Reasonableness and Effectiveness in Argumentative Discourse

“The book under review … is the first publication to allow us a glimpse into the workshop of pragma-dialectics in its full glory. … there is no place like this book for academics and practitioners to appreciate the enormous richness of the pragmadialectical research program in all its different phases and facets.” (Fernando Leal, Argumentation, Vol. 30, 2016)

• Argumentation.- The language of argumentation in Dutch.- In what sense do modern argumentation theories relate to Aristotle? The case of pragma-dialectics.- Bingo! Promising developments in argumentation theory.- Argumentation studies’ five estates.- The study of argumentation as normative pragmatics.- From ideal model to situated argumentative discourse: The step-by-step development of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation.- The case of pragma-dialectics.- The pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation in discussion.