Strategic maneuvering in European Parliamentary Debate

Garssen, Bart

doi:10.1075/bct.76.02gar

In:Argumentation in Political Deliberation
Edited by Marcin Lewiński and Dima Mohammed
[Benjamins Current Topics 76] 2015
► pp. 33–46

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Strategic maneuvering in European Parliamentary Debate

Bart Garssen | University of Amsterdam

Published online: 10 July 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.76.02gar

This chapter focuses on argumentation the institutional context of debate in the European Parliament. A parliamentary debate is a distinct argumentative activity type. In the pragma-dialectical approach, argumentative activity types are defined as conventionalized argumentative practices in which the possibilities for strategic maneuvering are predetermined. What are the characteristics of the activity type of a debate in European Parliament that predetermine the possibilities for strategic maneuvering?

Keywords: communicative activity type, European Parliament, political argumentation, pragma-dialectics, strategic maneuvering

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