<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>:<bold></bold>In this paper, the influence of speech act theory and Grice’s the- ory 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’ conver- sational 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.</p></abstract>

:In this paper, the influence of speech act theory and Grice’s the- ory 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’ conver- sational 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.

Speech Act Theory and the Study of Argumentation

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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Speech Act Theory and the Study of Argumentation

Publicado en línea: 12 abr 2014

Páginas: 41 - 58

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2014-0002

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