Choosing variants of pragmatic argumentation in anticipation of countermoves in health brochures
Year: 2011
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In this paper, I will determine the strategic function of the use of four variants of pragmatic argumentation in the context of advisory health brochures. I argue that each variant functions as a strategic manoeuvre that deals with potential countermoves: with variant I and II writers can address anticipated doubt with respect to the standpoint and with variants III and IV they can strategically erase potential criti-cism or possible alternatives to the proposed action
Authors: van Poppel, Lotte, Carozza, Linda
Institutions: University of Amsterdam, University of Windsor
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2114412023