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Interpersonal Arguing

by Dale Hample (Author)
©2018 Textbook XVIII, 306 Pages

Summary

Winner of the 2019 Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Book Award presented by the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association (NCA).
Interpersonal Arguing is an accessible review of scholarship on key elements of face-to-face arguing, which is the interpersonal exchange of reasons. Topics include frames for understanding the nature of arguing, argument situations, serial arguments, argument dialogues, and international differences in how people understand interpersonal arguing. This is a thorough survey of the leading issues involved in understanding how people argue with one another.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • Advance Praise for Interpersonal Arguing
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Chapter One: A Conceptual Inventory
  • Argument Structure
  • An Argument, Generally
  • Syllogisms
  • Argument Schemes
  • Toulmin Model
  • The Enthymeme
  • Interactive Arguments
  • The Momentary Exchange of Reasons
  • Conversational Arguments in a Critical Discussion
  • Summary: Structure
  • The Situation-Goals-Plans-Action Model
  • Situations
  • Goals
  • Plans
  • Action
  • Summary: SGPA
  • Arguing as a Fundamental Human Process
  • Summary
  • Chapter Two: Argument Frames
  • The Three Sets of Frames
  • First-Order Frames: Pursuing Own Goals
  • Second-Order Frames: Respecting the Other Arguer
  • The Third Frame: Reflective Understandings of Arguing
  • Summary: The Idea of Argument Frames
  • Empirical Results
  • Undergraduates and Older Adults
  • Men and Women
  • Associations Among the Frames Measures
  • Frames and Other Features of Personality
  • Conclusions: Empirical Work to Date
  • General Conclusions
  • Chapter Three: Argument Situations
  • Interpersonal Situations
  • Argument Topics
  • Deciding Whether or Not to Argue
  • Features of Situations Involving Arguing
  • Reasonably Apparent Features
  • Primary Goals
  • Subjective Situational Features
  • Secondary Goals
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter Four: Serial Arguments
  • The Nature of Serial Arguments
  • The Original Study
  • Serial Argument Topics
  • Consequences of Serial Arguments
  • Situational Effects and Intrapersonal Dynamics
  • Data
  • Situation
  • Goals, Tactics, and Outcomes
  • Statistical Details
  • Back to the Main Story
  • Section Summary
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter Five: The Rationality Engine
  • Group Thinking
  • Evolutionary Reasons for Optimism
  • Contemporary Evidence
  • Debiasing Arguments
  • Cognition
  • Motivation
  • Design
  • Understanding Debiasing
  • How Good Conversation Improves Argumentation
  • Fallacies
  • Convergent Arguments
  • Analogies
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter Six: Relational Dialogues
  • Walton’s Theory of Dialogue Types
  • Cionea’s Theory of Dialogues in Relationships
  • Investigating Argument Dialogues in Relationships
  • Operationalizing the Dialogue Types
  • Connecting Dialogue Preferences With Other Argumentation Measures
  • General Preferences for Dialogue Types
  • Argumentativeness and Verbal Aggressiveness
  • Argument Frames
  • Correlations Among the Dialogue Types
  • Summary
  • Couples and Their Dialogues
  • Summary
  • Chapter Seven: Arguing and Culture
  • Culture
  • Mapping the Globe: Initial Considerations
  • Mean Differences: Nations High and Low
  • Argument Motivation
  • Argument Frames
  • Personalizing Conflict
  • Sex Differences
  • Dynamics of Arguing Motivations
  • The Opposites Theory
  • The Basis for the Opposites Theory
  • Trying to Understand the Presence or Absence of Opposites
  • Hofstede Values
  • World Values Survey
  • How Strong a Conclusion Should Be Drawn?
  • Comparing Dynamics in Detail
  • Argument Motivations
  • Argument Frames
  • Personalizing Conflict
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter Eight: The Processes of Interpersonal Arguing
  • Multiple Simultaneous Processes
  • Observable Arguments
  • Individual Arguments
  • Shared Arguing
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix: Instrumentation
  • Argument Frames
  • Costs and Benefits of Arguing
  • Taking Conflict Personally
  • Scoring Directions
  • Dialogue Types
  • Argument Stakes
  • Index

Dale Hample

Interpersonal Arguing

About the author

Dale Hample earned his Ph.D. in communication from the University of Illinois in 1975. He has been conducting research in argumentation and related processes (conflict management, persuasion, and interpersonal communication) since that time. His previous books are Readings in Argumentation (1992; co-edited with William and Pamela Benoit) and Arguing: Exchanging Reasons Face to Face (2005). The latter won the 2007 Gerald R. Miller Book Award from the National Communication Association’s Interpersonal Communication Division. He has also won or shared research awards from the American Forensic Association four times. He has keynoted argumentation conferences in the U.S., Canada, Chile, and the Netherlands. He is on the communication faculty at the University of Maryland.

About the book

Interpersonal Arguing is an accessible review of scholarship on key elements of face-to-face arguing, which is the interpersonal exchange of reasons. Topics include frames for understanding the nature of arguing, argument situations, serial arguments, argument dialogues, and international differences in how people understand interpersonal arguing. This is a thorough survey of the leading issues involved in understanding how people argue with one another.

Advance Praise for

Interpersonal Arguing

“I would argue (pun intended) that Dale Hample’s Interpersonal Arguing is an outstanding book that discusses an evolutionary view of arguing and the prudent necessity for framing arguments. He presents empirical studies as well as situational examples. The appendix of instruments is worthwhile. I particularly was enthralled with the chapters on serial arguing and arguing as a personality trait (think of the current president’s tweets in which conflict is taken personally). The discussion of argument frames is enticing in an age in which some people think that arguments that are not based on scientific research are equally credible (e.g., climate change deniers, believers in conversion therapy). Indeed, as stated in the book: ‘The belief that everyone is entitled to an opinion does not logically imply that all opinions have the same merit, which is an unfortunate impression that some people have (Kuhn, 1991).’ This is a great book with massive applications to everyday relationships, persuasion/marketing appeals, negotiations, campaign consultants, and understanding intergroup conflict.”

— James Honeycutt, Professor, Communication Studies,
Louisiana State University

“Anyone who studies arguing among dyads or in interpersonal relationships needs to have this book for their personal library. Dale Hample’s book clearly explains how argument is developed by two people and how it affects the relationship between them. He writes in a conversational tone accessible to those with a wide variety of prior knowledge of the area. This book should be useful to those in argumentation, conflict, and other related areas such as persuasion, intercultural, and relational communication.”

— Amy Janan Johnson, Professor, Department of Communication,
University of Oklahoma

This eBook can be cited

This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.

chapter one

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

List of Figures

Chapter One: A Conceptual Inventory

Argument Structure

An Argument, Generally

Syllogisms

Argument Schemes

Toulmin Model

The Enthymeme

Interactive Arguments

The Momentary Exchange of Reasons

Conversational Arguments in a Critical Discussion

Summary: Structure

The Situation-Goals-Plans-Action Model

Situations

Goals

Plans

Action ←vii | viii→

Summary: SGPA

Arguing as a Fundamental Human Process

Summary

Chapter Two: Argument Frames

The Three Sets of Frames

First-Order Frames: Pursuing Own Goals

Second-Order Frames: Respecting the Other Arguer

The Third Frame: Reflective Understandings of Arguing

Summary: The Idea of Argument Frames

Empirical Results

Undergraduates and Older Adults

Men and Women

Associations Among the Frames Measures

Frames and Other Features of Personality

Conclusions: Empirical Work to Date

General Conclusions

Chapter Three: Argument Situations

Interpersonal Situations

Argument Topics

Deciding Whether or Not to Argue

Features of Situations Involving Arguing

Reasonably Apparent Features

Primary Goals

Subjective Situational Features

Secondary Goals

Conclusions

Chapter Four: Serial Arguments

The Nature of Serial Arguments

The Original Study

Serial Argument Topics

Consequences of Serial Arguments

Situational Effects and Intrapersonal Dynamics

Data

Situation

Goals, Tactics, and Outcomes

Statistical Details

Back to the Main Story

Section Summary

Conclusions ←viii | ix→

Chapter Five: The Rationality Engine

Group Thinking

Evolutionary Reasons for Optimism

Contemporary Evidence

Debiasing Arguments

Cognition

Motivation

Design

Understanding Debiasing

How Good Conversation Improves Argumentation

Fallacies

Convergent Arguments

Analogies

Conclusions

Details

Pages
XVIII, 306
Year
2018
ISBN (PDF)
9781433148941
ISBN (ePUB)
9781433148958
ISBN (MOBI)
9781433148965
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433148903
ISBN (Softcover)
9781433134388
DOI
10.3726/b12877
Language
English
Publication date
2018 (February)
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, 2018. XVIII, 306 pp., 13 b/w ill., 24 tables

Biographical notes

Dale Hample (Author)

Dale Hample earned his Ph.D. in communication from the University of Illinois in 1975. He has been conducting research in argumentation and related processes (conflict management, persuasion, and interpersonal communication) since that time. His previous books are Readings in Argumentation (1992; co-edited with William and Pamela Benoit) and Arguing: Exchanging Reasons Face to Face (2005). The latter won the 2007 Gerald R. Miller Book Award from the National Communication Association’s Interpersonal Communication Division. He has also won or shared research awards from the American Forensic Association four times. He has keynoted argumentation conferences in the U.S., Canada, Chile, and the Netherlands. He is on the communication faculty at the University of Maryland.

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