Argumentation in Complex Communication

Managing Disagreement in a Polylogue

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvMarcin Lewiński,Mark Aakhus

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A pervasive aspect of human communication and sociality is argumentation: the practice of making and criticizing reasons in the context of doubt and disagreement. Argumentation underpins and shapes the decision-making, problem-solving, and conflict management which are fundamental to human relationships. However, argumentation is predominantly conceptualized as two parties arguing pro and con positions with each other in one place. This dyadic bias undermines the capacity to engage argumentation in complex communication in contemporary, digital society. This book offers an ambitious alternative course of inquiry for the analysis, evaluation, and design of argumentation as polylogue: various players arguing over many positions across multiple places. Taking up key aspects of the twentieth-century revival of argumentation as a communicative, situated practice, the polylogue framework engages a wider range of discourses, messages, interactions, technologies, and institutions necessary for adequately engaging the contemporary entanglement of argumentation and complex communication in human activities.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-12-22
Mått157 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor278
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009274371

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Marcin Lewiński is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and the Nova Institute of Philosophy, Nova University of Lisbon. His research applying philosophical concepts to the study of public argumentation has been published in journals, edited volumes and special issues (e.g. Environmental Argumentation, 2019). Mark Aakhus is Professor of Communication at Rutgers University. His scholarship on the relationship among communication, argumentation, and design in digital society has been published in journals, edited volumes and the co-edited volume Perpetual Contact (with James E. Katz, 2002).

'Lewiński and Aakhus provide a detailed and in many ways compelling argument for viewing polylogues involving multiple parties (not monologues or dialogues) as the more fundamental type of communication. Their thesis has important consequences for how we understand argumentative discourses and should command serious attention from scholars and students in a number of related fields.' Christopher Tindale, University of Windsor