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Preface
This book is divided into two thematic parts: the first one, Argumentation
in critical discourse analysis, is dedicated to the use of topoi and fallacies in
the Critical Discourse Analysis (more precisely in its Discourse Historical
Approach branch), while the second part, Questions and doubts about
visual argumentation, tackles some important methodological problems
pertinent to the field of visual argumentation.
Argumentation in critical discourse analysis combines two themati-
cally connected papers (modified and revised): ‘Topoi in critical discourse
analysis’ was first presented as a key-note address at the 2009 conference on
Political Linguistics in Lodz, Poland, while the second one, ‘Fallacies: Do
we “use” them or “commit” them?’, was a follow-up of the Lodz paper, pre-
sented at the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation conference at
the University of Windsor, Canada, in 2011.
Second part, Questions and doubts about visual argumentation, con-
sists of two narrowly connected papers (modified and revised): ‘Is there
anyt hing like visual argumentation? A short exercise in methodical doubt’,
first presented at the 1st European Conference on Argumentation in Lisbon
in 2015, while the second one, ‘Perception, inference and understanding in
visual argumentation (and beyond)’ is its follow-up, presented at the 2nd
European Conference on Argumentation in Fribourg, Switzerland, in 2017.
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This book is divided into two thematic parts: the first one, Argumentation
in critical discourse analysis, is dedicated to the use of topoi and fallacies in
the Critical Discourse Analysis (more precisely in its Discourse Historical
Approach branch), while the second part, Questions and doubts about
visual argumentation, tackles some important methodological problems
pertinent to the field of visual argumentation.
Argumentation in critical discourse analysis combines two themati-
cally connected papers (modified and revised): ‘Topoi in critical discourse
analysis’ was first presented as a key-note address at the 2009 conference on
Political Linguistics in Lodz, Poland, while the second one, ‘Fallacies: Do
we “use” them or “commit” them?’, was a follow-up of the Lodz paper, pre-
sented at the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation conference at
the University of Windsor, Canada, in 2011.
Second part, Questions and doubts about visual argumentation, con-
sists of two narrowly connected papers (modified and revised): ‘Is there
anyt hing like visual argumentation? A short exercise in methodical doubt’,
first presented at the 1st European Conference on Argumentation in Lisbon
in 2015, while the second one, ‘Perception, inference and understanding in
visual argumentation (and beyond)’ is its follow-up, presented at the 2nd
European Conference on Argumentation in Fribourg, Switzerland, in 2017.
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