Genre and language constraints in scientific controversies: Arguing in the grooves

Fahnestock, Jeanne

doi:10.1075/aic.9.01fah

In:Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen
[Argumentation in Context 9] 2015
► pp. 3–28

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Arguing in the grooves

Genre and language constraints in scientific controversies

Jeanne Fahnestock | University of Maryland

Published online: 30 October 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.9.01fah

In this study, several scientific controversies are analyzed to identify some of the genre-specific constraints, both visual and verbal, that affect the resolution of these academic exchanges.

Keywords: academic exchange, genre-specific constraint, scientific controversies

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