Evaluating the language of argument / Martin Hinton.
Hinton, Martin, author.
2021
P101
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Title Evaluating the language of argument / Martin Hinton.
Author Hinton, Martin, author.
ISBN 3030616940 (electronic book)
9783030616946 (electronic bk.)
3030616932
9783030616939
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61694-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-61694-6 doi
Call Number P101
Dewey Decimal Classification 149.94
410.1
Summary This book is concerned with the evaluation of natural argumentative discourse, and, in particular, with the language in which arguments are expressed. It introduces a systematic procedure for the analysis and assessment of arguments, which is designed to be a practical tool, and may be considered a pseudo-algorithm for argument evaluation. The first half of the book lays the theoretical groundwork, with a thorough examination of both the nature of language and the nature of argument. This leads to a definition of argumentation as reasoning expressed within a procedure, which itself yields the three frames of analysis used in the evaluation procedure: Process, Reasoning, and Expression. The second half begins with a detailed discussion of the concept of fallacy, with particular attention on fallacies of language, their origin and their effects. A new way of looking at fallacies emerges from these chapters, and it is that conception, together with the understanding of the nature of argumentation described in earlier sections, which ultimately provides the support for the Comprehensive Assessment Procedure for Natural Argumentation. The first two levels of this innovative procedure are outlined, while the third, that dealing with language, and involving the development of an Informal Argument Semantics, is fully described. The use of the system, and its power of analysis, are illustrated through the evaluation of a variety of examples of argumentative texts.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 15, 2021).
Series Argumentation library ; v. 37. 1566-7650
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Introduction
Part I: Language
Chapter 1. Language and Thought
Chapter 2. The Meaning of Meaning
Chapter 3. Language as Argument
Part II: Argument
Chapter 4. What Argument Is
Chapter 5. The Modes of Argumentation
Chapter 6. Linguistics and Argument
Part III: Error
Chapter 7. Fallacies
Chapter 8. Fallacies of Language
Chapter 9. Linguistic Fallacies in Philosophy
Part IV: Analysis
Chapter 10. Analysis of Arguments
Chapter 11. Application of the Scheme
Chapter 12. Conclusion
References.

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