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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967171903321

Autore

Schlesinger I. M

Titolo

The structure of arguments / / Izchak M. Schlesinger, Tamar Keren-Portnoy, Tamar Parush

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c2001

ISBN

9786612162596

9781282162594

1282162594

9789027298294

9027298297

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xix, 263 p. : ill

Collana

Human cognitive processing, , 1387-6724 ; ; v. 7

Altri autori (Persone)

Keren-PortnoyTamar

ParushTamar

Disciplina

168

Soggetti

Persuasion (Rhetoric)

Reasoning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-245) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

The Structure of Arguments -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Reasoning and arguing -- Chapter 2 Arguments as operations -- Chapter 3 Operators,targets,outcomes -- Chapter 4 Compounds -- Chapter 5 Justi W cations -- Chapter 6 Con X ations -- Chapter 7 Questions -- Chapter 8 Connections -- Chapter 9 Relations within and between arguments -- Chapter 10 Expressed arguments -- Notes -- References -- Appendices -- Author index -- Subject index -- List of symbols.

Sommario/riassunto

An important tool for scientific study in any field is a formal language in which the phenomena can be described and hypotheses formulated. In this book a formal notation is developed for the description of the cognitive structure of arguments. The analyses based on this notation are more fine-grained than the analyses in previous attempts, and they are applicable not only to arguments but to all types of moves in a discourse. Further, the notational system provides a basis for the description of relations between arguments and the structure of the



discourse as a whole. In the final chapter, some empirical studies of retention of arguments in memory and of précis writing are reported, based on hypotheses formulated in terms of the notational system.