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The Structure of Arguments
An important tool for scientific study in any field is a formal language in which the phenomena can be described and hypotheses formulated. In this book a formal notation is developed for the description of the cognitive structure of arguments. The analyses based on this notation are more fine-grained than the analyses in previous attempts, and they are applicable not only to arguments but to all types of moves in a discourse. Further, the notational system provides a basis for the description of relations between arguments and the structure of the discourse as a whole. In the final chapter, some empirical studies of retention of arguments in memory and of précis writing are reported, based on hypotheses formulated in terms of the notational system.
[Human Cognitive Processing, 7] 2001. xx, 263 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. xi–xii
- Introduction | pp. xiii–xx
- 1. Reasoning and arguing | pp. 1–12
- 2. Arguments as operations | pp. 13–24
- 3. Operators, targets, outcomes | pp. 25–64
- 4. Compounds | pp. 65–78
- 5. Justifications | pp. 79–108
- 6. Conflations | pp. 109–128
- 7. Questions | pp. 129–146
- 8. Connections | pp. 147–162
- 9. Relations within and between arguments | pp. 163–190
- 10. Expressed arguments | pp. 191–222
- Notes | pp. 223–238
- Appendices | pp. 247–252
- Author index | pp. 253–256
- Subject index | pp. 257–260
- List of symbols | pp. 261–263
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