TY - BOOK AU - Marco Rühl PY - 2021 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag TI - Arguing and Communicative Asymmetry T2 - The Analysis of the Interactive Process of Arguing in Non-ideal Situations UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1094159 N2 - 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. KW - kommunikation, sprache, enzyklopdie LA - English ER -