Speech act conditions as tools for reconstructing argumentative discourse |
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Authors: | Frans H van Eemeren Rob Grootendorst |
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Institution: | (1) Instituut voor Neerlandistiek, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | According to the pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation, for analysing argumentative discourse, a normative reconstruction is required which encompasses four kinds of transformations. It is explained in this paper how speech act conditions can play a part in carrying out such a reconstruction. It is argued that integrating Searlean insights concerning speech acts with Gricean insights concerning conversational maxims can provide us with the necessary tools. For this, the standard theory of speech acts has to be amended in several respects and the conversational maxims have to be translated into speech act conditions. Making use of the rules for communication thus arrived at, and starting from the distribution of speech acts in a critical discussion as specified in the pragma-dialectical model, it is then demonstrated how indirect speech acts are to be transformed when reconstructing argumentative discourse. |
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Keywords: | argumentation argumentative discourse conversational maxims critical discussion indirect speech act normative reconstruction pragma-dialectical rules for communication speech act conditions |
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