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Giving Reasons

Part of the Argumentation Library Book Series (volume 20)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1761-9

ISBN: 978-94-007-1760-2

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jun 30, 2011

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Chapter 1Argumentation and Its Study

Bermejo-Luque, Lilian

Pages: 1 –15

[This chapter has two sections: the first one is devoted to a characterization of argumentation as an everyday activity, inextricably linked to the specifics of linguistic communication. In addition, it is meant to show in which ways the activity of arguing is particularly akin to humans as...
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Chapter 2Why Do We Need a New Theory of Argumentation?

Bermejo-Luque, Lilian

Pages: 17 –51

[This chapter is devoted to some meta-theoretical questions aimed to show why do we need a new theory of argumentation.]
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Chapter 3Acts of Arguing

Bermejo-Luque, Lilian

Pages: 53 –80

[Following Chapter 2’s thesis that the only way to overcome the justification problem of Argumentation Theory’s normative models is to deal with the concept of argumentative value as the constitutive goal of the activity of arguing, I propose a characterization of argumentation as a communicative...
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Chapter 4The Logical Dimension of Argumentation

Bermejo-Luque, Lilian

Pages: 81 –116

[Given my defense, in Chapter 2, of the idea that the regulative conditions for argumentation have to be specified in terms of its constitutive conditions, it follows that, if argumentation is a complex of logical, dialectical and rhetorical properties, as contended in Chapter 3, then good...
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Chapter 5The Dialectical Dimension of Argumentation

Bermejo-Luque, Lilian

Pages: 117 –137

[As explained in Chapter 4 regarding the logical normativity of argumentation, in dealing with the dialectical dimension of argumentation, I will also have to fulfill two tasks: on the one hand, showing that any type of argumentation, whether dialogical or monological, involves such a dialectical...
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Chapter 6The Rhetorical Dimension of Argumentation

Bermejo-Luque, Lilian

Pages: 139 –164

[This chapter deals with the rhetorical dimension of argumentation and the role that Rhetoric is to play for developing normative models shaping the concept of argumentative value.]
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Chapter 7Argumentation Appraisal

Bermejo-Luque, Lilian

Pages: 165 –200

[In this final chapter, I summarize the guidelines for the normative model of argumentation that follow from our linguistic approach to Argumentation Theory. Consequently, I deal with the logical, dialectical and rhetorical conditions that determine whether an act of arguing succeeds at its...

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