Argumentation in Complex Communication - Managing Disagreement in a Polylogue

A pervasive aspect of human communication and sociality is argumentation: making and criticizing reasons in the context of doubt and disagreement. This book offers an innovative theoretical framework for analyzing, evaluating, and designing polylogues, understood as practices of managing disagreements among multiple positions, players, and places.

List of contents

Part I. Seeking, Seeing, and Embracing Polylogue: 1. Seeking polylogue; 2. The Dyadic reduction; 3. Seeing polylogue; 4. Embracing polylogue. Part II. Analyzing, Evaluating, and Designing Polylogue. 5. Descriptive analysis of polylogues; 6. Normative evaluation of polylogues; 7. Prescriptive design of polylogues. 8. Conclusion.

About the author

Marcin Lewi¿ski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and the Nova Institute of Philosophy, Nova University of Lisbon. His research applying philosophical concepts to the study of public argumentation has been published in journals, edited volumes and special issues (e.g. Environmental Argumentation, 2019).

Product details

• Authors: Aakhus Mark, Marcin (Nova University Lisbon Lewinski, Marcin Lewiński
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781009274395
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0927439-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Anthropology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Sociolinguistics