%0 Book
%A Marco Rühl
%D 2021
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T Arguing and Communicative Asymmetry
%B The Analysis of the Interactive Process of Arguing in Non-ideal Situations
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1094159
%X Why is it that people are often inclined to accept irrational arguments or to reject rational ones? It is, the author argues, because discussions in everyday life are both dialectical – conducted with the best possible solution in mind – and rhetorical – organized by the interactors in the form of a discursive event. By combining argumentation theoretical and discourse analytical insights and revisiting ancient and medieval rhetoric and dialectics, this study transcends the assumption of a symmetrical communicative situation in which only «good» arguments matter. It redefines dialectical concepts, e.g., acceptability or conclusiveness, from a rhetorical and dialogic perspective and is thereby able to address colloquial speech arguing as the inherently asymmetrical discursive event it is.
%K kommunikation, sprache, enzyklopdie
%G English