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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 February 2023
      22 December 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009274364
      9781009274371
      9781009274395
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009274364
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 278 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.406kg, 278 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Logic, Sociolinguistics, Philosophy, Language and Linguistics
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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.

    Awards

    Winner, 2023 Distinguished Book Award (Philosophy of Communication Division), National Communication Association

    Reviews

    ‘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

    ‘[This book] develops a compelling framework for how we ought to be studying argument in our increasingly mediated and digitized world. It is a book worth reading, and it is one likely to change conversations, offering a way to bring nuance and better judgment to public and personal debates about what are appropriate courses of actions.’

    Karen Tracy Source: Argumentation

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