Overview
- Provides Argumentation Theory with a new, linguistic approach
- Integrates argumentation’s logical, dialectical and rhetorical dimensions
- Solves challenging meta-theoretical questions, e.g. the justification problem
Part of the book series: Argumentation Library (ARGA, volume 20)
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The book takes into consideration the major current comprehensive accounts of good argumentation (Perelman’s New Rhetoric, Pragma-dialectics, the ARG model, the Epistemic Approach) and shows that these accounts have fundamental weaknesses rooted in their instrumentalist conception of argumentation as an activity oriented to a goal external to itself. Furthermore, the author addresses some challenging meta-theoretical questions such as the justification problem for Argumentation Theory models and the relationship between reasoning and arguing.
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Keywords
- Argumentation
- Argumentation Theory
- Argumentative Value
- Burden of Proof
- Cognitivism
- Deductivism
- Deep Relativism
- Dialectics
- Douglas Walton
- Formal Logic
- Frans H van Eemeren
- Indirect Judgements
- Inference
- Informal Logic
- Instrumentalism
- Interpretation
- Justification
- Logical Possibilities
- Nature of Logic
- Normativity
Table of contents (7 chapters)
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“Bermejo-Luque’s book Giving Reasons has the ambition of developing a new theoretical approach to argumentation that integrates logical, dialectical and rhetorical aspects. The author uses speech act theory to realize her ideal of ‘a linguistic-pragmatic approach’ to argumentation. … provide a coherent, systematic and comprehensive model for argument analysis and evaluation which overcomes the shortcomings of the current models and approaches to argumentation. … Giving Reasons will be of interest to argumentation theorists, as it raises some important issues.” (C. Andone, Argumentation, Vol. 26, 2012)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Giving Reasons
Book Subtitle: A Linguistic-Pragmatic Approach to Argumentation Theory
Authors: Lilian Bermejo Luque
Series Title: Argumentation Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1761-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1760-2Published: 31 July 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3784-6Published: 27 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1761-9Published: 31 July 2011
Series ISSN: 1566-7650
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1907
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 209
Topics: Linguistics, general, Logic, Epistemology, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Learning & Instruction, Philosophy of Language