- Author
- Year
- 2016
- Title
- Argumentative Patterns in the Political Domain: The Case of European Parliamentary Committees of Inquiry
- Journal
- Argumentation
- Volume | Issue number
- 30 | 1
- Pages (from-to)
- 45-60
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities (FGw)
- Institute
- Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
- Abstract
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In this paper, close attention is paid to the argumentative patterns resulting from combining pragmatic argumentation in which a recommendation is made with arguments in which the majority is invoked. I focus on such argumentative patterns as employed by European parliamentary committees of inquiry conducting inquiries into the activity of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. By
incorporating legal and political insights about the activity of these parliamentary committees of inquiry into a pragma-dialectical argumentative approach, an analysis will be given of the selected argumentative pattern. This analysis will reveal which standpoints are supported by which arguments and how these arguments relate to each other to increase the acceptability of the recommendation made. In addition, the analysis will explain the arguer’s argumentative choices in the pattern employed. - URL
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- Language
- English
- Permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.520590
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