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Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue

Author

Ellen Breitholtz

Year

2021

Publisher

Brill

Type

BOOK

Category

Language Arts & Disciplines

Language

English

Pages

171

ISBN

978-9-00443-679-4

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09-Sep-2024

Keywords

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics

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In Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. The account draws on the concepts of enthymemes and topoi, originating in Aristotelian rhetoric and dialectic, and integrates these in a formal dialogue semantic account using TTR, a type theory with records. Argumentation analysis and formal approaches to reasoning often focus the logical validity of arguments on inferences made in discourse from a god’s-eye perspective. In contrast, Breitholtz’s account emphasises the individual perspectives of interlocutors and the function and acceptability of their reasoning in context. This provides an analysis of interactions where interlocutors have access to different topoi and therefore make different inferences.

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