Argumentation theory and critical thinking together form a crucial sphere of scholarly inquiry that interrogates the nature, structure and ethics of human reasoning. This interdisciplinary field ...

In Giving Reasons: A Linguistic-pragmatic-approach to Argumentation Theory (Springer, 2011), I provide a new model for the semantic and pragmatic appraisal of argumentation. This model is based on a ...

Rhetorical questions expressing premises are situated at the intersection of two disciplines whose object of study is argumentation: dialectic and rhetoric. This paper examines arguments in biblical ...

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