Short videos depicting rural China have gained popularity on social media domestically and internationally. Among the genre’s creators, Li Ziqi stands out for her unique style of culinary craft, starting from the most basic materials. I interpret Li Ziqi’s mushroom videos as multimodal “argumentative meshworks” casting a counterstatement to the “involuted” urban life and nature/culture division. To unfold the analyses, I first place videos in the context of urban ills. Built on previous studies of multimodal argumentation and entanglement anthropology, I define “argumentative meshworks” in three aspects: a human-nonhuman entanglement, a simplicity-complexity harmony, and a production-audience interaction. Then I select three mushroom videos as artefacts to unpack the multimodal meshworks. Following the empirical call argumentation studies, I use viewers’ comments to support my points throughout the whole piece. This inquiry explores multimodal argumentation’s new possibility to not only stress things out but create space for harmony and peace of mind.
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Argumentation on some public policy issues is conjugated with disagreement and power differentials. Institutionally dominant arguers control the argumentation context through imposing authority rules which sometimes incentivize them to respond to opposing arguers in a fallacious way1 – with “the repeating tokens of the same counterarguments” and without considering the merits of opposing arguments. As produced in accordance with authority rules, such fallacies are embedded in the dominant argumentative discourse and easily pass unnoticed. To detect them, I introduce Argument Continuity (AC) – a new category of argumentative discourse analysis. AC is a set of the same arguments and counterarguments repeatedly produced/reproduced by the dominant arguer through an adversarial reasoning process to disconfirm opposing arguments and dismiss them. ACs are distinguished from other fallacies by their continuous nature and recursive way of production. ACs have their own life cycle – a chain of reasoning dynamics developing in a path-dependent fashion and increasing the cost of adopting a certain argument over time. I test the life cycle of ACs in a single case study – in consultations held by the Crown with Indigenous peoples of Canada over a controversial resource development project. Although ACs are not specific to the Crown-Indigenous relationships, they reveal how dominant arguers treat disagreement from epistemically diverse arguers. Based on observed evidence, I develop three theoretical propositions of ACs, which can serve as guidelines for researching the disconfirming mode of reasoning in other contexts of communication permeated by beliefs clash and power asymmetries.
{"title":"Argument Continuities in theory and practice","authors":"O. Pimenova","doi":"10.1075/jaic.21009.pim","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.21009.pim","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Argumentation on some public policy issues is conjugated with disagreement and power differentials.\u0000 Institutionally dominant arguers control the argumentation context through imposing authority rules which sometimes incentivize\u0000 them to respond to opposing arguers in a fallacious way1 – with “the repeating tokens of the\u0000 same counterarguments” and without considering the merits of opposing arguments. As produced in accordance with authority rules,\u0000 such fallacies are embedded in the dominant argumentative discourse and easily pass unnoticed. To detect them, I introduce\u0000 Argument Continuity (AC) – a new category of argumentative discourse analysis. AC is a set of the same arguments and\u0000 counterarguments repeatedly produced/reproduced by the dominant arguer through an adversarial reasoning process to disconfirm\u0000 opposing arguments and dismiss them. ACs are distinguished from other fallacies by their continuous nature and recursive way of\u0000 production. ACs have their own life cycle – a chain of reasoning dynamics developing in a path-dependent fashion and increasing\u0000 the cost of adopting a certain argument over time. I test the life cycle of ACs in a single case study – in consultations held by\u0000 the Crown with Indigenous peoples of Canada over a controversial resource development project. Although ACs are not specific to\u0000 the Crown-Indigenous relationships, they reveal how dominant arguers treat disagreement from epistemically diverse arguers. Based\u0000 on observed evidence, I develop three theoretical propositions of ACs, which can serve as guidelines for researching the\u0000 disconfirming mode of reasoning in other contexts of communication permeated by beliefs clash and power asymmetries.","PeriodicalId":41908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Argumentation in Context","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49604293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Proverbs are often used in argumentation to convey an epistemic or deontic point of view. While their argumentative potential has not failed to gain the attention of linguists, much remains to be done in terms of analyzing their pragmatic function in single argumentative contexts and languages. With a view to this desideratum, and embracing a contrastive perspective, I pose the question of the argumentative role of proverbs in Italian and French journalistic discourse. In a pragma-dialectical framework, I take the rhetorical perspective to pertain to argumentation as much as the dialectical one and show the potential of proverbs in both spheres. However, I then focus mainly the former perspective, showing how paroemiological argumentation can help mitigate the difference of opinion especially in the case of dissent and facilitate argumentative effectiveness thanks to protagonist-centered and antagonist-oriented strategies involving linguistic polyphony and non-directness.
{"title":"Paroemiological argumentation in Italian and French journalistic discourse","authors":"Marina Bletsas","doi":"10.1075/jaic.21003.ble","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.21003.ble","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Proverbs are often used in argumentation to convey an epistemic or deontic point of view. While their\u0000 argumentative potential has not failed to gain the attention of linguists, much remains to be done in terms of analyzing their\u0000 pragmatic function in single argumentative contexts and languages. With a view to this desideratum, and embracing a contrastive\u0000 perspective, I pose the question of the argumentative role of proverbs in Italian and French journalistic discourse. In a\u0000 pragma-dialectical framework, I take the rhetorical perspective to pertain to argumentation as much as the dialectical one and\u0000 show the potential of proverbs in both spheres. However, I then focus mainly the former perspective, showing how paroemiological\u0000 argumentation can help mitigate the difference of opinion especially in the case of dissent and facilitate argumentative\u0000 effectiveness thanks to protagonist-centered and antagonist-oriented strategies involving linguistic polyphony and\u0000 non-directness.","PeriodicalId":41908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Argumentation in Context","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41905173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Schär (2021): An Argumentative Analysis of the Emergence of Issues in Adult–Children Discussions","authors":"A. Bova","doi":"10.1075/jaic.21012.bov","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.21012.bov","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Argumentation in Context","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42182855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper examines the discursive construction of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern after she wore a veil following the unprecedented terror attack in two mosques in the city of Christchurch in 2019. The articles analyzed are collected from three main newspapers published in New Zealand’s three main cities. Analyzed using principles and tools from Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) and Argumentum Model of Topics (AMT) more specifically, the articles reveal key arguments from both sides i.e. in support of and against this unparalleled initiative on behalf of a political leader in the western world. On the one hand, the majority of the news articles under analysis portray PM’s initiative as one that attempts to mitigate tension and conflict while bringing solidarity to a grief-stricken nation; and thus, are based on the ‘locus from ontological implications’. While the perspectives that oppose the initiative vary from explicit racist ones that present Muslims as threat to Zealand, to those who strongly believe such actions support the women oppression. Through a (de-)construction of the arguments opposing this move, the findings demonstrate that the opposition towards PM’s initiative is based on two main loci namely the ‘locus from correlates’ and the ‘locus from termination and setting up’
{"title":"(De-)constructing New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern’s initiative to wear the hijab after the Christchurch terrorist attack","authors":"N. Salahshour, Dimitris Serafis","doi":"10.1075/jaic.21006.sal","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.21006.sal","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper examines the discursive construction of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern after she wore a veil following\u0000 the unprecedented terror attack in two mosques in the city of Christchurch in 2019. The articles analyzed are collected from three\u0000 main newspapers published in New Zealand’s three main cities. Analyzed using principles and tools from Critical Discourse Studies\u0000 (CDS) and Argumentum Model of Topics (AMT) more specifically, the articles reveal key arguments from both sides i.e. in support of\u0000 and against this unparalleled initiative on behalf of a political leader in the western world. On the one hand, the majority of\u0000 the news articles under analysis portray PM’s initiative as one that attempts to mitigate tension and conflict while bringing\u0000 solidarity to a grief-stricken nation; and thus, are based on the ‘locus from ontological implications’. While the perspectives\u0000 that oppose the initiative vary from explicit racist ones that present Muslims as threat to Zealand, to those who strongly believe\u0000 such actions support the women oppression. Through a (de-)construction of the arguments opposing this move, the findings\u0000 demonstrate that the opposition towards PM’s initiative is based on two main loci namely the ‘locus from correlates’ and the\u0000 ‘locus from termination and setting up’","PeriodicalId":41908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Argumentation in Context","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43224033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper is focused on the practice of private diary-writing as an act of externalizing internal communication from the point of view of the theory of argumentation. It is demonstrated that through diary-writing, various forms of internal negotiation can be implemented. The paper sheds light on three ways internal negotiation is externalized through diary writing: reflective diary writing, crisis diary writing and self-encouraging diary writing. It is shown that these communicative practices occur with respect to specific exigencies of a diarist, and with respect to these specific exigencies, they differ in the type of argumentation that can be submitted in the writings. For the argumentative characterization of these practices, the concept of the communicative activity type introduced within a pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation is used. It is shown that distinguished diary-writing practices are differently conventionalized activity types that are preconditioned by implicit norms governing the conduct of argumentation.
{"title":"Three forms of internal negotiation through the activity of private diary-writing","authors":"I. Svačinová","doi":"10.1075/jaic.21014.sva","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.21014.sva","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper is focused on the practice of private diary-writing as an act of externalizing internal communication\u0000 from the point of view of the theory of argumentation. It is demonstrated that through diary-writing, various forms of internal\u0000 negotiation can be implemented. The paper sheds light on three ways internal negotiation is externalized through diary writing:\u0000 reflective diary writing, crisis diary writing and self-encouraging diary writing. It is shown that these communicative practices\u0000 occur with respect to specific exigencies of a diarist, and with respect to these specific exigencies, they differ in the type of\u0000 argumentation that can be submitted in the writings. For the argumentative characterization of these practices, the concept of the\u0000 communicative activity type introduced within a pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation is used. It is shown that\u0000 distinguished diary-writing practices are differently conventionalized activity types that are preconditioned by implicit norms\u0000 governing the conduct of argumentation.","PeriodicalId":41908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Argumentation in Context","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49655044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper develops an argumentative perspective on attacks in political election campaigns. The perspective highlights the role that attack ads play in the justification of vote claims aiming to advance our understanding of the notorious practice and to bring about a nuanced assessment of its benefits and risks. In the examination, special attention is paid to the argumentative potential that links a certain criticism of an adversary to the defense of the negative vote against the adversary as well as to the defense of the positive vote claim in favor of a campaign’s candidate. Considering the argumentative potential is especially beneficial for capturing the role of attacks in important political processes, including accountability and the stimulation of an informed public political participation.
{"title":"Negative campaigning","authors":"D. Mohammed","doi":"10.1075/jaic.21025.moh","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.21025.moh","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper develops an argumentative perspective on attacks in political election campaigns. The perspective\u0000 highlights the role that attack ads play in the justification of vote claims aiming to advance our understanding of the notorious\u0000 practice and to bring about a nuanced assessment of its benefits and risks. In the examination, special attention is paid to the\u0000 argumentative potential that links a certain criticism of an adversary to the defense of the negative vote against the adversary\u0000 as well as to the defense of the positive vote claim in favor of a campaign’s candidate. Considering the argumentative potential\u0000 is especially beneficial for capturing the role of attacks in important political processes, including accountability and the\u0000 stimulation of an informed public political participation.","PeriodicalId":41908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Argumentation in Context","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45110497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction","authors":"C. Andone, B. Garssen","doi":"10.1075/jaic.00016.cas","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.00016.cas","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Argumentation in Context","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42040758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper analyses and evaluates the use of arguments in which quotations are employed to convince the addressees of the acceptability of a proposed action. Based on the European Commission’s press releases, a communicative practice in which quotations are typically employed, the study demonstrates that quotations function as weak authority arguments that are not likely to be accepted by the addressees if they are not further supported by other argument types.
{"title":"Arguing through quotations","authors":"C. Andone","doi":"10.1075/jaic.21023.and","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.21023.and","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper analyses and evaluates the use of arguments in which quotations are employed to convince the addressees of the acceptability of a proposed action. Based on the European Commission’s press releases, a communicative practice in which quotations are typically employed, the study demonstrates that quotations function as weak authority arguments that are not likely to be accepted by the addressees if they are not further supported by other argument types.","PeriodicalId":41908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Argumentation in Context","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49602187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article starts from the observation that, in order to ensure their legitimacy, the modes of governance in place in most Western democracies make more room for citizen participation in decision-making processes. The result is the implementation of various participatory mechanisms, many of which seek to stimulate a citizen’s argumentative expression. Based on a case study (the public debate on a gold mine project in French Guiana), we observe the norms that govern such participation processes and their implementation in the argumentative exchanges.
{"title":"Prescribed argumentation, actual argumentation, reported argumentation","authors":"Ilaria Casillo, Marianne Doury","doi":"10.1075/jaic.21021.dou","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.21021.dou","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article starts from the observation that, in order to ensure their legitimacy, the modes of governance in\u0000 place in most Western democracies make more room for citizen participation in decision-making processes. The result is the\u0000 implementation of various participatory mechanisms, many of which seek to stimulate a citizen’s argumentative expression. Based on\u0000 a case study (the public debate on a gold mine project in French Guiana), we observe the norms that govern such participation\u0000 processes and their implementation in the argumentative exchanges.","PeriodicalId":41908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Argumentation in Context","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43518675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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