Particular Reasoning versus universal human rights: A case of China
In this paper, I argue that there is objectivity in the international human rights law, against which the justifiability of arguments can be determined and the universality vs. relativity of human...
View ArticleArgumentation Mining in Parliamentary Discourse
In parliamentary discourse, politicians expound their beliefs and goals through argumentation, and, to persuade the audience, they communicate their values by highlighting some aspect of an issue, an...
View ArticleCommentary on “The Stance of Personal Public Apology”: Transgression &...
This paper responds to Professor Martha Cheng’s standpoint analysis of transgression and apologia in three twenty first century media-promoted controversies: Tiger Woods, Paula Deen, and Bryan...
View ArticleCommentary on “America vs. Apple: the Argumentative Function of Metonyms”:...
The government took Apple to court to demand decryption of a terrorist cell phone. The warrant issued rested on the assumption that law enforcement should be able to do its work through extension of...
View ArticleWhen Different Perspectives Interact: A Historical Account of Informal Logic...
This paper will describe what happened to the community of informal logicians between 1983 and 1987, when they started to interact with communication scholars, rhetoricians and Pragma-Dialecticians....
View ArticleOn the Objectivity of Norms of Argumentation
This paper addresses the relationship between norms of reasoning and norms of politeness: To what extend can one be polite and reasonable at the same time? For this purpose, a normative system of...
View ArticleConspiracy and bias: argumentative features and persuasiveness of conspiracy...
This paper deals with the argumentative biases Conspiracy Theories (henceforth CTs) typically suffer from and pursues two goals: (i) the identification of recurring argumentative and rhetorical...
View ArticleStrategies of objectification in opinion articles: the case of evidentials
This paper investigates lexical evidentials in an English corpus (30 texts) about oil drilling issues in the Adriatic Sea. Lexical evidentials (e.g. see, must, find, evidently) indicate “the kind of...
View ArticleCommentary on Scott Aikin, “A Modest Defense of Fallacy Theory”
Fallacy theory has not been my particular concern until now – even if I spoke here and there about fallacies; mainly about the two specimens which I consider to be of the highest importance for...
View ArticleBackground Nonverbal Disagreement during Televised Political Debates: A...
Since the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon presidential debates, interest in the impact of televised debates on political campaigns has grown steadily among scholars of argumentation and rhetorical communication....
View ArticleCommentary on Jan Albert van Laar and Erik C. W. Krabbe, “Splitting a...
Jan Albert van Laar and Erik Krabbe’s paper “Splitting a difference of opinion” studies an important type of dialogue shift, namely that from a deliberation dialogue over action or policy options...
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