LOGICAL-COGNITIVE ANALYSIS OF USING THE PREFORM QUESTION IN ARGUMENTATIVE DISCUSSION

Abstract

The article presents the results of the study of the discussion snippets in the form of question-answering structures using the “argumentative discussion” construct; the study was based on the scripts of video panel discussions on the YouTube platform. Involving the methodology of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation in part of the analytical reconstruction of argumentative discourse, the author does not take as a basis the concept of persuading a rational addressee, which is common in argumentative theory, but takes the idea of verifying the point of view of cognitive agents of communication. It allows to consider the dialogic structure as a multi-subject procedure for checking the objectivity of knowledge of the participants in the discussion. The purpose of the article is to explore the question utterance in the position of the preform in the question-answering unity. The article contains scientific data from the field of erothetic logic, which shows that the question can be interpreted as a fragment of reasoning. For the reconstruction of cue-question, the concept of symptosymmetric proportionality of the components of dialogical unities is used. We analyzed all speech units in dialogic syntagmas in the form of Argumentative Step. Such an analysis showed that the basis of the question contains elements that perform argumentative functions. The focal meaning of these elements is found in response cues. As the result, the symptosymmetric models Preform-thesis ↔ refutation by facts, Preform-thesis ↔ antithesis, Preform-clarification ↔ correction were obtained. The interim result of the study is that the cue-question in the position of the preform is also a marker of a violation of the logical-categorical norms of reasoning and ad hoc errors.