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Comments on ''Arguing 'for' the patient: Informed consent and strategic maneuvering in doctor-patient interaction"
Comments on ''Arguing 'for' the patient: Informed consent and strategic maneuvering in doctor-patient interaction"
'In varietate concordia' - United in diversity: European parliamentary debate as an argumentative activity type
Strategic maneuvering in political argumentation: the plenary debate in the European Parliament as an argumentative activity type
The Pragma-Dialectical Approach to the Fallacies Revisited
This article explains the design and development of the pragma-dialectical approach to fallacies. In this approach fallacies are viewed as violations of the standards for critical discussion that are expressed in a code of conduct for reasonable argumentative discourse. After the problem-solving validity in resolving differences of opinion of the rules of this code has been discussed, their conventional validity for real-life arguers is demonstrated. Starting from the extended version of the theory in which the strategic maneuvering taking place in argumentative discourse is included, the article explains that the violations of the rules that are committed in the fallacies involve derailments of strategic maneuvering. This culminates in a discussion of the exploitation of hidden fallaciousness as an unreasonable way of increasing the effectiveness of argumentative discourse – a vital topic of research in present-day pragma-dialectics
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