Implicit dialogical premises, explanation as argument: a corpus-based reconstruction

O'Halloran, Kieran (2009). Implicit dialogical premises, explanation as argument: a corpus-based reconstruction. Informal Logic, 29(1) pp. 15–53.

Abstract

This paper focuses on an explanation in a newspaper article: why new European Union citizens will come to the UK from Eastern Europe (e.g., because of available jobs). Using a corpus-based method of analysis, I show how regular target readers have been positioned to generate premises in dialogue with the explanation propositions, and thus into an understanding of the explanation as an argument, one which contains a biased conclusion not apparent in the text. Employing this method, and in particular ‘corpus comparative statistical keywords’, I show how two issues can be freshly looked at: implicit premise recovery; the argument/explanation distinction.

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• Item ORO ID
• 26114
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 0824-2577
• Keywords
• argument; corpus-based analysis; corpus comparative statistical keyword; cultural keyword; explanation; implicit dialogical premise recovery; plausible fuzzy reasoning
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
• Research Group
• Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET)
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• © 2009 The Author
• Depositing User
• Kieran O'Halloran