The Case of Pragma-Dialectics

The pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation aims to provide a sound integration of both dialectics — the study of critical exchanges — and pragmatics — the study of language use in actual communication. Pragma dialectics thus combines a dialectical view of argumentative reasonableness with a pragmatic view of the verbal moves made in argumentative discourse. This paper provides an overview of the current state of the pragma-dialectical approach, insofar as this can be done adequately in a single paper, and provides many pointers to the full range of work in this area.

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