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281Arguing about Muslims : reasonable argumentation in letters to the editorText and Talk 1 (27): 1-25. 2007.This article analyses letters to the editor written on or about Muslims printed in a British broadsheet newspaper. The pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation is applied as a model for explaining and understanding the arguments employed in the sampled letters. Our presentation of pragma-dialectical theory focuses on argumentative reasonableness. More specifically, we introduce the four dialectical stages through which any argument must pass and explain the ten rules of critical discussion tha…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
20th Century Philosophy |