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	Argumentation and the Social Grounds of Knowledge Charles Arthur Willard University of Alabama Press, 2009 Library of Congress BC177.W54 1983 \| Dewey Decimal 121.3 *Seeks to suggest more productive ways of understanding some of the key issues in argumentation theory* A follow-up volume to Willard’s Theory of Argumentation”, Argumentation and the Social Grounds of Knowledge seeks to suggest more productive ways of understanding some of the key issues in argumentation theory. Most importantly is the premise that the precise and useful sense of the term “argument” is a form of social interaction, a kind of interaction in which two or more people maintain what they believe to be incompatible positions. The investigations in this book specify argumentation’s self-definition as a scholarly field and its empirical agenda. Arguments are aimed at theorists, researcher, and critics within the discipline, at the same time endeavoring to prove that argument studies are fundamental to other lines of inquiry as well Expand Description
	Meaning, Intentions, and Argumentation Kepa Korta and Garmendia CSLI, 2008 Library of Congress B840.M4575 2008 What is the relationship between words and reality? Which are the best ways to convince or persuade other people? Besides philosophy and grammar, ancient Greeks developed rhetoric to answer these questions. The twentieth-century brought the birth of semantics and pragmatics for a systematic study of linguistic meaning and linguistic acts. Meaning, Intentions, and Argumentation brings together the work of leading contemporary scholars approaching those issues from various perspectives—from the old disciplines of philosophy and rhetoric to the newest thinking on semantics and pragmatics—to illuminate crucial aspects of meaning, communication, argumentation, and persuasion. Expand Description
	A Theory of Argumentation Charles Arthur Willard University of Alabama Press, 1989 Library of Congress BC177.W544 1989 \| Dewey Decimal 168 Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Establishes a theoretical context for, and to elaborate the implications of, the claim that argument is a form of interaction in which two or more people maintain what they construe to be incompatible positions The thesis of this book is that argument is not a kind of logic but a kind of communication—conversation based on disagreement. Claims about the epistemic and political effects of argument get their authority not from logic but from their “fit with the facts” about how communication works. A Theory of Communication thus offers a picture of communication—distilled from elements of symbolic interactionism, personal construct theory, constructivism, and Barbara O’Keefe’s provocative thinking about logics of message design. The picture of argument that emerges from this tapestry is startling, for it forces revisions in thinking about knowledge, rationality, freedom, fallacies, and the structure and content of the argumentation discipline. Expand Description

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3 books about Argumentation

Argumentation and the Social Grounds of Knowledge

Charles Arthur Willard

University of Alabama Press, 2009

Seeks to suggest more productive ways of understanding some of the key issues in argumentation theory

A follow-up volume to Willard’s Theory of Argumentation”, Argumentation and the Social Grounds of Knowledge seeks to suggest more productive ways of understanding some of the key issues in argumentation theory.

Most importantly is the premise that the precise and useful sense of the term “argument” is a form of social interaction, a kind of interaction in which two or more people maintain what they believe to be incompatible positions. The investigations in this book specify argumentation’s self-definition as a scholarly field and its empirical agenda. Arguments are aimed at theorists, researcher, and critics within the discipline, at the same time endeavoring to prove that argument studies are fundamental to other lines of inquiry as well

Meaning, Intentions, and Argumentation

Kepa Korta and Garmendia

What is the relationship between words and reality? Which are the best ways to convince or persuade other people? Besides philosophy and grammar, ancient Greeks developed rhetoric to answer these questions. The twentieth-century brought the birth of semantics and pragmatics for a systematic study of linguistic meaning and linguistic acts. Meaning, Intentions, and Argumentation brings together the work of leading contemporary scholars approaching those issues from various perspectives—from the old disciplines of philosophy and rhetoric to the newest thinking on semantics and pragmatics—to illuminate crucial aspects of meaning, communication, argumentation, and persuasion.

A Theory of Argumentation

Charles Arthur Willard

University of Alabama Press, 1989

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4

Establishes a theoretical context for, and to elaborate the implications of, the claim that argument is a form of interaction in which two or more people maintain what they construe to be incompatible positions

The thesis of this book is that argument is not a kind of logic but a kind of communication—conversation based on disagreement. Claims about the epistemic and political effects of argument get their authority not from logic but from their “fit with the facts” about how communication works. A Theory of Communication thus offers a picture of communication—distilled from elements of symbolic interactionism, personal construct theory, constructivism, and Barbara O’Keefe’s provocative thinking about logics of message design. The picture of argument that emerges from this tapestry is startling, for it forces revisions in thinking about knowledge, rationality, freedom, fallacies, and the structure and content of the argumentation discipline.