Argument Analysis: Components of Interpersonal Argumentation

  • Authors:
  • Katarzyna Budzynska

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Philosophy, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2010
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The aim of the paper is to propose a robust model of interpersonal argumentation (IP). The IP-arguments directly address participants of communication, i.e. they refer to speech acts rather than to propositional contents. Argumentation theory recognizes several IP-arguments, e.g. argument from position to know or ad hominem arguments. The model proposed in the paper enables to describe references to different types of speech acts --not only assertives, but also commissives and directives. The IP-arguments are assumed to be warranted by the component of authorizing an agent to perform a given speech act. Consequently, the wider class of IP-communication can be expressed in the extended model, such as e.g. the structure of generic ad hominem can be explicitly represented as the undercutter.