Advances in Pragma-Dialectics

Abstract

Subject: Argumentation and communication studies. A collection of essays by an international group of argumentation scholars who treat argumentation praguatically as a form of cummunication directed at resolving a difference of opinion dialectically. Compared with its predecessor, Studies in Pragma-Dialectics. Advances in Pragma-Dialectics shows a growing interest among pragma-dialecticians in finding analytic tools for bridging the gap between their philosophically-motivated theory the gap between their philosophically-motivated theory and the ways in which argumentation manifests itself empirically in the various kinds of argumentative practice