Controversy and Confrontation; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; List of contributors; Controversy and confrontation in argumentative discourse; Dichotomies and types of debate; Charles Darwin versus George Mivart; Scientific demarcation and metascience; Reforming the Jews, rejecting marginalization; Communication principles for controversies; On the role of pragmatics, rhetoric and dialectic in scientific controversies; A "dialectic ladder" of refutation and dissuasion; Responding to objections; Pragmatic inconsistency and credibility.
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The essays that are collected in Controversy and Confrontation provide a closer insight into the relationship between controversy and confrontation that deepens our understanding of the functioning of argumentative discourse in managing differences of opinion. Their authors stem from two backgrounds. First, the controversy scholars Dascal, Marras, Euli, Regner, Ferreira, and Lessl discuss historical controversies in science, both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective; Saim concentrates on a historical controversy; Fritz provides a historical perspective on controversies by analyzing.
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Controversy and confrontation.
Debates and debatiing.
Logic.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Pragmatics.
Reasoning.
Argumentationstheorie
Beeinflussung
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Communication Studies.