The Culture of Spoken Arguments

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37 arguments were selected by random sampling methods from calls to radio and television phone-in programs. I discuss whether my general theory of inference evaluation applies to them and how frequently they exemplify a recognized argument scheme. I also compare their dependence on context, their complexity and their quality to those features of a previously studied sample of 50 scholarly arguments.

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Inference Claims.David Hitchcock - 2011 - Informal Logic 31 (3):191-229.
Appeals to Considerations.David Hitchcock - 2013 - Informal Logic 33 (2):195-237.
Non-logical Consequence.David Hitchcock - 2009 - Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 16 (29).
Informal Logic: A 'Canadian' Approach to Argument.Federico Puppo (ed.) - 2019 - Windsor, Canada: Windsor Studies in Argumentation.

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Enthymematic Arguments.David Hitchcock - 1985 - Informal Logic 7 (2).

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