This paper explores the challenges of using the Toulmin model to analyze students'
dialogical argumentation. The paper presents a theoretical exposition of what is involved in …

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 …

The relationship between argumentation and language has recently attracted a great deal of
attention through various publications in the field of argumentation studies (see eg, Boogaart …

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 …

Science and technology are essential components for every modern society. They offer the
base from which to promote economic growth and welfare. Developments and decisions …

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 …

Scholarship on the practical art of arguing has the good luck of inheriting from its subject a
rich native vocabulary for capturing what is going on. Still, this very richness can distract the …

Sound can be an argument. To make this claim, this essay eschews traditional formalist
definitions of argument in favor of Wayne Brockriede's perspectivism. I focus on how sound …

Feminist argumentation theorists have criticized the Dominant Adversarial Model in
argumentation, according to which arguers should take proponent and opponent roles and …

This paper offers an analysis of our ordinary concepts of presuming and presumption and of
their corresponding everyday practices. Scholars encounter 'presumption'in several …