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  • Chapter 3 - Seeing Polylogue

  • from Part I - Seeking, Seeing, and Embracing Polylogue
  • Marcin Lewiński, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal, Mark Aakhus, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    Argumentation in Complex Communication
    Published online:
    22 February 2023
    Print publication:
    22 December 2022, pp 58-88

  • Summary

    This chapter develops the crucial starting points for an inquiry into argumentation as polylogue. A framework is advanced that foregrounds polylogue as the natural state of affairs for argumentation. The framework elaborates how argument is embedded in communication and communication in activity, how argumentation is for communication, and how argumentation is a source of communicative innovation for polylogue. This profoundly social view of argumentation grounds the idea that polylogues are disagreement management practices in which various players pursue their contrasting positions across multiple places. A polylogue framework offers a new social ontology of argument in complex communication that fundamentally shifts descriptive, normative, and prescriptive attention to how contexts for argumentation are made via interaction and how argument is implicated in broader chains of social action and cognition. The polylogue framework thus scaffolds the discovery, analysis, and design of argumentative structures and functions for a much wider range of discourses, messages, interactions, technologies, and institutions.