The skill of identifying argumentation

Authors
Publication date 2015
Host editors
  • F.H. van Eemeren
Book title Reasonableness and Effectiveness in Argumentative Discourse: Fifty Contributions to the Development of Pragma-Dialectics
ISBN
  • 9783319209548
Series Argumentation Library, 27
Pages (from-to) 733-741
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract
This article is a report on empirical research in which two main questions were posed: (1) Can 14-year-old school children in secondary schools recognize argumentation without having received systematic instruction? (2) To what extent is the identification of argumentation an independent skill? The practical relevance of the first question is self-evident. The epistemological relevance of the second question is that it seeks to provide an answer to the question of whether or not the identification of argumentation is based on the traditionally known cognitive intellectual skills "Verbal Comprehension," "Inductive Reasoning," et cetera. Otherwise, it must be a separate skill.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20955-5_39
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