Credible as Evidence? Multilayered Audience Reception of Narrative Arguments

Credible as Evidence? Multilayered Audience Reception of Narrative Arguments

Building on a view of both narration and argumentation as dynamic concepts, this paper considers ways of assessing the credibility of narrative arguments constructed in empirical examples of conversational discourse. I argue that the key in any such exercise is to pay close attention to both struct...

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Main Author: Jarmila Bubikova-Moan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2021-06-01
Series:Informal Logic
Online Access:https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/6506
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spelling doaj-05e765158c3747e99566d8159774cf5c2021-06-02T17:00:06ZengUniversity of WindsorInformal Logic0824-25772293-734X2021-06-0141210.22329/il.v41i2.6506Credible as Evidence? Multilayered Audience Reception of Narrative ArgumentsJarmila Bubikova-Moan0Kristiania University College Building on a view of both narration and argumentation as dynamic concepts, this paper considers ways of assessing the credibility of narrative arguments constructed in empirical examples of conversational discourse. I argue that the key in any such exercise is to pay close attention to both structural and pragmatic details, particularly how conversational storytelling gets embedded in the surrounding discourse and how the way this is discursively accomplished vis-à-vis the narrators’ multilayered audience may be reflective of their argumentative goals. https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/6506
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title_short Credible as Evidence? Multilayered Audience Reception of Narrative Arguments
title_full Credible as Evidence? Multilayered Audience Reception of Narrative Arguments
title_fullStr Credible as Evidence? Multilayered Audience Reception of Narrative Arguments
title_full_unstemmed Credible as Evidence? Multilayered Audience Reception of Narrative Arguments
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description Building on a view of both narration and argumentation as dynamic concepts, this paper considers ways of assessing the credibility of narrative arguments constructed in empirical examples of conversational discourse. I argue that the key in any such exercise is to pay close attention to both structural and pragmatic details, particularly how conversational storytelling gets embedded in the surrounding discourse and how the way this is discursively accomplished vis-à-vis the narrators’ multilayered audience may be reflective of their argumentative goals.
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