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Frans H. Van Eemeren "Examining Argumentation in Context: Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering"

Preface

Examining Argumentation in Context is dedicated to the memory of Peter

Houtlosser, who died of cancer on the 14th of February 2008. Peter was not only

a dear friend of the contributors to this volume and a great many others, but he

was also a prominent argumentation theorist who died before he could realize his

full scholarly potential. Peter and I were convinced that a satisfactory analysis and

evaluation of argumentative discourse is possible only if the argumentation concerned

is first situated in the communicative and interactional context in which

it occurs. Together we worked for ten years on the development of a theory of

strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse that would enrich the pragmadialectical

approach developed at the University of Amsterdam by including the

contextual dimension. The fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering presented in

this volume are brought together as a token of respect for Peter’s intellectual contributions

to the study of argumentation.

As part of a research program on strategic maneuvering in argumentative

discourse subsidized by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

(NWO, no. 360-80-030) Peter and I organized in Amsterdam four one-day conferences

for argumentation theorists interested in this topic. The first conference

took place in October 2006 and was devoted to a discussion of general perspectives

on strategic maneuvering. The second conference was held in May 2007 and

concentrated on qualitative and quantitative empirical research with regard to

strategic maneuvering. The third conference in October 2007 focusing on strategic

maneuvering in institutionalized contexts was the last conference in which

Peter could take part. The fourth conference in May 2008 was dedicated to presentational

devices used in strategic maneuvering.

The papers presented at these four conferences provide useful and sometimes

illuminating insights in the views of strategic maneuvering of more than

forty argumentation theorists studying argumentation in context who have paid

attention to the problems involved in the analysis and evaluation of strategic

maneuvering. For this volume I had to make a selection that is a good representation

of the rich variety of the four conferences and the ideas presented. This

means that this volume contains some essays in which general views with regard

to strategic maneuvering are presented as well as essays reporting on the results

of empirical study, essays that examine argumentation embedded in a particular

legal or political context, and essays highlighting the presentational aspect of

strategic maneuvering. More often than not the essays offer a combination of

these perspectives.

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