Rob Grootendorst: 2 books
Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory
A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Argumentation theory is a distinctly multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It draws its data, assumptions, and methods from disciplines as disparate as formal logic and discourse analysis, linguistics and forensic science, philosophy and psychology, political science and education, sociology and law,...
Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies
A Pragma-dialectical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This volume gives a theoretical account of the problem of analyzing and evaluating argumentative discourse. After placing argumentation in a communicative perspective, and then discussing the fallacies that occur when certain rules of communication are violated, the authors offer an alternative to...