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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schlesinger, I. M.

Contributor:

Keren-Portnoy, Tamar.

Parush, Tamar.

Series:

Human cognitive processing ; v. 7.

Human cognitive processing, 1387-6724 ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persuasion (Rhetoric).

Reasoning.

Physical Description:

xix, 263 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9786612162596

9781282162594

1282162594

9789027298294

9027298297

OCLC:

70740775