Argumentation and Forensics

Argumentative Pathologies and Deliberative Legitimation Processes

This paper extends Patricia Roberts-Miller's work in "Deliberate Conflict" on different styles of argumentation. Drawing from her formulation of public argument as being either agonistic and deliberative,....

A Weaverian Standard of Ethical Argumentation: The Case of David Horowitz

The Credo of the American Forensics Association expresses our "commitment to argument expresses our faith in reason-giving as a key to that power." We must recognize,...

Engaging Iran: Competing Values in Argumentation and the Inability for the United States and Iran to Come to Diplomatic Terms

This paper explores the role of values in diplomatic discourse between Iran and the United States and suggests that the inability for these two countries to successfully negotiate is impeded by contrasting conceptions of the abstract value "national security."

Narrative Argumentation: Regarding Narrative as Argument and the Resulting Need for Developing Narrative Literacy Skills

Some communication studies scholars have extolled the virtues of narrative ways of knowing, while denying that narrative is a form of argumentation (e.g., Bochner, 1994; Bruner, 1996, 2002a; Gergen & Gergen, 2006; Pellegrino, 1977).

The Continued Importance of Walter Fisher's Narrative Paradigm: An Analysis of Fisher's Extant Work

In order to better assess the controversy surrounding his work, this paper analyzes the majority of literature discussing Walter Fisher's Narrative paradigm.