Speech act theory and the study of argumentation

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Publication date 2014
Journal Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
Volume | Issue number 36 | 49
Pages (from-to) 41-58
Number of pages 18
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract In this paper, the influence of speech act theory and Grice’s theory of conversational implicature on the study of argumentation is discussed. First, the role that pragmatic insights play in van Eemeren and Grootendorst’s pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation and Jackson and Jacobs’ conversational approach to argumentation is described. Next, a number of examples of recent work by argumentation scholars is presented in which insights from speech act theory play a prominent role.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2014-0002
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