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A Theory of Argumentation Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
author
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Willard, Charles Arthur.
publisher
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University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin
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0817304274
print isbn13
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9780817304270
ebook isbn13
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9780585208619
language
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English
subject
Reasoning.
publication date
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1989
lcc
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BC177.W544 1989eb
ddc
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168
subject
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Reasoning.
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A Theory of Argumentation
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STUDIES IN RHETORIC AND COMMUNICATION General Editors E. Culpepper Clark Raymie E. McKerrow David Zarefsky
"Hear O Israel": The History of American Jewish Preaching, 1654-1970 Robert V. Friedenberg
A Theory of Argumentation Charles Arthur Willard
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A Theory of Argumentation
Charles Arthur Willard
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Copyright 1989 by The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Willard, Charles Arthur. A theory of argumentation / Charles Arthur Willard. p. cm. (Studies in rhetoric and communication) Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-8173-0427-4 1. Reasoning. I. Title. II. Series. BC177.W544 1989 168dc19 88-27742 CIP
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available
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To My Parents Herbert C. Willard and Christine S. Willard
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CONTENTS
Preface
ix
General Introduction: Argument and Opposition
1
I. Argument as a Form of Communication
Introduction
11
1. Constructivism and Interactionism
14
2. Argument as Interaction
42
3. Argument as Emergent Action
67
4. Argument as Utterance
91
5. Argument as Epistemic
112
6. Argument as Personal Influence
131
II. Argument's Family of Terms
Introduction
143
7. Three Senses of Rationality
152
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8. Freedom
176
III. Argumentation as a Discipline
Introduction
205
9. Disciplined Discourse
209
10. Fallacy Theory
220
11. Argumentation's Sphere of Relevance
239
12. Positions
257
Bibliography
275
Index
309
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PREFACE
This book attempts to make good on two promises implicit in Argumentation and the Social Grounds of Knowledge (Willard, 1983, hereafter ASGK) These debts arose with ASGK's strategy of linking knowledge to argument assuming the viability of the interactional view of argument and with ASGK's claim that argument must not be isolated from the empirical facts of communication and persuasion. Both moves asked the reader provisionally to grant that arguments are social processes central to the creation, maintenance, and use of knowledge and that a communication theory is the optimum context for a theory of argument. Thus capitalized by the reader's indulgence, ASGK was a heavily mortgaged venture.
To redeem these debts I will draw once again on the reader's indulgence. The viability of the argument field as a unit of analysis is presumed here but not explicitly defended. And though I have elsewhere defended the idea that opposition should be valued as an end in itself (Willard, 1987a), the exposition in these pages is so dependent on the presumed value of opposition that a full-blown defense buttressed by case studies is needed. So this book should be seen as a stage in an exposition stretching over three subsequent works. "The Balkanization of Knowledge and the Problem of the Public Sphere" (Willard, 1988) defends the argument field as a unit of analysis and as a way of defining the problem of the public sphere. The central claim is that organizational structure disprefers conflict. Thus "Valuing Dissensus" (Willard and Hynes, 1988) combats the
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