TY - BOOK
T1 - Argumentation in Complex Communication
T2 - Managing Disagreement in a Polylogue
AU - Lewiński, Marcin
AU - Aakhus, Mark
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F00183%2F2020/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDP%2F00183%2F2020/PT#
UIDB/00183/2020
UIDP/00183/2020
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - A pervasive aspect of human communication and sociality is argumentation: the practice of making and criticizing reasons in the context of doubt and disagreement. Argumentation underpins and shapes the decision-making, problem-solving, and conflict management which are fundamental to human relationships. However, argumentation is predominantly conceptualized as two parties arguing pro and con positions with each other in one place. This dyadic bias undermines the capacity to engage argumentation in complex communication in contemporary, digital society. This book offers an ambitious alternative course of inquiry for the analysis, evaluation, and design of argumentation as polylogue: various players arguing over many positions across multiple places. Taking up key aspects of the twentieth-century revival of argumentation as a communicative, situated practice, the polylogue framework engages a wider range of discourses, messages, interactions, technologies, and institutions necessary for adequately engaging the contemporary entanglement of argumentation and complex communication in human activities. Exposes the ever-widening gap between today's theory and practice of argumentation – and bridges it by offering new concepts to analyze, evaluate, and design argumentation Overturns a profound bias in argumentation theory that limits the capacity and reach of the field for engaging complex communication in contemporary, digital society Offers an innovative theoretical framework for analyzing, evaluating, and designing polylogues, understood as practices of managing disagreements among multiple positions, players, and places.
AB - A pervasive aspect of human communication and sociality is argumentation: the practice of making and criticizing reasons in the context of doubt and disagreement. Argumentation underpins and shapes the decision-making, problem-solving, and conflict management which are fundamental to human relationships. However, argumentation is predominantly conceptualized as two parties arguing pro and con positions with each other in one place. This dyadic bias undermines the capacity to engage argumentation in complex communication in contemporary, digital society. This book offers an ambitious alternative course of inquiry for the analysis, evaluation, and design of argumentation as polylogue: various players arguing over many positions across multiple places. Taking up key aspects of the twentieth-century revival of argumentation as a communicative, situated practice, the polylogue framework engages a wider range of discourses, messages, interactions, technologies, and institutions necessary for adequately engaging the contemporary entanglement of argumentation and complex communication in human activities. Exposes the ever-widening gap between today's theory and practice of argumentation – and bridges it by offering new concepts to analyze, evaluate, and design argumentation Overturns a profound bias in argumentation theory that limits the capacity and reach of the field for engaging complex communication in contemporary, digital society Offers an innovative theoretical framework for analyzing, evaluating, and designing polylogues, understood as practices of managing disagreements among multiple positions, players, and places.
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U2 - 10.1017/9781009274364
DO - 10.1017/9781009274364
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85138691223
SN - 9781009274371
BT - Argumentation in Complex Communication
PB - Cambridge University Press
CY - Cambridge
ER -