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Understanding Argumentation: Distinguishing It from Persuasion, Explanation, and Demonstration

Argumentation addresses controversial topics, inviting discussion and aiming to change beliefs through rational discourse. Unlike persuasion, which seeks to induce behavior for specific advantages often in advertising contexts, argumentation emphasizes reasoned argument over emotion. Meanwhile, explanation illuminates uncontested subjects without argument, while demonstration adheres to strict logical proof. Effective argumentative writing employs complex linguistic tools and adheres to principles of coherence, ensuring that claims are well-supported and oppositional views are acknowledged, following a structured progression.

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Understanding Argumentation: Distinguishing It from Persuasion, Explanation, and Demonstration

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  1. Text types: Argumentation

  2. 1 Argumentation Vs persuasion, explanation and demonstration Argumentation deals with a controversial topic, open for discussion.

  3. 2 Persuasion (e.g., in advertising) aims at ↓ inducing behaviour obtaining resulting advantages How? using all available means

  4. 3 Argumentation aims at ↓ changing beliefs How? using rational means (i.e. discourse)

  5. 4 Explanation The subject of an explanatory discourse is not contested, i.e. there is no argumentation because this subject is not contested

  6. 5 Demonstration aims at ↓ providing proof by means of normative and strictly specified rules (reasoning and formal logic)

  7. 6 Natural argumentation canmake use of formallogic and "recognized" knowledge but itrestsprimarily upon sharedbeliefs (supposedlysharedbeliefs)

  8. 7. ORGANIZE YOUR TEXT Writingprocesses: • Processes of conceptualization, i.e. activation and organization of ideas; • Processesassociatedwith the linguistictranslating, or formulating, of concepts. Problemsat the transition from 1 to 2: why? structure of conceptualrepresentation not necessarilyunidimensional whereas structure of languagenecessarilylinear.

  9. 8 However: somelinguistictoolsallow us to structure the linguisticsequence: e.g. syntactic subordination and coordination, punctuation, anaphorae, connectives. Argumentative writingrequires the use of complexlinguistictools, especiallyat the structural level of the connexions to beestablishedbetween the content elements.

  10. 9. Global requirements? • Recognizing the existence of a conflict between A and B, i.e. recognizing the presence of arguments • Taking a claim • Supporting the claim • Assigning a (minimal) value to the opposite claim • Restrictions to both opposing claims

  11. 10 Goingfrom the initial claim to the contradictory claim in a coherentmanner, imposes to respect somegeneralrules of textcontinuity and progression. The writer has to ensure the argumentative congruence of successive arguments: - arguments presenting the same orientation shouldbecoordinated, - arguments withopposite orientation shouldbelinked by an opposite or concessive device. Sincethere are twodifferentthemes, there must bethematiccontinuity: - sentences evoking content 1 shouldbeconnected to claim 1, sentences evoking content 2 shouldbeconnected to claim 2.

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