Engineering argumentation in marriage

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-298 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Strategic Maneuvering ◽  
Activity Type ◽  
Management Procedure ◽  
Rational Decisions

Understanding argumentation in marriage as a design enterprise focuses researchers’ efforts in understanding how such arguments can go wrong and helps to identify designs that might help reduce unproductive conflict. Given the importance many marriage experts place on successful conflict management, designing procedures that help couples resolve their differences can potentially reduce the negative personal and societal results of failed marriages. In this paper I analyze the Fair Fight for Change (FFFC) conflict management procedure as a strategic maneuvering activity type. The purpose of this analysis is to examine the adequacy of the procedure itself in helping couples produce rational decisions about marital disagreements balanced by strategic maneuvers aimed to maintain the identity and relationship needs of the participants. Specifically, I recommend a redesign of the FFFC that incorporates a simplified version of the critical discussion rules to help guide couples as they attempt to resolve their differences.

Strategic maneuvering with presentational choices in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-166
Author(s):  
Anca Gâţă
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Strategic Maneuvering ◽  
Activity Type ◽  
Csr Reporting ◽  
Dialectical Theory ◽  
Communicative Activity Type ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Communicative Activity

Abstract In the framework of the extended pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting is approached in this study as a particular communicative activity type, which can be reconstructed as part of a critical discussion. CSR reports excerpts are viewed in the analysis as parts of a virtual critical discussion in which a company acts as a protagonist maneuvering strategically to defend the standpoint according to which the business is operated ethically, and to convince the audience about what is mentioned in the standpoint. The reconstructed standpoint of a CSR report, We are doing business responsibly, may be regarded as stereotypical, since it corresponds to the institutional point of this regulated type of communicative activity. In the first part of the study, a brief overview is given of the CSR reporting activity, then the concept of strategic maneuvering is presented, under its three aspects (topical potential, audience demand, and presentational techniques), as well as the notion of communicative activity type, with a highlight on the role of the (macro-)context and of institutional preconditions in analytical studies on argumentation. The analysis in the latter part of the study concerns presentational techniques used by the protagonist in the confrontation and in the argumentation stages in CSR reporting, in order to reconcile rhetorical and dialectical aims by maneuvering strategically. The coordinatively and the subordinatively compound structure of argumentation, the symptomatic argument scheme, as well as reformulations of the standpoint, use of emotionally endowed words, concentration of the arguments in the form of nominal sentences acting as headings are among the most important presentational devices constitutive of argumentative moves aimed at convincing the audience that the company acts ethically, but also at promoting a positive image of its business responsibility, which appears to be the ground for winning the discussion.

Strategic maneuvering in European Parliamentary Debate

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart Garssen
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Context ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Strategic Maneuvering ◽  
Activity Type ◽  
Dialectical Approach ◽  
Parliamentary Debate ◽  
Activity Types ◽  
Argumentative Activity

This paper focuses on argumentation the institutional context of debate in the European Parliament. A parliamentary debate is a distinct argumentative activity type. In the pragma-dialectical approach, argumentative activity types are defined as conventionalized argumentative practices in which the possibilities for strategic maneuvering are predetermined. What are the characteristics of the activity type of a debate in European Parliament that predetermine the possibilities for strategic maneuvering?

Strategic maneuvering in diplomatic mediation

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Muraru
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Strategic Maneuvering ◽  
Activity Type ◽  
Delicate Balance ◽  
Disagreement Space ◽  
The Way

In diplomatic mediation, dissociation and definitions become tools of the mediator’s strategic maneuvering by means of which the disputants’ disagreement space is minimized, decision-making being thus facilitated. The mediator’s argumentative behavior is explored, investigating the way in which he succeeds in “maintaining a delicate balance” (van Eemeren and Houtlosser 2002) between the dialectical and the rhetorical aims in accordance with the institutional aim specific to mediation as an activity type. In order to argue reasonably and efficiently, the mediator assumes certain roles and adopts and develops a set of strategies in compliance with the goal and constraints of the particular activity type he argues within. Consequently, the mediator builds his argumentation case in full awareness of the specific circumstances, and of the types of constraints of the case, by making a pertinent choice from the topical potential, adjusting it to the particular audience, and exploiting the range of presentational devices accordingly.

Strategic maneuvering by persuasive definition in corporate crisis communication

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Na
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Burden Of Proof ◽  
Strategic Maneuvering ◽  
Activity Type ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Cyber Space ◽  
Argumentative Activity ◽  
Persuasive Definition ◽  
Corporate Crisis

Abstract This paper aims to explore the use of persuasive definition in a corporate weblog by examining how a blogger attempts to define the company’s role in response to criticisms in the cyber space. Making use of a pragma-dialectical research framework, corporate weblog is characterized as an argumentative activity type in the commercial domain in which the legitimacy of persuasive definition is contextually constrained. The paper first analyzes the institutional preconditions that restrict all the argumentative moves in a corporate weblog, and then investigates how the corporate blogger of Taobao, the biggest online shopping website in China, responds to criticism by redefinition to evade the burden of proof.

scholarly journals The Contextuality of Fallacies

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frans H. Van Eemeren ◽  
Peter Houtlosser
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Activity Type ◽  
Speech Event ◽  
Normative Dimension ◽  
Dialogue Types

Van Eemeren and Houtlosser observe that Walton’s (and Walton and Krabbe’s) notion of ‘dialogue type’ involves a mixture of an empirical notion on a par with a speech event or activity type and a normative notion such as the model of a critical discussion. Then they discuss Walton’s contextual analysis of fallacies as illegitimate dialectical shifts of dialogue types and offer an alternative in which both the empirical and the normative dimension are given their due.

Argumentation in Nigerian investigative public hearings

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-218
Author(s):  
Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Public Hearing ◽  
Argumentation Schemes ◽  
Activity Type ◽  
Argumentative Discourse ◽  
Public Hearings ◽  
Communicative Activity Type ◽  
Causal Argumentation ◽  
Communicative Activity

Abstract This paper examines defendants’ argumentative discourse in the 2008 Nigerian investigative public hearings on the Federal Capital Territory administration. The data, which consist of nine defendants’ presentations, are analyzed qualitatively, using a combination of the pragma-dialectical and extended pragma-dialectical theories of argumentation. The findings show that the hearing panel initially starts of as the institutional protagonist and defendants as the antagonists, and but later serve as the institutional antagonist and protagonists, respectively. The defendants tend to use analogy and causal argumentation schemes while employing subordinative and complementary coordinative argumentation structures. The defendants also employ different strategic maneuvers at different argumentative stages of the critical discussion. Due to the politico-forensic communicative domain and information-seeking genre of the investigative public hearing discourse, the concluding stage is suspended. Thus, the study shows the influence of communicative activity type on the argumentative activities in a critical discussion.

Visual argumentation in political advertising

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Magnus R. Dahl
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Advertising ◽  
Strategic Maneuvering ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Activity Type ◽  
Political Advertisements ◽  
Visual Argumentation ◽  
Argumentative Activity

In this paper, political advertisements in Norway are characterized as an argumentative activity type, following the pragma-dialectal theory of argumentation. Drawing on insights from political theory, marketing theory, Norwegian media regulations and empirical research into Norwegian political communication the conventions of the activity type are discussed. It is also explained how these conventions influence the arguer’s strategic maneuvering.

Experiences With and Lessons Learned From Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating a Support Program for Older Hearing Aid Users and Their Communication Partners in the Hearing Aid Dispensing Setting

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3S) ◽  
pp. 638-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janine F. J. Meijerink ◽  
Marieke Pronk ◽  
Sophia E. Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Hearing Aid ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Support Program ◽  
Large Sample Size ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Communication Program ◽  
Communication Partners

Purpose The SUpport PRogram (SUPR) study was carried out in the context of a private academic partnership and is the first study to evaluate the long-term effects of a communication program (SUPR) for older hearing aid users and their communication partners on a large scale in a hearing aid dispensing setting. The purpose of this research note is to reflect on the lessons that we learned during the different development, implementation, and evaluation phases of the SUPR project. Procedure This research note describes the procedures that were followed during the different phases of the SUPR project and provides a critical discussion to describe the strengths and weaknesses of the approach taken. Conclusion This research note might provide researchers and intervention developers with useful insights as to how aural rehabilitation interventions, such as the SUPR, can be developed by incorporating the needs of the different stakeholders, evaluated by using a robust research design (including a large sample size and a longer term follow-up assessment), and implemented widely by collaborating with a private partner (hearing aid dispensing practice chain).

Conflict Management in Kashmir

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management
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