Speech Act Theory and the Study of Argumentation

• Authors: A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

:In this paper, the influence of speech act theory and Grice’s the- ory of conversational implicature on the study of argumentation is discussed. First, the role that pragmatic insights play in van Eemeren and Grootendorst’s pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation and Jackson and Jacobs’ conver- sational approach to argumentation is described. Next, a number of examples of recent work by argumentation scholars is presented in which insights from speech act theory play a prominent role.

Keywords

EN

adjacency pair; conversational argument; conversational implica- ture; felicity condition; pragma-dialectical; maxim; Principle of Communication; speech act; strategic manoeuvre

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 36
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 41-58

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-04-12

Contributors

author

A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans

• University of Amsterdam

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/slgr-2014-0002