The Dynamics of Argumentative Discourse

Arguments have always played a central role within logic and philosophy. But little attention has been paid to arguments as distinctive kind of discourse, with its own semantics pragmatics. The goal this essay is study the mechanisms by means which we make in starting from argument connectives such ‘therefore’. While some proposals made literature, they fail account for anaphoric behavior ‘therefore’, well uses complex arguments, suppositional non-declarative conclusions, parenthetical remarks. We argue that comprehensive requires imposing tree-like structure on contexts. show how extend our accommodate modal subordination different flavors connectives.