The use of antithesis and other contrastive relations in argumentation

This paper presents a study of use the rhetorical figure antithesis and other contrastive relations in several modern-day environmental science policy journal articles on issues food security, climate change, water resource management. The present conflicting perspectives environmentalists engineers, i.e., view that nature should be preserved protected versus it engineered to solve human problems. main contribution this is taxonomy characterizing argumentative uses these based our semantic/pragmatic interpretation text including, some cases, discourse coherence relations. number examples breadth indicative key role argumentation genre. investigation necessary step towards comprehensive computational approaches detecting identifying their roles.