In dealing with the different ways in which argumentative styles manifest themselves various communicative practices from several domains, van Eemeren and Garssen start a definition of style that is connected pragma-dialectical notion strategic maneuvering. Depending on moves are made, dialectical routes followed, considerations brought to bear, they make general distinction between detached en...

I challenge two key assumptions of speech act theory, as applied to argumentation: illocutionary monism, grounded in the idea each utterance has only one (primary) force, and dyadic reduction, which models interaction a affair between agents (speaker-hearer, proponentopponent). show how major contributions inspired study argumentation adhere these even pluralism argumentative polylogues is sign...

Many analysis and modeling problems done today for information technology applications lead to the solution of system problems. In the development of these solutions, reasoning is a major component. The reasoning component which is normally neglected can be captured in Rationale Models. Rationale Models represent the reasoning that lead to the system solution. This reasoning is defined as Desig...

This paper focuses on argumentative diagrams for computer-supported collaborative argumentation-based learning. Thirty pairs of students discussed two cases on the topic of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) via the computer. They communicated via chat. Pairs of students were either asked to collaboratively construct a diagram using argumentative labels to describe the boxes in the diagram, ...