Overview: Provides Argumentation Theory with a new, linguistic approach.Integrates argumentation’s logical, dialectical and rhetorical dimensions.Solves challenging meta-theoretical questions, e.g. the justificThis book provides a new, linguistic approach to Argumentation Theory. Its main goal is to integrate the logical, dialectical and rhetorical dimensions of argumentation in a model providing a unitary treatment of its justificatory and persuasive powers. This model takes as its basis Speech Acts Theory in order to characterize argumentation as a second-order speech act complex. The result
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