Argumentation across Communities of Practice Multi-disciplinary perspectives
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This engaging book, I am convinced, will fill a significant need in connecting close study of actual argumentative practice with theoretical reflection representing multiple approaches rather than a preconceived doctrine. An essential read to be warmly welcomed.
- Christian Kock, University of Copenhagen, Denmark,
This fresh and compelling volume makes a significant contribution to our understanding of argumentation in real-life discourse environments. Ilie and Garzone have brought together authors from a range of disciplines to address how argumentation is manifested and practiced in diverse legal, political, social and other contexts. The critical investigations not only offer new and valuable insights on field-specific argumentation strategies by combining updated analytical tools with interdisciplinary theoretical approaches, but also provide in-depth scrutiny of culture-related argumentation contexts. This book is essential reading for all those who research the complex processes by means of which argumentation is conducted in everyday communicative contexts.
- Louise Cummings, Nottingham Trent University, UK,
Given the diversity of approaches and topics shown in the ten chapters of this volume, it seems clear that Tseronis and Forceville have successfully exhibited the wide range of topics and approaches that can be distinguished in the study of multimodal argumentation and rhetoric. The collection confirms that the combination of multimodal argumentation and rhetoric constitutes a promising topic of research, which deserves in our view more attention. The collection also makes clear that the development of this field will unavoidably be full of doubts and controversies.
- Lue Huang, Zhejiang University and Chuanrui Zhang, Zhejiang Gongshang University, on Springer Nature B.V 2019,
This book illustrates how far the study of argumentation has come from its old textbook tradition of perfect syllogisms and awful fallacies. Instead, argumentation is taken as a situated, natural activity. At their most theoretical, writers consider the possibility of arguments that lack controversy or that take a visual form. At their most practical, contributors study the institutional and informal constraints on arguing that takes place in politics, police interviews, pharmaceutical companies’ public positions, families, and international diplomacy. The scope and depth of these treatments recommend them to readers interested in argumentation, rhetoric, and the possibility of reasonable dialogue.
- Dale Hample, University of Maryland, USA,
The new move forward is to apply argumentation theories to real examples of arguments, such as those found in a variety of sociocultural and political contexts. This book does just that.
- Douglas Walton, University of Windsor, Canada,
Starting from the premise that argumentation in practice is both dialogic in nature and always contextualized, Argumentation across Communities of Practice draws together an impressive array of theoretical explorations and detailed case studies to create a representative framework for understanding how dialogic argumentative processes work in real-life settings. This focus addresses an under-researched area in argumentation studies; as such, this volume is indispensable reading for critically minded students of argumentation, language and communication studies.
- David Cratis Williams, Florida Atlantic University, USA,