Article published In: Context-dependency of Argumentative Patterns
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren
[Journal of Argumentation in Context 6:1] 2017
► pp. 3–26
Context-dependency of argumentative patterns in discourse
Published online: 6 April 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.6.1.01eem
https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.6.1.01eem
Abstract
This introductory article concludes the examination of prototypical argumentative patterns manifesting themselves in communicative activity types in the political, legal and medical domain reported in this special issue of the Journal of Argumentation in Context (JAIC) and an earlier special issue of the journal Argumentation (2016, 30(1)). First, the results pertaining to the use of pragmatic argumentation in the main argumentation of prototypical argumentative patterns in the various domains are described that were reported in the latter issue. Next, the results are described which are reported in this issue of JAIC; they pertain to prototypical argumentative patterns in the various domains that come into being as a result of the employment of an argument scheme in the main argumentation that is perfectly suited for being used in a certain communicative activity type in a specific domain. In the following section an overview is provided of the most conspicuous differences in the prototypical argumentative patterns between the various communicative domains caused by the institutional preconditions for strategic maneuvering in the communicative activity types that were examined. Finally, some general conclusions are discussed.
Article outline
- 1.Prototypical argumentative patterns
- 2.Exploitation of the same argument scheme
- 3.Exploitation of different argument schemes
- 4.Institutional rationales of argumentative patterns
- 4.1Prototypical patterns exploiting the same argument scheme
- Basic patterns of the main argumentation
- Elaborate patterns of extended argumentation
- 4.2Prototypical patterns based on differentiated argument schemes
- Basic patterns of the main argumentation
- Elaborate patterns of extended argumentation
- 4.1Prototypical patterns exploiting the same argument scheme
- 5.Conclusion
- Notes
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