The use of analogy in pro-life argumentation

The paper is concerned with how analogy is strategically used in pro-life argumentation on abortion. Pragma-dialectics (van Eemeren and Grootendorst 1992) offers a set of critical questions by means of which I will evaluate the use of the argumentation based on a relation of analogy in terms of dial...

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Main Author: Simona Mazilu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2012-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/the_use_of_analogy_in_pro-life_argumentation