We discuss the strategy of using dyslogistic terms in a novel, laudatory manner, or eulogistic terms pejoratively. By such up- and downgrading of evaluative terms the proponent of a standpoint may attempt to turn the tables in a public controversy: what formerly looked like a bad argument comes to be regarded as a strong one, or vice versa. Is this a licit strategy? We take our lead from Macagno and Walton who examined evaluative words from an argumentative stance
In constructing semantic theories of normative and evaluative terms, philosophers have commonly depl...
AbstractWhy would we argue about taste, norms or morality when we know that these topics are relativ...
A recent quarrel over faultless disagreements assumes that disputes over evaluative sentences should...
We discuss the strategy of using dyslogistic terms in a novel, laudatory manner, or eulogistic terms...
We discuss the strategy of using dyslogistic terms in a novel, laudatory manner, or eulogistic terms...
This paper uses argumentation tools to show by means of analyzing nine cases from law and politics h...
Evaluative and normative terms and concepts are often said to be "essentially contestable". This not...
Cantankerous conflicts and debilitating debates characterize the disorderly development of policy ev...
International audienceThis study deals with evaluative adjectives in French academic writing in the ...
This paper studies the way in which evaluative modality is used in argumentative discourse. The aim ...
The present work examined the extent to which evaluations of actions could be biased by the strategi...
Evaluative adjectives like stupid, smart, silly, and rude have been recognized as a coherent syntact...
This paper documents some of the linguistic resources used to construct evaluation and argumentation...
This paper uses argumentation tools to show by means of analyzing nine cases from law and politics h...
This paper argues that some words are so highly charged with meaning by a community that they may pr...
In constructing semantic theories of normative and evaluative terms, philosophers have commonly depl...
AbstractWhy would we argue about taste, norms or morality when we know that these topics are relativ...
A recent quarrel over faultless disagreements assumes that disputes over evaluative sentences should...
We discuss the strategy of using dyslogistic terms in a novel, laudatory manner, or eulogistic terms...
We discuss the strategy of using dyslogistic terms in a novel, laudatory manner, or eulogistic terms...
This paper uses argumentation tools to show by means of analyzing nine cases from law and politics h...
Evaluative and normative terms and concepts are often said to be "essentially contestable". This not...
Cantankerous conflicts and debilitating debates characterize the disorderly development of policy ev...
International audienceThis study deals with evaluative adjectives in French academic writing in the ...
This paper studies the way in which evaluative modality is used in argumentative discourse. The aim ...
The present work examined the extent to which evaluations of actions could be biased by the strategi...
Evaluative adjectives like stupid, smart, silly, and rude have been recognized as a coherent syntact...
This paper documents some of the linguistic resources used to construct evaluation and argumentation...
This paper uses argumentation tools to show by means of analyzing nine cases from law and politics h...
This paper argues that some words are so highly charged with meaning by a community that they may pr...
In constructing semantic theories of normative and evaluative terms, philosophers have commonly depl...
AbstractWhy would we argue about taste, norms or morality when we know that these topics are relativ...
A recent quarrel over faultless disagreements assumes that disputes over evaluative sentences should...