Qualitative Research Methods in Argumentation Studies

Corina Andone is an Assistant Professor of Language and Communication and a Senior Researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for Language and Communication (ACLC), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Marianne Doury is a Professor in the Language Sciences Department at Paris Cité University, France.Sara Greco is a Professor of Argumentation and Director of the Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics (IALS) at USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland.Kati Hannken-Illjes is a Professor for Speech Communication at The Philipps University of Marburg, Germany.Menno H. Reijven is an Assistant Professor of Argumentation and Communication at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

“This collective volume is a highly recommendable contribution to the qualitative study of argumentation. It thoroughly explores theoretical and methodological problems of qualitative argumentation research. To these problems, this innovative book delivers promising answers. Of course, the respective strengths of qualitative and quantitative methods can also be combined, as some contributions to the volume plausibly show.”Manfred Kienpointner, University of Innsbruck, Austria“Wisely distancing themselves from a dichotomous qualitative/quantitative divide, the authors explore how these two methods can be combined in argumentation research on concrete issues, from reconstructing arguments to ethical issues, from norms, to persuasion, to visual argument and guidelines for data collection.”Christian Plantin, Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

• 1. Descriptive and Analytical Qualitative Research of Argumentative Discourse 2. Theoretical Concepts and Argumentative Practice 3. Grappling with the Descriptive and Normative Dimension of Argumentation 4. Developing Corpora through Data-Mining for Qualitative Argumentation Research 5. A Cognitive Framework for the Analysis of Argumentation 6. Studying Argumentation as Social Interaction 7. Approaching Social Media Argumentation from a Linguistics-Informed Perspective: Methodological Aspects 8. Analyzing the Linguistic Dimension of Argumentative Texts 9. Analysing Multimodal Argumentation: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations 10. Considering Argumentation in Context 11. Political Discourse and Argumentation: Qualitative Approaches 12. The Ethics of Qualitative Research in Argumentation