An Argumentative Analysis of the Emergence of Issues in Adult-Children Discussions.

• Superior document: Argumentation in Context Series ; v.19
• Author: Schär, Rebecca G.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2021.; {copy}2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Argumentation in Context Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (178 pages)

This book traces the issue in argumentative discussions from its emergence to its evolution. The book makes use of naturally occurred data of spoken argumentation to investigate how an issue is raised and possibly negotiated in argumentative discussions between young children (aged 2 to 6 years) and adults.

Table of Contents

Intro -- An Argumentative Analysis of the Emergence of Issues in Adult-Children Discussions -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Young children as rational interlocutors: A perspective on family argumentation -- Understanding young children's argumentation: An introduction by means of an anecdote -- Some notes for future research -- Advances in contextualized argumentation -- The opening of argumentative issues -- Funding -- References -- Chapter 1. The 'issue' in argumentative discussions between adults and young children -- Chapter 2. Argumentation theory -- 2.1 The notion of issue in argumentation literature -- 2.1.1 A historical literature review -- 2.1.1.1 On the treatment of the issue by ancient scholars from Greece and ancient Rome -- 2.1.1.2 The issue in Toulmin and Perelman &amp -- Olbrechts-Tyteca -- 2.1.1.3 The issue in the tradition of debates in the U.S. -- 2.1.1.4 The issue in contemporary approaches to argumentation -- 2.1.2 The issue in this work -- 2.1.3 Studies on the issue in argumentation -- 2.2 The pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation -- 2.2.1 The stages of an argumentative discussion -- 2.2.2 Reconstructing argumentative discussions -- 2.3 The Argumentum Model of Topics (AMT) -- 2.3.1 Reconstructing the relation between argument and standpoint -- 2.3.2 Analyzing implicit premises with the Argumentum Model of topics -- 2.4 A communication approach to context: The model of communication context -- Chapter 3. Perspectives on children's argumentation -- 3.1 Sociocultural developmental psychology -- 3.1.1 The thinking space -- 3.1.2 Children's argumentation from the perspective of sociocultural developmental psychology -- 3.2 Can and do young children argue?.

3.3 Previous applications and developments of the pragma-dialectical model to children's discussions -- 3.4 Children's argumentation in different informal contexts -- 3.4.1 Family argumentation -- Chapter 4. Children's argumentation within the family -- 4.1 Why it is important to define context to study argumentation and why it is difficult -- 4.2 Argumentation in family: A corpus description -- 4.2.1 Data processing: Transcription -- 4.2.2 The family as an interaction field -- 4.2.3 The common ground in a family -- 4.2.4 The frame in family discussions -- 4.2.5 Concluding remarks on the family as a context -- 4.3 Case selection -- Chapter 5. Case studies: The issue in young children's argumentation in family -- 5.1 A typology of the emergence of issues in adult-children discussions -- 5.1.1 Type 1A: A child problematizes something in an adult's utterance -- 5.1.1 Type 1A: A child problematizes something in an adult's utterance -- 5.1.1.1 The 'afraid' case -- 5.1.1.2 The 'ghost' case -- 5.1.2 Discussion of type 1A -- 5.1.3 Type 1B: A child problematizes something in an adult's utterance and opens up a sub-issue -- 5.1.3.1 The 'pirate' case -- 5.1.3.2 The 'drinking straw' case -- 5.1.4 Discussion of type 1B -- 5.1.5 Type 2A: An adult problematizes something in a child's utterance -- 5.1.5.1 The 'jigsaw' case -- 5.1.6 Discussion of type 2A -- 5.1.7 Type 2B: An adult problematizes something in a child's utterance and opens up a sub-issue -- 5.1.8 Type 3: A child problematizes something in a peer's utterance -- 5.1.8.1 The 'net' case -- 5.1.9 Discussion of type 3 -- 5.1.10 Type 4: A child puts forward a standpoint and an argument supporting that standpoint -- 5.1.10.1 The 'pencil sharpener' case -- 5.1.11 Discussion of type 4 -- 5.1.12 Type 5: An adult puts forward a standpoint and an argument supporting that standpoint.

5.2 Concluding remarks on the typology of the emergence of issues in adult-children discussions -- 5.2.1 Decentration in the typology of the emergence of issues in adult-children discussions -- Chapter 6. How issues develop during the discussion: The issue negotiation -- 6.1 The 'chocolate bar' case -- 6.2 The 'straw bale' case -- 6.3 Concluding remarks regarding the negotiation of the issue -- Chapter 7. The relation issue - endoxon -- 7.1 The 'memory game' case -- 7.2 The 'teeth' case -- 7.3 Concluding remarks on the relation issue - endoxon -- Chapter 8. Conclusions -- 8.1 On the emergence of argumentation in conversation -- 8.2 The relation between issue and endoxon -- 8.3 The interplay between the issue and the freedom rule -- 8.4 Take-aways of this research -- 8.4.1 Perspectives in argumentation -- 8.4.1.1 Adaptations of existing models of argumentation theory -- 8.4.2 Perspectives in psychology -- 8.4.3 Perspectives in education -- References -- Index.