Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Maneuvering strategically with dissociation in a political interview 5
5. Strategic maneuvering in critical reactions to pragmatic argumentation 21
6. Figurative analogy in political argumentation 39
7. Strategic maneuvering with visual arguments in political cartoons 59
8. Anecdotes and Arguments 75
9. Pragma-dialectical analysis of rhetorical texts 89
10. Amplification in strategic maneuvering 103
11. Breast cancer screening 117
12. A doctor’s ethos enhancing maneuvers in medical consultation 135
13. “Try the smarter way” 153
14. Argument analysis in large-scale deliberation 165
15. The pragma-dialectical account of argument schemes 185
16. The analysis of the strategic function of presentational techniques 207
17. Handling counterarguments 221
18. On combining pragma-dialectics with critical discourse analysis 231
19. Formal dialectical systems and their uses in the study of argumentation 245
20. The pragma-dialectical approach to circularity in argumentation 265
21. Index 281