Identifying Argumentation Schemes

Abstract

Argumentation is always a defense of a point of view: (a)Mother:“I don’t think five pounds pocket money is at all necessary; your sister always got two pounds a week.”Daughter:“That was years ago, and Betty, Monica, and all my other girlfriends get five or six pounds.”(b)History teacher:“Funny that you don’t want members of the National front working for the police, you were, after all, against the German Berufsverbote at the time?”English teacher:“Yes, but at the time it wasn’t about people who are fundamentally undemocratic which is certainly the case with the National Front.”(c)Policeman:“Will you put these tables and chairs back where they belong immediately?”Publican:“Why can’t I put tables and chairs outside? Across the street they put everything outside and you don’t pick on them.”Policeman:“Well, Sir, they pay council rates for doing so, and you don’t!”