Argumentation and Advocacy

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Latest documents

• Putting powerfulness in its place: a study on discursive style in public discussion and its impact.
• When good arguments do not work: post-dialectics, argument assemblages, and the networks of climate skepticism.
• Definitional argument: Nevada's commercial UAV debate and the case of threatened prosperity.
• Strategic maneuvering in dispute mediation.
• Ad hoc reviewers.
• Instagrams that wound: Punctum, visual enthymemes, and the visual argumentation of the Transportation Security Administration.
• Sound arguments.
• Bright lines or blurred lines? Universal background checks and the NRA slippery slope argument.
• Reinventing doxa: public opinion polling as deliberative discourse.
• Romney, Obama, and the 47%: gaffes and representative anecdotes in the 2012 presidential campaign.

Featured documents

• Manipulating emotions: value-based reasoning and emotive language.
• How much jail time? Returning women to the abortion debate.
• Making debate more inclusive for the student-veteran debater.
• Dick Gregory and activist style: identifying attributes of humor necessary for activist advocacy.
• The riot kiss: framing memes as visual argument.
• For what noble cause: Cindy Sheehan and the politics of grief in public spheres of argument.
• "I thought we settled this?!" Antecedents and consequences of resolution of an initial episode in a serial argument.
• Genesis in hyperreality: legitimizing disingenuous controversy at the creation museum.
• The debate authors working group model for collaborative knowledge production in forensics scholarship.
• A call for polycultural arguments: critiquing the monoculture rhetoric of the local food movement.