Paul Tucker
List of John Benjamins publications in which Paul Tucker is involved.
Articles
2024 Chapter 8. Argumentation and the “interaction of minds” in text: The case of discourse on art Persuasion in Specialized Discourse: A multidisciplinary perspective, Degano, Chiara, Dora Renna and Francesca Santulli (eds.), pp. 169–188 | Chapter
Whereas current theories stress argumentation’s interactional character and function, this chapter emphasizes its cognitive motivation and textual realization. Text itself will be understood as the record of a course of verbally mediated and interactionally negotiated cognitive explication,… read more
2013 11. Justificatory arguments in writing on art: Toulmin’s model tested on a small corpus of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century exhibition reviews Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from corpus linguistics, Bamford, Julia, Silvia Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani (eds.), pp. 185–202 | Article
In The Uses of Argument (1958) Toulmin illustrated the concepts of field-invariant/dependent argumentation citing, among others, the discourse of art criticism, without specifying in detail how this instantiates the model there presented. This chapter tests the model’s applicability to aesthetic… read more