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In:Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peng Wu
[Argumentation in Context 12] 2017
► pp. 123–144

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Chapter 8
Strategic manoeuvring in argumentative discourse in political deliberation

Published online: 12 December 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.12.08van
Article outline
  • 1.Strategic manoeuvring in argumentative discourse
  • 2. Conventionalization of communicative practices in communicative activity types
  • 3.Institutional constraints on strategic manoeuvring
  • 4.Pragma-dialectical research of argumentative discourse in the political domain
  • Notes
  • References
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