This paper presents a normative pragmatics analysis of students' use of science content in
eight socioscientific group discussions about human gene therapy. The specific focus of the …

Abstract Work in Argumentation Studies (AS) and Studies in Expertise and Experience
(SEE) has been proceeding on converging trajectories, moving from resistance to expert …

This paper explores how students invoked different conceptions of 'nature'in eight socio-
scientific group discussions about human gene therapy. The paper illustrates and discusses …

Letting students deliberate on socio-scientific issues is a tricky affair. It is yet unclear how to
assess whether, or even support that, students weave science facts into value-laden socio …

The broad nature of the issues concerning argumentation—ranging from the philosophical
problematic of rationality and the relationship with the other, to the dynamics of sociability …

Is appealing to emotions in argumentation ever legitimate and, if so, what is the best way to
analyze and evaluate such appeals? After overviewing a normative pragmatic perspective …

Despite a sense of familiarity casually assumed in their mutual perceptions, pragmatics and
rhetoric remain estranged from each other, and “the notion of rhetoric and its relation to …

The traditional concepts of rhetorical strategy and argumentative fallacy cannot be readily
reconciled. Doing so requires escaping the following argument: All argumentation involves …

How do social actors get addressees to stop retreating to metadiscussions that derail ground-
level discussions, and why do they expect the strategies to work? The question is of both …

Can style or presentational devices reasonably compel us to believe, agree, act? I submit
that they can, and that the normative pragmatic project explains how. After describing a …