FRANS H. VAN EEMEREN is President of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) and the International Learned Institute of Argumentation Studies (ILIAS), Emeritus Professor of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric at the University of Amsterdam, Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association (U.S.) and Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Lugano (Switzerland). He is a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam and Guest Professor at Leiden University, Jiangsu University, Sun-yat Sen University and Zhejiang University. Van Eemeren is a Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion. He is the founder of the Pragma-Dialectical theory of argumentation and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Argumentation, the Journal of Argumentation in Context and the accompanying book series Library of Argumentation and Argumentation in Context. The monographs he (co)authored include Speech Acts in Argumentative Discussions (1984), Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies (1992), Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse (1993), A Systematic Theory of Argumentation (2004), Argumentative Indicators in Discourse (2007), Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness (2009), Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse (2010), Handbook of Argumentation Theory (2014), Reasonableness and Effectiveness in Argumentative Discourse (2015) and Prototypical Argumentative Patterns in Discourse (2017).

Offers an introduction into argumentation theory viewed from a novel perspective

Coverage creates an interdisciplinary pragma-dialectical perspective

Provides readers with a better and more complete understanding of argumentative discourse

Chapter 1. Argumentation theory as a discipline.- Chapter 2. Building a theory of argumentation.- Chapter 3. A model of a critical discussion.- Chapter 4. Critical discussion and the identification of fallacies.- Chapter 5. Descriptive studies of argumentative discourse.- Chapter 6. Analysis as resolution-oriented reconstruction.- Chapter 7. Strategic manoeuvring in argumentative discourse.- Chapter 8. Distinguishing between different kinds of argumentative practices.- Chapter 9. Prototypical argumentative patterns.- Chapter 10. Pragma-dialectics amidst other approaches to argumentation.