Grammatica dell'argomentare. Strategie e strutture

Inés Olza, Óscar Loureda & Manuel Casado-Velarde (eds.), Language Use in Public Sphere, Berna, Peter Lang, pp. 201-224, 2014

The Theory of Argumentation Within Language (TAL) is a semantic theory that was initiated during the mid-1970s by Oswald Ducrot, Jean-Claude Anscombre, and their followers-for the most part Romance Language scholars. Among other topics, this theory considers how the meaning of words conditions the dynamics of discourse, and, as will be shown in this article using linguistic criteria, also enables the demonstration of how some connotations of a text are produced. To achieve this, the TAL has developed easily comprehensible theoretical devices-such as that of argumentative orientation-and equally simple proofs-the use of but, for example-that demonstrate the importance of lexical selection in communication. They show, in other words, how a single fact can be understood in different ways according to the linguistic formulation chosen to communicate it. This article will provide numerous examples of this explicative ability of the TAL and will conclude with persuasive linguistic arguments that support certain proposals made by the defenders of "person first" language-often orthophemisms-as compared to the dysphemisms they are meant to replace.

Research in Language

This paper has a dual purpose: it both seeks to introduce the other works in this issue by illustrating how they are related to the field of argumentation as a whole, and to make clear the tremendous range of research currently being carried out by argumentation theorists which is concerned with the interaction and inter-reliance of language and argument. After a brief introduction to the development of the field of argumentation, as many as eight language-based approaches to the study of argument are identified, taking as their perspective: rhetoric, argument structure, argument as act, discourse analysis, corpus methods, emotive argument, and narrative argument. The conclusion makes it clear that these branches of study are all themselves interconnected and that it is the fusion of methodologies and theory from linguistics and the philosophical study of argument which lends this area of research its dynamism.

Linguistics meets philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2022

This chapter overviews recent work on the semantics and pragmatics of argumentative discourse, with particular attention to work on the se- mantics of argument connectives such as `therefore' in discourse coherence theory and in dynamic semantics as well as on modal analyses of `there- fore'.. In the nal section, I overview some issues that arise on the pragmatics of arguments, such as how we are to characterize the distinctive utterance force of arguments versus explanations.

In Giving Reasons: A Linguistic-pragmatic-approach to Argumentation Theory (Springer, 2011), I provide a new model for the semantic and pragmatic appraisal of argumentation. This model is based on a characterization of argumentation as a second order speech-act complex. I explain the advantages of this model respecting other proposals within Argumentation Theory, such as Pragma-dialectics, Informal Logic, the New Rhetoric or the Epistemic Approach.

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

مجلة کلية الآداب (الزقازيق), 2019

Advancing argumentation: The communicative force of assertive speech acts in Crest's translation of Remarque's 'Im Westen Nichts Neues' Abstract Asserting a claim means advancing argumentation by backing up reasonable arguments. It is a distinctive activity that requires a certain amount of intelligence. According to Searle (1969: 66), the act of asserting a claim or giving reasons is called arguing. In spite of the research presented for understanding the argumentative function of the language, the factors affecting the composition of an argumentative text varies according to several linguistic features. Thus, this study deals with the act of arguing in a political narrative from a pragmatic perspective. Just so, this study attempts to answer two main questions that have the same scope: (1) What are the pragmatic realizations of the act of asserting in narratives? And (2) What is the significance of the illocutionary force of assertive speech acts in advancing argumentation in written texts? The corpus of the study consists of some selected dramatic passages of Remarque's political novel with common English publication by Fawcett Crest. In answering the study questions, it is hypothesized that (1) the act of arguing in written texts, more specifically in political narratives, usually takes the form of an assertive, (2) a great coherent communicative force is best viewed in the illocutionary force of this act that leads to effective perlocutionary effects. In order to reach convincing results proving the hypothesis, a qualitative descriptive approach is developed for the analysis of the data relying on observation and introspective reading.

Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Filosofiya. Sotsiologiya. Politologiya

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The present paper offers a survey of prevailing lines of research on linguistic argumentation, which is a fundamental part of a logical communication structure of any sense bearing text. The paper explores the character and structure of linguistic argumentation with regards to communication and pragmatic aspects. It also substantiates a broad understanding of argumentation as an indispensable element for the universal communication process, which lies behind any piece of information to be transferred further on in the context of the discourse activity. Unlike most scholars who, while interpreting argumentation, focus on the logical (evidentiary) aspect of this phenomenon, the authors of the paper consider and prove argumentation to be a pragmatic framework to build any extended language construct characterized by relatively accomplished meaningfulness, i.e. conveying a certain informative value. Ranged and classified views on the nature of argumentation make it possible to draw a li...

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