Commitment Attribution and the Reconstruction of Arguments

Oswald, Steve

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Commitment Attribution and the Reconstruction of Arguments

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Oswald, Steve ORCID University of Fribourg

2016

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The Psychology of Argument. Cognitive Approaches to Argumentation and Persuasion / de Paglieri, Fabio ; Bonelli, Laura ; Felletti, Silvia. - College Publication. - 2016, p. 17-32

English The notion of commitment has been shown to be pivotal in the study of argumentation (see e.g. Hamblin 1970, Walton & Krabbe 1995), in particular as far as argumentative reconstruction is concerned. In this chapter I will consider how the notion of commitment attribution, as developed in cognitive pragmatic research (Morency et al. 2008, Saussure & Oswald, 2008, 2009), can contribute clear criteria to be used in an analytical task argumentation theorists regularly have to undertake, namely the identification of missing or unexpressed premises.

Faculty

Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines

Department

Département d'anglais

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