Argumentation and Language — Linguistic, Cognitive and Discursive Explorations

1. Introduction
Steve Oswald, Thierry Herman, Jérôme Jacquin

Part I. Linguistic Resources of Argumentation

2. A Linguistic Revision of Toulmin’s Layout of Arguments
Thierry Herman

3. Style and Grammar in Political Discourse: Complementation and Its Argumentative-Rhetorical Potential
Maarten Leeuwen

4. Evidential and Argumentative Functions of Dynamic Appearance Verbs in Italian: The Example of Rivelare and Emergere

Johanna Miecznikowski

5. Tracing the Roots of Defeasible Reasoning Through Argumentative Indicators: A Study of the Italian Verb Sembra in Opinion Articles
Elena Musi

6. What Is the Contribution of Connectives to Discourse Meaning? The With or Without Issue (WWI)
Jacques Moeschler

Part II. Argumentative Processes: Cognition and Discourse

7. Argumentation as a Bridge Between Metaphor and Reasoning
Francesca Ervas, Elisabetta Gola, Maria Grazia Rossi

8. The Straw Man Fallacy as a Prestige-Gaining Device
Louis Saussure

9. Types of Dialogue and Pragmatic Ambiguity
Fabrizio Macagno, Sarah Bigi

10. Practical Argumentation in the Making: Discursive Construction of Reasons for Action
Marcin Lewiński

11. Exercising Accountability in European Parliamentary Debates on Statements: An Argumentative Perspective
Dima Mohammed

12. Collaborative Decision-Making in Argumentative Group Discussions Among Primary School Children
Vera Mundwiler, Judith Kreuz

Keywords: Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics