Argumentation in Practice -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1. Studying argumentative practice -- 2. Forms and conceptions of argumentation -- 3. Empirical studies of argumentative practice -- Notes -- References -- Forms and conceptions of argumentation -- ``The issue'' in argumentation practice and theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The issue as a theoretical construct -- 3. Classroom discussions -- 4. Public participation at school board meetings -- 4.1. ``Barbiegate'' -- 4.2. Pragmatic uses of the issue in public participation discourse -- 5. Normative reflection: Reconstructing interactional problems and situated ideals -- Note -- References -- Hearing is believing -- 1. The three perspectives -- 2. A lesson from Whately -- 3. Bad process -- 4. A perspectival taxonomy -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Let's talk -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Confrontation -- 3. The opening stage -- 4. The argumentation stage -- 5. Resolution -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Indicators of dissociation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The notion of dissociation -- 3. How dissociation manifests itself -- 3.1. Separation -- 3.2. Negation -- 3.3. Value -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- A collaborative model of argumentation in dyadic problem-solving interactions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A collaborative model of argumentation in dyadic problem-solving interactions -- 3. Corpus sample 1: A chat interaction analysis -- 4. A graphical representation of dialogical argumentation -- 5. Corpus sample 2: A graphical argumentative interaction -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- The argumentative dimension of discourse -- 1. The scope and limits of argumentation -- 2. The argumentative dimension of discourse: Case studies -- 2.1. The case of war testimony -- 2.2. The case of literary narrative.

3. Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Designing premises -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Premise design in a forensic setting -- 3. Premise design in a deliberative setting -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- On the pragmatics of argumentative discourse -- References -- From argument analysis to cultural keywords (and back again) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Keywords and cultural keywords -- 3. Corpora, ``discourse'' and argumentation -- 4. Keywords and topoi in the enthymematic structure of natural language arguments -- 5. Reshaping meaning: Reason as a keyword in Milton's Areopagitica -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Sources of examples -- Empirical studies of argumentative practice -- The accusation of amalgame as a meta-argumentative refutation -- 1. The French word amalgame -- 2. Qualifying an argumentation as amalgame is a way of rejecting it as unacceptable -- 3. Other expressions used for accusing someone of making an amalgame -- 4. What does the accusation of amalgame refer to? -- 4.1. An association of two objects x and y on the basis of properties which are presented as shared and conclusive -- 4.2. The connection between two objects x and y because of a relationship of dependence between them -- 5. Difficulties in identifying what the accusation of amalgame is about -- 6. The accusation of amalgame's ``semantic emptying'' -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Constructing the (imagined) antagonist in advertising argumentation -- 1. Introduction: The problem of the imagined antagonist -- 2. Advertising discourse -- 2.1. Advertising as an argumentative genre -- 3. Categorising the addressee -- 3.1. Inclusion/exclusion -- 3.2. Implicit and explicit inclusion -- 3.3. The function of the types -- 3.4. The `unacknowledged audience' -- 3.5. Multi-layered applications of the binary -- 4. Extended example -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

Competing demands, multiple ideals, and the structure of argumentation practices -- 1. Televised town hall meetings -- 2. The Simpson verdict controversy as public argument -- 3. Analytical strategy -- 4. Analysis of the town meeting structure and argumentation -- 4.1. Reliance on experts as the voice of the people -- 4.2. Undeveloped standpoints -- 5. Conclusions: Competing idealizations of participation in public deliberation -- References -- Arguments of victims -- 1. Origin and history of victims' arguments -- 2. The genre of victim impact arguments -- Themes -- Stylistics -- Speech plans -- 3. Implications -- References -- Coductive and abductive foundations for sentimental arguments in politics -- 1. Abductive and coductive inference -- 2. The 2000 Republican and Democratic Party national conventions -- 2.1. The Etheridge patriotic montage -- 2.2. The Republican video on education -- 3. Abduction, coduction, sentimentality, and political argumentation -- Note -- References -- Appendix A -- Lyrics for the Music from the 2000 National Political Conventions (C-Span, 2000 -- videos available on Gronbeck, 2001) -- My Place in This World, Music Performed by Michael W. Smith [1991] -- Reparations or separation? -- 1. ``Be true to what you put on paper'': McPhail's coherence and the rhetoric of racism -- 2. Of judgments true and righteous altogether: Farrell's coherence and the ethics of rhetoric -- 3. Rhetoric, reparations, or resignation: The hope(lessness) that race creates -- References -- Discursive collisions -- Notes -- References -- Aesthetic arguments and civil society -- 1. The Guildford Four: Art intersects history -- 2. The argument for conditions of war -- 3. Debating history through art -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The use of arguments from perceived opposition in U.S. terrorism policy.

1. Arguments from perceived opposition -- 2. The Carter administration -- 3. The Reagan administration -- 4. The Bush administration -- 5. Implications -- References -- How could official speakers communicate reasonably with their king? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical background -- 2.1. Argumentative discourse in the public sphere of the early Joseon dynasty -- 2.2. The consensus system of sadaebu -- 3. Case analysis -- 3.1. Situational frame of the case -- 3.2. Phase movement of participants -- 4. Discussion -- Datum: Saheonbu's prime official Yi Chik and the others' sangso -- Notes -- References -- Argument density and argument diversity in the license applications of French provincial printers, 1669-1781 -- The data -- Argumentation theory -- A first look at the data -- Looking more closely at qualification arguments (Table C) -- Family factor arguments (Table D) -- Some conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Inventional capacity -- 1. Theoretical background -- 2. The empirical record to date -- 2.1. Operationalization -- 2.2. The nature of the individual difference -- 2.3. Situation -- 2.4. The nature of the repertoires -- 3. Conclusions -- References -- The conventional validity of the pragma-dialectical freedom rule -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conventional validity and violations of the freedom rule -- 3. Judgments on fallacies and non-fallacies -- 4. Judgments on different types of fallacies -- 5. Politeness as an alternative explanation -- 6. The type of proposition expressed in the standpoint as an alternative explanation -- 7. The freedom rule and the `polder' debate -- 8. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- the series Controversies.