This paper investigates whether, and if so, in what way, argumentation can be profitably described speech-act theoretical terms. I suggest that the two theories of are supposed to provide most elaborate analysis it terms (namely van Eemeren Rob Grootendorst’s Pragma-Dialectics Lilian Bermejo-Luque’s linguistic normative model argumentation) both suffer from same flaws: firstly, their “illocutio...
