Argumentative Style: A Pragma-Dialectical Study of Functional Variety in Argumentative Discourse

by Sara Greco, Bart Garssen, Frans H. Eemeren

Argumentative Style discusses the various ways in which the defence of a standpoint is given shape in argumentative discourse. In this innovative study the new notion - 'argumentative style' - introduced for this purpose is situated in the theoretical framework of the pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation. This means that the choices involved in utilising a particular argumentative style do not only concern the presentational dimension, but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027211353
• ISBN13: 9789027211354
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 332 Pages