Social discourse and argumentative logic
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https://doi.org/10.54789/rihumso.12.1.1.3Keywords:
Argumentation, Rhetoric, Social DiscourseAbstract
This paper examines the relationship between discourse analysis, rhetoric and argumentation theories. Several contemporary argumentation theorists have tried to see rhetoric as persuasive efforts aimed at resolving a difference of opinion. However Marc Angenot (2008) argues that public languages that coexist in a given state of society to be distinguished “beyond their diverging points of view, the clash of data retained or set aside, the disparity of their objectives as well as of the interests that fuel them—by their incompatible cognitive and argumentative character”. The author suggests that such “cognitive breaks” that result in a “dialogue of the deaf” may divide at a given point the topography of public opinion. This paper shows a theoretical framework for the analysis relating discursive, cognitive, rhetorical and socio-political aspects of public languages in a multidisciplinary approach. It concludes with a discussion of the value of theory of Social Discourse proposed by Marc Angenot. This alternative methodological approach provides the rhetorical researcher with complementary means to illuminate the role of public discourse in order to legitimate certain views, opinions and themes.
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