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Article published In: Journal of Argumentation in Context
Vol. 14:1 (2025) ► pp.98–126

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Sharing a language, sharing the argumentative attitude?

The case of South American immigration in Chile today

ORCiD logo with link | Universidad Católica de la Santísima de Concepción
ORCiD logo with link | Western Illinois University
Published online: 17 April 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.24018.san
Abstract
In this paper, we describe and analyze how immigrants in Chile (N = 388, from Colombia, Perú and Venezuela), conceive having a disagreement and how they value the practice of giving reasons. For this purpose, we applied a survey that measures different argumentative tendencies. For the most part, we found all three immigrant groups to be comparable in how they thought and felt about arguing, but that age and gender were structural variables that made important differences in the way people conceived the practice of giving reasons.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Studying interpersonal arguing: Motivations, understandings, and emotional attitudes to arguing
  • 3.Research aims and argumentative dimensions
  • 4.Method
    • 4.1Samples
    • 4.2Instrumentation
  • 5.Results
    • 5.1Research question 1: Immigrants’ general orientations
    • 5.2Research question 2: Sex differences
    • 5.3Research question 3: Age, power distance, and education
  • 6.Discussion
  • 7.Conclusions
  • Data availability statement
  • Disclosure of interest
  • References
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