argumentative patterns in the legal domain. A. Francisca Snoeck
Henkemans concentrates (in Chapter 6 and Chapter 9) on the specific characteristics
of argumentative discourse in the medical domain of health communication.
Earlier versions of Chapters 2–6 were published in a special issue of the journal
Argumentation (30(1)), published in 2016, and earlier versions of Chapters 7–10
in a special issue of the Journal of Argumentation in Context (6(1)), published in
2017. We are grateful for having had the opportunity to publish our results in this
way at an early stage, so that we could benefit from constructive comments from
readers. Although the study of argumentative patterns in the academic domain
has not been systematically incorporated in this volume, I would like to thank Jean
Wagemans for his contribution to the research of that domain in the preparatory
stage of the Argumentative Patterns Project.
Frans H. van Eemeren
19 January 2017

Acknowledgment
Most of the chapters are based on articles that were published earlier in the journal
Argumentation and the Journal of Argumentation in Context published by Springer
and John Benjamins respectively. The precise references of these earlier publica-
tions are as follows.
Chapter 2
Eemeren, F. H. van (2016). Identifying argumentative patterns. A vital step in the
development of pragma-dialectics. Argumentation, 30(1), 1–23.
Chapter 3
Garssen, B. (2016). Problem-solving argumentative patterns in plenary debates of
the European Parliament. Argumentation, 30(1), 25–43.
Chapter 4
Andone, C. (2016). Argumentative patterns in the political domain. The case of
European parliamentary committees of inquiry. Argumentation, 30(1), 45–60.
Chapter 5
Feteris, E. T. (2016). Prototypical argumentative patterns in a legal context. The
role of pragmatic argumentation in the justification of decisions. Argumentation,
30(1), 61–79.
Chapter 6
Snoeck Henkemans, A. F. (2016). Argumentative patterns in over-the-counter med-
icine advertisements. Argumentation, 30(1), 81–95.
Chapter 7
Garssen, B. (2017). The role of the argument by example in legislative debates of the
European Parliament. Journal of Argumentation in Context, 6(1), 27–43.
Chapter 8
Feteris, E. T. (2017). The identification of prototypical argumentative patterns in the
justification of judicial decisions. Journal of Argumentation in Context, 6(1), 44–58.
Chapter 9
Snoeck Henkemans, A. F. (2017). Argumentative patterns using symptomatic argu-
mentation in over-the-counter medicine advertisements. Journal of Argumentation
in Context, 6(1), 59–75.
Chapter 10
Eemeren, F. H. van (2017). Context-dependency of argumentative discourse.
Journal of Argumentation in Context, 6(1), 3–26.