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In:Prototypical Argumentative Patterns: Exploring the relationship between argumentative discourse and institutional context
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren
[Argumentation in Context 11] 2017
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Chapter 2
Argumentative patterns viewed from a pragma-dialectical perspective

Published online: 14 August 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.11.02van
Article outline
  • 2.1Introduction
  • 2.2The pragma-dialectical standard theory
  • 2.3The extended pragma-dialectical theory
  • 2.4Taking the institutional context of argumentative discourse into account
  • 2.5Prototypical argumentative patterns
  • 2.6Argumentative patterns with pragmatic argumentation as main argument
  • Notes
  • References
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