Argumentation Mar 2012 Open Access

Effectiveness Through Reasonableness Preliminary Steps to Pragma-Dialectical Effectiveness Research

Frans H. van Eemeren University of Amsterdam ; Bart Garssen University of Amsterdam ; Bert Meuffels University of Amsterdam

Abstract

The introduction of the concept of strategic maneuvering into the pragma-dialectical theory makes it possible to formulate testable hypotheses regarding the persuasiveness of argumentative moves that are made in argumentative discourse. After summarizing the standard pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation, van Eemeren, Garssen, and Meuffels explain what the extension of the pragma-dialectical approach with strategic maneuvering involves and discuss the fallacies in terms of the extended pragma-dialectical approach as derailments of strategic maneuvering. Then they give an empirical interpretation of the extended pragma-dialectical model in which they report the testing of three hypotheses which formulate preliminary conditions for effectiveness research within the framework of the extended pragma-dialectical theory and the results of the tests they consecutively carried out.

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Argumentation
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2012-03-01
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10.1007/s10503-011-9234-7
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