Comments on Scott Jacobs’ ‘Rhetoric and dialectic from the standpoint of normative pragmatics’

Goodwin, Jean. “Comments on [Jacobs’] ‘Rhetoric and Dialectic from the Standpoint of Normative Pragmatics’.” Argumentation 14 (2000): 287-92.

I lay out the basic working principles of a normative pragmatic approach to argumentation, elaborating on Jacobs’ work, and in partial contrast with the pragma-dialectical approach.

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