Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory: A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments

by Christian Plantin, Charles A. Willard, Frans H. van Eemeren, et al.

Book Overview

Argumentation theory is a distinctly multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It draws its data, assumptions, and methods from disciplines as disparate as formal logic and discourse analysis, linguistics and forensic science, philosophy and psychology, political science and education, sociology and law, and rhetoric and artificial intelligence. This presents the growing group of interested scholars and students with a problem of access, since it is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805818626
• ISBN13: 9780805818628
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"