Pondering on Problems of Argumentation

• Argumentative Strategies.- Seizing the Occasion: Parameters for Analysing Ways of Strategic Manoeuvring.- Manoeuvring Strategically with Rhetorical Questions.- Dissociation: Between Rhetorical Success and Dialectical Soundness.- Strategies of Refutation by Definition: A Pragma-Rhetorical Approach to Refutations in a Public Speech.- Norms of Reasonableness and Fallaciousness.- Nonfallacious Rhetorical Design in Argumentation.- Normatively Responsible Advocacy: Some Provocations from Persuasion Effects Research.- Duets, Cartoons, and Tragedies: Struggles with the Fallacy of Composition.- Deductivism and the Informal Fallacies.- Types of Argument and Argument Schemes.- From Figure to Argument: Contrarium in Roman Rhetoric.- Comparing the Incomparable: Figurative Analogies in a Dialectical Testing Procedure.- Argument Schemes Typologies in Practice: The Case of Comparative Arguments.- Whether and How Classical Topics can be Revived Within Contemporary Argumentation Theory.- Structure of Argumentation.- Against Making the Linked-Convergent Distinction.- Argument Strength, the Toulmin Model, and Ampliative Probability.- Modalities as Indicators in Argumentative Reconstruction.- Five Theses on Toulmin and Visual Argument.- Rules for Advocacy and Discussion.- On How to Get Beyond the Opening Stage.- Testing for Acceptable Premises Within Systems of Belief.- The Duties of Advocacy: Argumentation Under Conditions of Disparity, Asymmetry, and Difference.- Actually Existing Rules for Closing Arguments.

From the reviews: "There is a little something for almost any serious student or scholar of argumentation to chew on in this volume. ... provide an important snapshot of theoretical issues scholars grapple with in the first decade of the twenty-first century. ... recommend this book to anyone looking for an introduction to the breadth and depth of contemporary argumentation scholarship. ... helpful in introducing a variety of approaches to argumentation scholarship that one might not normally come across when conducting research from one's own disciplinary vantage point."--- (Harry Weger Jr., Argumentation, Vol. 25, 2011)