Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies: A Pragma-dialectical Perspective

by Eemeren F.H. van, Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst

Book Overview

This volume gives a theoretical account of the problem of analyzing and evaluating argumentative discourse. After placing argumentation in a communicative perspective, and then discussing the fallacies that occur when certain rules of communication are violated, the authors offer an alternative to both the linguistically-inspired descriptive and logically-inspired normative approaches to argumentation.

The authors characterize argumentation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805810692
• ISBN13: 9780805810691
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"