Strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse in political deliberation

van Eemeren, Frans H.

doi:10.1075/jaic.2.1.01eem

Article published In: Argumentation in political deliberation
Edited by Marcin Lewiński and Dima Mohammed
[Journal of Argumentation in Context 2:1] 2013
► pp. 10–31

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Strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse in political deliberation

Frans H. van Eemeren | ILIAS, Emeritus Professor University of Amsterdam

Published online: 13 May 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.2.1.01eem

In this essay, first the pragma-dialectical theory of strategic maneuvering is explained. Then the focus is on the conventionalization of communicative practices in communicative activity types and the institutional constraints it imposes on strategic maneuvering. Thus, an adequate background is created for discussing, on the basis of several recent projects, pragma-dialectical research of argumentative discourse in the political domain.

Keywords: communicative activity type, confrontational strategic maneuver(ing), argumentative characterization, institutional precondition, (extended) pragma-dialectics, strategic maneuvering., (political) deliberation, institutional point

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