Peng Wu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Peng Wu 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
Responding to Questions at Press Conferences: Confrontational maneuvering by Chinese spokespersons
Peng Wu
Responding to Questions at Press Conferences makes clear how the spokespersons at China’s diplomatic press conferences maneuver strategically in defining the issues in the empirical counterpart of the confrontation stage when responding to the journalists’ questions and how this confrontational… read more[Argumentation in Context, 21] 2023. xiv, 188 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.
Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peng Wu
Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics contains a selection of 18 article reporting on research conducted in the past decade in which the institutional context in which argumentative discourse takes place is systematically taken into account. Some articles provide relevant theoretical backgrounds, other… read more[Argumentation in Context, 12] 2017. ix, 367 pp.
Argumentative Discourse in Contemporary China: A pragma-dialectical perspective
Edited by Peng Wu and Xu Cihua
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 6:3 (2017) vi, 126 pp.
2021 The uncompromising confrontational argumentative style of the spokespersons’ replies at the regular press conferences of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Argumentative Style, Eemeren, Frans H. van (ed.), pp. 26–45 | Article
According to van Eemeren’s expose about the theoretical notion “argumentative style” (2019: 153–171), each of the four stages of an argumentative exchange in a certain institutional context can have its own argumentative style, but all of them may well belong to the same general category (for… read more
2019 Chapter 4. Dissociation as strategic maneuvering in spokespersons’ argumentative replies at Chinese diplomatic press conferences Argumentation in Actual Practice: Topical studies about argumentative discourse in context, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 61–84 | Chapter
2017 Chapter 1. Introduction Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Peng Wu (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter
2017 Chapter 13. Strategic maneuvering by personal attacks at press conferences of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Peng Wu (eds.), pp. 225–254 | Chapter
2017 Strategic maneuvering by personal attacks in spokespersons’ argumentative replies at diplomatic press conferences: A pragma-dialectical study of the press conferences of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Argumentative Discourse in Contemporary China: A pragma-dialectical perspective, Wu, Peng and Xu Cihua (eds.), pp. 285–314 | Article
Within the framework of Pragma-Dialectics, this article analyzes personal attacks in the spokespersons’ replies at the press conferences held by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 2012 and 2015. The research results show that, to cut down the credibility of their opponents in… read more
2017 Argumentative discourse in contemporary China: A pragma-dialectical perspective Argumentative Discourse in Contemporary China: A pragma-dialectical perspective, Wu, Peng and Xu Cihua (eds.), pp. 277–284 | Introduction