{"title":"Mediators’ reframing as a constitutive element of a reconciliatory argumentative style","authors":"S. Greco, Chiara Jermini-Martinez Soria","doi":"10.1075/jaic.20019.gre","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.20019.gre","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper shows that reframing of conflict can be considered as a constitutive element of a “reconciliatory argumentative\u0000 style” (van Eemeren, 2019), which is typical of dispute mediators, whose aim is to steer parties\u0000 towards the resolution of their conflict. On the basis of a systematic empirical analysis of mediation cases, we first show that reframing\u0000 encompasses a change of issue, which may or may not be justified by arguments. Then, we show how it is functional to the three aspects of\u0000 mediators’ strategic manoeuvring, being used consistently by mediators in their effort to help parties solve their conflict on the basis of\u0000 reasonable discussion.","PeriodicalId":41908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Argumentation in Context","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47365372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characteristics of a detached argumentative style in public policy analysis","authors":"A. Gâţă","doi":"10.1075/jaic.20023.gat","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.20023.gat","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study is a contribution to the recently introduced notion of argumentative style (van Eemeren 2019) in the framework of the pragma-dialectical approach. It aims at characterizing a detached argumentative style,\u0000 by focusing on a speech event pertaining to the communicative activity type organizational discourse, a report on EU environment and climate\u0000 change policies. The analysis concerns the executive summary and the key findings of the report, reconstructed in the analysis as the\u0000 concluding stage of the critical discussion corresponding to the pragma-dialectical model. The notion of text type (Adam 1992) used in the analysis has allowed a more fine-grained characterization of the detached argumentative style,\u0000 especially since the communicative practice under analysis displays a specific discourse format and structure for reasons of\u0000 conventionalization and institutionalization. In such circumstances, determined by the type of conventionalization imposed by the context,\u0000 the adoption of a detached argumentative style appears to be a pre-requisite. In the concluding stage of a critical discussion the\u0000 difference of opinion is not restated, while the most significant standpoints are synthetically (re)presented by an adequate balance of\u0000 narrative, descriptive and metadiscursive text strategies meant to support the objectivity, the conciseness of the presentation and also\u0000 ensuring the necessary density of information required in a report summary or the presentation of key findings, respectively. While explicit\u0000 negative evaluations or formulations of standpoints are avoided, the recommendations are presented as open to adoption or reconsideration by\u0000 policymakers.","PeriodicalId":41908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Argumentation in Context","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47051183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Six related essays on argumentative style","authors":"F. H. Eemeren","doi":"10.1075/jaic.20021.eem","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.20021.eem","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This introduction to the special issue devoted to argumentative style describes the way in which this collection of six\u0000 papers came about. It recapitulates the main thrust of the issues that are included. All authors share the pragma-dialectical perspective on\u0000 argumentative style set forth in the first contribution, in which argumentative style is connected with strategic manoeuvring. In analysing\u0000 argumentative styles, they concentrate on different kinds of argumentative discourses and have a different emphasis in carrying out their\u0000 analyses.","PeriodicalId":41908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Argumentation in Context","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41335349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The uncompromising confrontational argumentative style of the spokespersons’ replies at the regular press conferences of\u0000 China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs","authors":"Wu Peng","doi":"10.1075/jaic.20026.pen","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.20026.pen","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 According to van Eemeren’s expose about the theoretical notion “argumentative style” (2019: 153–171), each of the four stages of an argumentative exchange in a certain institutional context can have its own\u0000 argumentative style, but all of them may well belong to the same general category (for instance, “detached” or “engaged”). As the start of a\u0000 broad project investigating argumentative styles used in the spokespersons’ argumentative replies at the regular press conferences of\u0000 China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this paper focuses on the uncompromising confrontational style prototypically used by the spokespersons\u0000 in responding to journalists, which is characterized by argumentative moves instrumental in strategies of silencing the other party,\u0000 distracting the other party, and pressuring the other party. By means of an analysis of three argumentative replies given by Chinese\u0000 spokespersons, this paper shows how this particular confrontational style takes shape and facilitates the spokespersons’ confrontational\u0000 maneuvering by being at the same time detached.","PeriodicalId":41908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Argumentation in Context","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47701138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}