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In:Persuasion in Specialized Discourse: A multidisciplinary perspective
Edited by Chiara Degano, Dora Renna and Francesca Santulli
[Argumentation in Context 22] 2024
► pp. 169–188

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Chapter 8
Argumentation and the “interaction of minds” in text

The case of discourse on art

 | (formerly) University of Florence, Italy
Published online: 25 October 2024
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.22.08tuc
Abstract
Whereas current theories stress argumentation’s interactional character and function, this chapter emphasizes its cognitive motivation and textual realization. Text itself will be understood as the record of a course of verbally mediated and interactionally negotiated cognitive explication, focused on some individual entity and progressively elaborated through the intertwining of two orders of speech act – one pragmatically endowing propositions with illocutionary force and cognitive intent, the other positing certain logico-rhetorical relations between them and thereby binding them into discursive coherence. The chapter will concentrate on discourse on visual art, as text typically aiming to explicate individual artworks or collections of such. Examples in English, Italian and French dating from the seventeenth century to the present will show how the same cognitive and communicative strategies are played out in different languages and periods.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Pragmatic implementation and assertive illocutionary force
  • 3. Textual ‘warp’ and state predication
  • 4. Textual ‘weft’ and propositional coordination
    • 4.1Argumentational coordination
    • 4.2 Referential and situational coordination
  • 5.A sample analysis
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Examples extracted from
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