Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics

Download or read book Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics written by Eveline T. Feteris and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics is written to honor Frans van Eemeren and his work in the field of argumentation theory on the occasion of his retirement. The volume contains 17 contributions from teams of authors consisting of a combination of a pragma-dialectician and one or two researchers with a different background in the field of argumentation. In this volume, comparisons between the pragma-dialectical approach and other approaches are made, aspects of strategic maneuvering such as the use of presentational techniques, adaptation to the audience and the selection of topics are dealt with and the influence of specific institutional contexts such as politics, medicine and internet forums on strategic maneuvering are discussed.