Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue

Ellen Breitholtz, Ph.D. (2015), is Associate Researcher at the University of Gothenburg where she works on formal accounts of language involving enthymematic reasoning and topoi. She also leads a project on reasoning in dialogues involving patients with schizophrenia.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures1 Micro-Rhetoric in Dialogic Interaction1.1 Interaction Based Linguistics1.2 Micro-rhetorical Linguistics1.3 The Aristotelian Enthymeme1.4 Topoi—the Warrants of Enthymemes1.5 Linking Enthymeme and Topos1.6 Aim and Outline of This Book2 Enthymematic Reasoning and Pragmatics2.1 Introduction2.2 Presupposition2.3 Conversational Implicature2.4 Relevance Theory2.5 Anti-inferentialism2.6 Discourse Coherence2.7 Summary3 Enthymemes in Dialogue3.1 Introduction3.2 Using ttr to Analyse Interaction3.3 Analysing a Simple Dialogue3.4 Introducing Enthymematic Reasoning on the dgb3.5 Summary4 Analysing Enthymematic Dialogue4.1 Enthymeme Elicited by Why?4.2 Coordinating on Topoi4.3 Summary5 Participating in Enthymematic Dialogue5.1 Enthymemes and Cognitive Load5.2 Enthymemes and Dialogue Context5.3 Conversational Games5.4 The Suggestion Game5.5 Analysing a Suggestion Dialogue5.6 Summary6 Rhetorical Reasoning in Dialogue6.1 A Rhetorical Perspective on Non-monotonicity6.2 Drawing on Topoi in Conversation6.3 Acquiring Topoi in Interaction6.4 Summary7 Conclusions and Future Work7.1 Conclusions7.2 Future Work7.3 SummaryAppendix 1: Update RulesAppendix 2: DefinitionsReferencesIndex