Bart Garssen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bart Garssen is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1877-6884
Journal
Journal of Argumentation in Context
Edited by Nanon Labrie and Menno H. Reijven
ISSN 2211-4742 | E‑ISSN 2211‑4750
Argumentation in European Politics
Edited by Corina Andone and Bart Garssen
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 11:1 (2022) v, 155 pp.
Argumentative Style: A pragma-dialectical study of functional variety in argumentative discourse
Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Sara Greco, Ton van Haaften, Nanon Labrie, Fernando Leal and Peng Wu
Argumentative Style discusses the various ways in which the defence of a standpoint is given shape in argumentative discourse. In this innovative study the new notion – ‘argumentative style’ – introduced for this purpose is situated in the theoretical framework of the pragma-dialectical approach to… read more[Argumentation in Context, 20] 2022. x, 332 pp.
Argumentation between Doctors and Patients: Understanding clinical argumentative discourse
Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Nanon Labrie
Argumentation between Doctors and Patients discusses the use of argumentation in clinical settings. Starting from the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, it aims at providing an understanding of argumentative discourse in the context of doctor-patient interaction. It explains when and how… read more[Not in series, 235] 2021. x, 155 pp.
Argumentation in Actual Practice: Topical studies about argumentative discourse in context
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen
Argumentation in Actual Practice contains a collection of topical studies about argumentative discourse in context written by argumentation scholars from a diversity of academic backgrounds. Some contributions provide general perspectives, other contributions deal with specific issues, particular… read more[Argumentation in Context, 17] 2019. xiv, 336 pp.
Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen
Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice contains a selection of papers reflecting upon the use of argumentation in real life contexts. The first five sections are devoted to argumentation in a specific institutional context: scientific controversies, argumentation in politics, argumentation in a… read more[Argumentation in Context, 9] 2015. ix, 343 pp.
Exploring Argumentative Contexts
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen
In Exploring Argumentative Contexts Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen bring together a broad variety of essays examining argumentation as it occurs in seven communicative domains: the political context, the historical context, the legal context, the academic context, the medical context, the… read more[Argumentation in Context, 4] 2012. xx, 398 pp.
Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren
Edited by Eveline T. Feteris, Bart Garssen and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans
Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics is written to honor Frans van Eemeren and his work in the field of argumentation theory on the occasion of his retirement. The volume contains 17 contributions from teams of authors consisting of a combination of a pragma-dialectician and one or two… read more[Not in series, 163] 2011. vi, 283 pp.
Controversy and Confrontation: Relating controversy analysis with argumentation theory
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen
The essays that are collected in Controversy and Confrontation provide a closer insight into the relationship between controversy and confrontation that deepens our understanding of the functioning of argumentative discourse in managing differences of opinion. Their authors stem from two… read more[Controversies, 6] 2008. xiii, 278 pp.
2026 For your own good: A replication of hidden fallaciousness research Journal of Argumentation in Context: Online-First Articles | Article
In pragma-dialectics fallacies are viewed as violations of rules for critical discussion. The results of the ‘Conceptions of reasonableness’ project indicate that people confronted with clear cases of violations of these rules in experimental research consistently judge them as unreasonable. How… read more
2025 Changing the Editorship of JAIC Journal of Argumentation in Context 14:1, pp. 1–2 | Editorial
2024 A definite must read: Argumentation in literary reviews Journal of Argumentation in Context 13:3, pp. 373–399 | Article
The present study aims at clarifying how in literary reviews value judgements about novels are justified. For this purpose we first give an overall description of the place of literary reviews in journalism. Then, we characterize literary reviews as an argumentative activity type. Next, we turn… read more
2022 Introduction Argumentation in European Politics, Andone, Corina and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Introduction
2022 The argumentative style of the opening speech of a debate in the European Parliament Argumentation in European Politics, Andone, Corina and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 47–68 | Article
In this contribution a characterization is given of the argumentative style utilised in an opening speech of a plenary debate in the European Parliament. This debate is initiated through an opening speech in which the rapporteur of a parliamentary committee presents the European Commission’s… read more
2019 Chapter 1. A collection of studies of argumentation in practice Argumentation in Actual Practice: Topical studies about argumentative discourse in context, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter
2019 Chapter 17. And then you are left holding the baby!: Strategic manoeuvring with the argumentum ad consequentiam Argumentation in Actual Practice: Topical studies about argumentative discourse in context, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 321–334 | Chapter
2017 The role of the argument by example in legislative debates of the European Parliament Context-dependency of Argumentative Patterns, Eemeren, Frans H. van (ed.), pp. 27–43 | Article
This paper focuses on the role of the argument by example in the argumentation put forward by Members of the European Parliament. The argumentative patterns that come into being in legislative debates in the European Parliament depend for the most part on the problem-solving argumentation that… read more
2017 Chapter 9. Strategic maneuvering in European Parliamentary debate Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Peng Wu (eds.), pp. 145–158 | Chapter
2015 The disguised ad baculum fallacy empirically investigated: Strategic maneuvering with threats Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 313–326 | Article
Ad baculum threats can be seen as a mode of strategic maneuvering which takes on a reasonable appearance in real life situations when it mimics, legitimate pragmatic argumentation. In this paper the hypothesis was tested that ad baculum fallacies are seen as less unreasonable than clear cases when… read more
2015 Strategic maneuvering in European Parliamentary Debate Argumentation in Political Deliberation, Lewiński, Marcin and Dima Mohammed (eds.), pp. 33–46 | Article
This chapter 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… read more
2013 Strategic maneuvering in European Parliamentary Debate Argumentation in political deliberation, Lewiński, Marcin and Dima Mohammed (eds.), pp. 33–46 | Article
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… read more
2012 Introduction Exploring Argumentative Contexts, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. xiii–xx | Article
2012 Chapter 3. Exploiting the room for strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse: Dealing with audience demand in the European Parliament Exploring Argumentative Contexts, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 43–58 | Article
The room for strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse depends not only on the dialectical and rhetorical preconditions inherent in strategic maneuvering but also on various kinds of extrinsic preconditions imposed on strategic maneuvering by the institutional macro-context of the… read more
2011 Introduction Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren, Feteris, Eveline T., Bart Garssen and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Introduction
2011 Figurative analogy in political argumentation Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren, Feteris, Eveline T., Bart Garssen and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.), pp. 39–58 | Article
2009 Analysis and evaluation of argumentative discourse Discourse, of Course: An overview of research in discourse studies, Renkema, Jan (ed.), pp. 171–184 | Article
2008 Controversy and confrontation in argumentative discourse Controversy and Confrontation: Relating controversy analysis with argumentation theory, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
2008 Reasonableness in confrontation: Empirical evidence concerning the assessment of ad hominem fallacies Controversy and Confrontation: Relating controversy analysis with argumentation theory, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 181–195 | Article
2005 22. The conventional validity of the pragma-dialectal freedom rule Argumentation in Practice, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Peter Houtlosser (eds.), pp. 349–365 | Chapter