Dialectic and Rhetoric: The Warp and Woof of Argumentation Analysis

by Peter Houtlosser and Frans H. van Eemeren

In 1999 we invited a small number of colleagues to take part in a colloquium - voted to the analysis of argumentative discourse from two kinds of perspective: a dialectical and a rhetorical perspective. Our intention was to start a thorough disc- sion on the commonalities and differences between the two approaches. In this way we hoped to promote the development of analytic tools for dealing with argum- tation in which, in some way or other, the merits...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 904816057X
• ISBN13: 9789048160570
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"