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Why is it that people are often inclined to accept irrational arguments or to reject rational ones? It is, the author argues, because discussions in everyday life are both dialectical - conducted with the best possible solution in mind - and rhetorical - organized by the interactors in the form of a discursive event. By combining argumentation theoretical and discourse analytical insights and revisiting ancient and medieval rhetoric and dialectics, this study transcends the assumption of a symmetrical communicative situation in which only «good» arguments matter. It redefines dialectical concepts, e.g., acceptability or conclusiveness, from a rhetorical and dialogic perspective and is thereby able to address colloquial speech arguing as the inherently asymmetrical discursive event it is.

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• Full title: Arguing and Communicative Asymmetry
• Subtitle: The Analysis of the Interactive Process of Arguing in Non-Ideal Situations
• Author: Marco Ruehl
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9783631397664
• ISBN: 9783631397664
• ID: 10018971
• Publisher: Peter Lang AG
• Weight: 448 g
• Dimensions: 151 × 277 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. September 2002

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