Whether and How Classical Topics can be Revived Within Contemporary Argumentation Theory

Rigotti, Eddo

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“…This model is situated in the tradition of studies on argument schemes or loci vi (Rigotti 2009). The level of detail permitted by the AMT will allow discovering how the contextual frame that the journalist selects in reconstructing a certain event may be activated as a premise for an argument.…”

Section: Strategic Manoeuvring With Contextual Framesmentioning

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“…Exploiting the contextual frame of war, an argument from effects to cause (a subcategory of the locus from the efficient cause according to Rigotti 2009) is put forward to prove that war is still continuing in Iraq: "Security in Iraq is utopia, as demonstrated also by the attack triggered yesterday"; "also" is probably referring to other episodes which the readers have well present in their memory in that moment in time. Also in this case, the choice of a contextual frame determines the endoxon ("meaningless deaths", accidents, friendly fire… are normal "side effects" of wars), which defines what can be considered the effects of a war.…”

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Contextual frames and their argumentative implications: A case study in media argumentation

Greco

2012

Discourse Studies

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On the basis of a case-study based on the argumentative analysis of news in the press, this paper introduces and discusses strategic manoeuvring with contextual frames. Drawing on the linguistic notion of frame, I introduce the concept of contextual frame to refer to the news context, i.e. the background against which a certain event is presented as a piece of news. I argue that newspapers and journalists make use of contextual frames in the apparently neutral genre of news reporting to propose specific interpretations of the facts at issue, which become the basis for explicit comments and editorials. To show how this works, I analyse a case of newspaper coverage of a complex episode using the pragma-dialectical notion of strategic manoeuvring and the Argumentum Model of Topics (AMT) to analyse argument schemes. I show that, in the use of contextual frames, there is a prominent relation between presentational devices (the lexical choices which build up the frame) and topical potential; contextual frames provide the implicit material premises (endoxa) which are at the basis of argumentations through which newspapers interpret and comment the news.

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Section: Strategic Manoeuvring With Contextual Framesmentioning

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Contextual frames and their argumentative implications: A case study in media argumentation

Greco

2012

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“…The model has been more systematically illustrated in other occasions (Rigotti and Greco, 2006;Rigotti, 2007). Here, I will limit myself to the presentation of its fundamental traits; in particular I shall focus on the relationship between the argument choice and the communicative context within which the argumentative intervention takes place.…”

Section: Strategic Manoeuvring and The Argumentum-version Of Topicsmentioning

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“…The taxonomy of loci proposed in Argumentum is not illustrated in detail here; I will limit myself to outline it concisely and mention other presentations (Rigotti, 2007;Rigotti and Greco, 2006) In the Medieval literature on topics, loci were distinguished, according to their proximity to the standpoint, into intrinsic, extrinsic and middle loci.…”

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Relevance of Context-bound loci to Topical Potential in the Argumentation Stage

Rigotti

2007

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In relation to the task of making an expedient selection from the available loci within the topical potential that strategic manoeuvring envisages for the argumentation stage, this paper proposes a version of topics, which is both inspired to the traditional doctrine of topics and consistent with the theoretical framing and the methodological tenets that are proper of modern semantics and current theory of argumentation. The argumentative relevance of communication context in its institutionalised and interpersonal components is brought to light. Three main aspects are focussed on: the strong synergy of the topical and the endoxical components in argument construction, the use of topics in analysis and evaluation of arguments and the heuristic function of topics in the production process.

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“…A graphical representation, named Y-structure, is meant to focus on this connection ( Fig. 1; see also the examples in Rigotti 2006Rigotti , 2009Christopher Guerra 2008;Palmieri 2009;Filimon 2009;Danesi and Rocci 2009;Rigotti and Greco Morasso 2009;Greco Morasso 2009).…”

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Comparing the Argumentum Model of Topics to Other Contemporary Approaches to Argument Schemes: The Procedural and Material Components

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Whether and How Classical Topics can be Revived Within Contemporary Argumentation Theory

Cited by 81 publications

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Contextual frames and their argumentative implications: A case study in media argumentation

Contextual frames and their argumentative implications: A case study in media argumentation

Relevance of Context-bound loci to Topical Potential in the Argumentation Stage

Comparing the Argumentum Model of Topics to Other Contemporary Approaches to Argument Schemes: The Procedural and Material Components

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