Recently added articles from Argumentation and Advocacy:
Appealing to the brooding spirit of the law: good and evil in landmark judicial dissents.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... When considering the role of judicial dissent, Chief Justice Hughes (1936) once wrote that "A dissent in a court of last resort is an appeal to the brooding spirit of law, to the intelligence of a future day when a later decision may possibly correct the error into which the dissenting ...
Three objections to the epistemic theory of argument rebutted.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... EPISTEMIC THEORIES OF ARGUMENT: AN OVERVIEW The epistemic theory of argument is the view that arguments are to be evaluated in terms of their comprising epistemic reasons. This is to say, good arguments are those that are conducive of or pursuant of knowledge. Epistemic theories ...
Proleptic argumentation.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Proleptic argumentation, as defined in this paper, refers to the anticipation and answering of an objection or opposed argument before one's opponent has actually put it forward. As shown in the paper, proleptic argumentation can be inappropriate, or even illegitimate in some instances, ...
The language of argumentation in Dutch.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In principle, all languages have their own ways of expressing the concepts that are pertinent to dealing with argumentation and discussion. Depending on the languages that are being compared there may be striking structural similarities but there can also be differences that point to ...
Judging the Supreme Court: Construction of Motives in Bush v. Gore.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Judging the Supreme Court: Construction of Motives in Bush v. Gore. By Clarke Rountree. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2007; pp. xvi + 510. $79.95 cloth. It has been almost two decades since Gerald Wetlaufer (1990) argued that the rhetoric of law "relies, above ...
Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory. By Francis J. Mootz III. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. 256 pp. $49.50 cloth. I am always grateful for any attempt to revitalize the important historical and cotemporary connections between the ...
Outlines of a theory of visual argument.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2007; ... In 1996, Argumentation and Advocacy published a special double issue on visual argument. Ten years later, this new special issue charts some of the progress made in our understanding of visual argument, presents state-of-the-art papers exploring visual argument, and points the way to new ...
Aristotle's classical enthymeme and the visual, argumentation of the twenty-first century.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2007; ... Contemporary society is filled with a variety of complex visual images. In paintings and sculptures, movies, magazines, television programs, commercial and political advertisements, and World Wide Web sites, visual communication is "pervasive in everyday discourse" (Groarke, 1996, p. 105) ....
Visual argumentation in Scandinavian political advertising: a cognitive, contextual and reception oriented approach.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2007; ... On November 15, 2001, the Danish right wing liberal party, Venstre, published an advertisement that caused offence and debate in Denmark and was criticised internationally. All the commotion, of course, stems from the advertisement's visual argumentation. But what exactly is its argument? ...
Hard cases: prison tattooing as visual argument.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2007; ... <Pre>As I moved through the prison with my cameras, I became fascinatedwith the tattoos. I saw thousands of them .... A few times, Iencountered Justice. She was patterned after the traditionalfigure, blindfolded and holding her simple scales. I questioned aconvict in ...
Seeing the visual in argumentation: a rhetorical analysis of UNICEF Belgium's Smurf public service announcement.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2007; ... In the fall of 2005, the United Nations Children's Fund, better known as UNICEF, took a different approach to pleading for donations. They created a public service announcement (PSA) illustrating the horrors of war by using ... Smurfs. This PSA was used in an effort to raise $150,000 to ...
Visual argument in intercultural contexts: perspectives on folk/traditional art.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2007; ... In a germinal 1996 issue of Argumentation and Advocacy, communication scholars established that images can argue. Among the theoretical foundations put in place was the following: So far, we have suggested three prerequisites for a satisfactory account of visual argument: we ...
Flag waving as visual argument: 2006 immigration demonstrations and cultural citizenship.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2007; ... From March through May, 2006, massive demonstrations, rallies, and protests regarding immigration debates in Congress and the media occurred in many cities and towns throughout the United States. The first major rally took place on Saturday, March 25, 2006, when an estimated 500,000 people ...
Seeing the mind in the matter: functional brain imaging as framed visual argument.(Report)
Dec 22, 2007; ... In June, 2003, Newsweek devoted a special issue to what its cover boldly proclaimed were "Inventions that Will Change the World." Along with quantum cryptography, designer babies, and rain-producing machines, functional brain imaging was pegged as one of ten inventions poised to impact ...