1 option
Argumentation in complex communication : managing disagreement in a polylogue / Marcin Lewiński, Mark Aakhus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewinski, Marcin, author.
- Aakhus, Mark A., 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Persuasion (Rhetoric)--Social aspects.
- Persuasion (Rhetoric).
- Debates and debating--Social aspects.
- Debates and debating.
- Reasoning--Social aspects.
- Reasoning.
- Conversation analysis.
- Interpersonal communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- A pervasive aspect of human communication and sociality is argumentation: the practice of making and criticizing reasons in the context of doubt and disagreement. Argumentation underpins and shapes the decision-making, problem-solving, and conflict management which are fundamental to human relationships. However, argumentation is predominantly conceptualized as two parties arguing pro and con positions with each other in one place. This dyadic bias undermines the capacity to engage argumentation in complex communication in contemporary, digital society. This book offers an ambitious alternative course of inquiry for the analysis, evaluation, and design of argumentation as polylogue: various players arguing over many positions across multiple places. Taking up key aspects of the twentieth-century revival of argumentation as a communicative, situated practice, the polylogue framework engages a wider range of discourses, messages, interactions, technologies, and institutions necessary for adequately engaging the contemporary entanglement of argumentation and complex communication in human activities.
- Contents:
- Seeking polylogue
- The dyadic reduction
- Seeing polylogue
- Embracing polylogue
- Descriptive analysis of polylogues
- Normative evaluation of polylogues
- Prescriptive design of polylogues.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781009274364 (ebook)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.