Affiliation:
1. University of Fribourg
Abstract
Abstract
The introduction to this special issue provides an overview of the notion of disagreement in relation to
argumentative practices and presents the rationale for investigating disagreement management in argumentative discourse from a
pragmatic perspective. It describes how existing accounts of disagreement in argumentation have focused on limited instances of
the phenomenon, both in terms of its pragmatic embedding (which has predominantly focused on assertive speech acts) and of its
scope (which usually covers the normative dimension of argumentative quality). The contributions to this special issue are then
presented and contextualised within this broader topic to expound how each of them addresses key pragmatic aspects of disagreement
management in argumentative discourse.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company