A Systematic Theory of Argumentation
Subtitle: The pragma-dialectical approach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 24, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780521830751
Subjects: Logic; Rhetoric; Philosophy; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Pragmatics; General; Philosophy / General; Dialectic (Philosophy); Persuasion (Rhetoric)
First sentence: Argumentation is a verbal, social, and rational activity aimed at convincing a reasonable critic of the acceptability of a standpoint by putting forward a constellation of propositions justifying or refuting the proposition expressed in the standpoint.