Strategic maneuvering in European Parliamentary Debate

Garssen, Bart

doi:10.1075/jaic.2.1.02gar

Article published In: Argumentation in political deliberation
Edited by Marcin Lewiński and Dima Mohammed
[Journal of Argumentation in Context 2:1] 2013
► pp. 33–46

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Strategic maneuvering in European Parliamentary Debate

Bart Garssen | University of Amsterdam

Published online: 13 May 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.2.1.02gar

This paper 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, Political argumentation, pragma-dialectics, strategic maneuvering, European Parliament

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