Exploiting the room for strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse: dealing with audience demand in the European Parliament

Authors
Publication date 2012
Host editors
  • F.H. van Eemeren
  • B. Garssen
Book title Exploring argumentative contexts
ISBN
  • 9789027211217
Series Argumentation in context, 4
Pages (from-to) 43-58
Publisher Amsterdam: Benjamins
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract The room for strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse depends not only on the dialectical and rhetorical preconditions inherent in strategic maneuvering but also on various kinds of extrinsic preconditions imposed on strategic maneuvering by the institutional macro-context of the communicative activity type in which the maneuvering takes place. Van Eemeren and Garssen use the communicative activity type of plenary debate in the European Parliament as their case in point for illustrating the problems involved.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.4.03van
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