Argumentation in the language-system or why argumentative particles and polyphony are important for education (original) (raw)

The Theory of Argumentation Within Language and its Application to Discourse Analysis (2014)

Inés Olza, Óscar Loureda & Manuel Casado-Velarde (eds.), Language Use in Public Sphere, Berna, Peter Lang, pp. 201-224, 2014

The Theory of Argumentation Within Language (TAL) is a semantic theory that was initiated during the mid-1970s by Oswald Ducrot, Jean-Claude Anscombre, and their followers-for the most part Romance Language scholars. Among other topics, this theory considers how the meaning of words conditions the dynamics of discourse, and, as will be shown in this article using linguistic criteria, also enables the demonstration of how some connotations of a text are produced. To achieve this, the TAL has developed easily comprehensible theoretical devices-such as that of argumentative orientation-and equally simple proofs-the use of but, for example-that demonstrate the importance of lexical selection in communication. They show, in other words, how a single fact can be understood in different ways according to the linguistic formulation chosen to communicate it. This article will provide numerous examples of this explicative ability of the TAL and will conclude with persuasive linguistic arguments that support certain proposals made by the defenders of "person first" language-often orthophemisms-as compared to the dysphemisms they are meant to replace.

Argumentation in language teaching

Revista Folios, 2017

El documento discute la importancia de la argumentación y el pensamiento crítico en la educación yreflexiona acerca de los componentes del currículo de lenguas extranjeras que podrían contribuir a formarhablantes competentes capaces de interactuar críticamente en la sociedad.La autora propone una metodología para la enseñanza de las lenguas que desarrolle la competencia comunicativamediante el análisis del discurso de diferentes fuentes (medios de comunicación, principalmente) en la cualaspectos tales como la coherencia, la cohesión y el uso de códigos elaborados tienen gran importancia. Sepresenta un proyecto de aula desarrollado en la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional con estudiantes del Departamentode Lenguas.

Language and argument: a review of the field

Research in Language

This paper has a dual purpose: it both seeks to introduce the other works in this issue by illustrating how they are related to the field of argumentation as a whole, and to make clear the tremendous range of research currently being carried out by argumentation theorists which is concerned with the interaction and inter-reliance of language and argument. After a brief introduction to the development of the field of argumentation, as many as eight language-based approaches to the study of argument are identified, taking as their perspective: rhetoric, argument structure, argument as act, discourse analysis, corpus methods, emotive argument, and narrative argument. The conclusion makes it clear that these branches of study are all themselves interconnected and that it is the fusion of methodologies and theory from linguistics and the philosophical study of argument which lends this area of research its dynamism.

Role of Argumentation in Discourse

2019

The present paper offers a survey of prevailing lines of research on linguistic argumentation, which is a fundamental part of a logical communication structure of any sense bearing text. The paper explores the character and structure of linguistic argumentation with regards to communication and pragmatic aspects. It also substantiates a broad understanding of argumentation as an indispensable element for the universal communication process, which lies behind any piece of information to be transferred further on in the context of the discourse activity. Unlike most scholars who, while interpreting argumentation, focus on the logical (evidentiary) aspect of this phenomenon, the authors of the paper consider and prove argumentation to be a pragmatic framework to build any extended language construct characterized by relatively accomplished meaningfulness, i.e. conveying a certain informative value. Ranged and classified views on the nature of argumentation make it possible to draw a li...

Speaking, Inferring, Arguing. On the Argumentative Character of SPEECH1

S U M M A R Y : Within the Gricean framework in pragmatics, communication is understood as an inferential activity. Other approaches to the study of linguistic communication have contended that language is argumentative in some essential sense. My aim is to study the question of whether and how the practices of inferring and arguing can be taken to contribute to meaning in linguistic communication. I shall suggest a two-fold hypothesis. First, what makes of communication an inferential activity is given with its calculability, i.e. with the possibility to rationally recover the assigned meaning by means of an explicit inference. Secondly, the normative positions that we recognize and assign each other with our speech acts comprise obligations and rights of a dialectical character; but this fact does not entail nor presuppose an argumentative nature in language or speech. Both inferring and arguing are needed, however, in the activity of justifying and assessing our speech acts.

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Argumentation

Linguistics meets philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2022

This chapter overviews recent work on the semantics and pragmatics of argumentative discourse, with particular attention to work on the se- mantics of argument connectives such as `therefore' in discourse coherence theory and in dynamic semantics as well as on modal analyses of `there- fore'.. In the nal section, I overview some issues that arise on the pragmatics of arguments, such as how we are to characterize the distinctive utterance force of arguments versus explanations.

Argumentation as a discourse practice (Didactic and Linguistic concepts)

enadakultura, 2021

Argumentative competence, written or oral argumantation skills are essential in the process of academic non-academic communication. Raising this competence is of particular importance in the education process, which ultimately focuses on promoting the development of general, intercultural communication and stratehic learning skills.The competence to create an argumentative text is complex and includes different dimensions, which means the selection, construction, grouping of arguments, the proper conduct of argumentative reasoning. The systematization of the various concepts and respectives contained in it allows the arguments to be divided into two groups: speaker-oriented and interaction-oriented.Argumentative discussions and organized discussions processes generate discourse that is equated with the notion of community. Argumentation from the perspective of discourse analysis is a discource practice, which is realized in a specific context (contextualized), arises interactively, ...

Argumentation and discourse / Argumentação e discurso

2014

After demonstrating that studies of argumentation, which spread throughout modern linguistics from Ducrot and Anscombre‘s pragmatics, do not align with discourse studies because, for these authors, argumentation is a fact of langue and not a discursive fact, this text 1 aims to show how discursive theories can work with the issue of argumentation. They cannot be restricted to linguistic microanalysis as adopted by integrated pragmatics, although eventually they can make use of it. They should revisit the classical tradition. If, on the one hand, the rhetoric studied the discursive construction of arguments and on the other studied the antiphonic dimension of discourses, the discursive theories should inherit from the rhetoric work; that is, they should read it in the light of the theoretical issues expressed today. To inherit from rhetoric work means, therefore, taking into account centuries of previous studies, to describe according to current discursive studies the discursive mech...