Chapter 8. Argumentation and the “interaction of minds” in text
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Paul Tucker
Abstract
Whereas current theories stress argumentation’s interactional character and function, this chapter emphasizes its cognitive motivation and textual realization. Text itself will be understood as the record of a course of verbally mediated and interactionally negotiated cognitive explication, focused on some individual entity and progressively elaborated through the intertwining of two orders of speech act – one pragmatically endowing propositions with illocutionary force and cognitive intent, the other positing certain logico-rhetorical relations between them and thereby binding them into discursive coherence. The chapter will concentrate on discourse on visual art, as text typically aiming to explicate individual artworks or collections of such. Examples in English, Italian and French dating from the seventeenth century to the present will show how the same cognitive and communicative strategies are played out in different languages and periods.
Abstract
Whereas current theories stress argumentation’s interactional character and function, this chapter emphasizes its cognitive motivation and textual realization. Text itself will be understood as the record of a course of verbally mediated and interactionally negotiated cognitive explication, focused on some individual entity and progressively elaborated through the intertwining of two orders of speech act – one pragmatically endowing propositions with illocutionary force and cognitive intent, the other positing certain logico-rhetorical relations between them and thereby binding them into discursive coherence. The chapter will concentrate on discourse on visual art, as text typically aiming to explicate individual artworks or collections of such. Examples in English, Italian and French dating from the seventeenth century to the present will show how the same cognitive and communicative strategies are played out in different languages and periods.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of figures vii
- List of tables ix
- Introduction. Genres and persuasion 1
- Chapter 1. Plural conversations about argumentation 24
- Chapter 2. Establishing starting points in Editorials 46
- Chapter 3. Arguments and framing strategies in Italian public discourse about measures to contrast the Covid-19 pandemic 71
- Chapter 4. Press releases of COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers 92
- Chapter 5. Legitimation in contested industries 111
- Chapter 6. Argumentative style in international adoption dossiers 134
- Chapter 7. Persuasion and critical-theoretical thought 153
- Chapter 8. Argumentation and the “interaction of minds” in text 169
- Chapter 9. Argumentation in scientific discourse 189
- Chapter 10. Teaching to manage implicit linguistic meanings 211
- Chapter 11. Bentham on rhetoric 232
- Chapter 12. Engaging conspiracy theories 248
- Index 265
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of figures vii
- List of tables ix
- Introduction. Genres and persuasion 1
- Chapter 1. Plural conversations about argumentation 24
- Chapter 2. Establishing starting points in Editorials 46
- Chapter 3. Arguments and framing strategies in Italian public discourse about measures to contrast the Covid-19 pandemic 71
- Chapter 4. Press releases of COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers 92
- Chapter 5. Legitimation in contested industries 111
- Chapter 6. Argumentative style in international adoption dossiers 134
- Chapter 7. Persuasion and critical-theoretical thought 153
- Chapter 8. Argumentation and the “interaction of minds” in text 169
- Chapter 9. Argumentation in scientific discourse 189
- Chapter 10. Teaching to manage implicit linguistic meanings 211
- Chapter 11. Bentham on rhetoric 232
- Chapter 12. Engaging conspiracy theories 248
- Index 265
