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In:Argumentation in Actual Practice: Topical studies about argumentative discourse in context
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen
[Argumentation in Context 17] 2019
► pp. 173–194

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Chapter 10
Prototypical argumentative patterns in activist discourse

The case of the Greenpeace Detox Campaign

 | International University of Languages and Media (IULM)Milan, Italy
Published online: 23 September 2019
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Corpus and methodology
  • 3.Argumentative patterns and scientificity in Greenpeace reports
  • 4.Argumentation in The Detox Catwalk
    • 4.1Reconstruction of argumentation in The Detox Catwalk
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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