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01.06.2016

Advancing Polylogical Analysis of Large-Scale Argumentation: Disagreement Management in the Fracking Controversy

verfasst von: Mark Aakhus, Marcin Lewiński

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Abstract

This paper offers a new way to make sense of disagreement expansion from a polylogical perspective by incorporating various places (venues) in addition to players (parties) and positions (standpoints) into the analysis. The concepts build on prior implicit ideas about disagreement space by suggesting how to more fully account for argumentative context, and its construction, in large-scale complex controversies. As a basis for our polylogical analysis, we use a New York Times news story reporting on an oil train explosion—a significant point in the broader controversy over producing oil and gas via hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

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Johnson (2002, p. 41) and Leff (2006, p. 203, n. 2) both make a similar argument in their analysis of this case. Indeed, looking from the perspective of the strategic objectives of a modern corporation, the entire argumentation in Shell’s advertorial is eventually subordinate to its claim of “future economic success”. Shell is addressing various stakeholders with complex argumentation, stating that they are a growing and socially responsible company which, therefore, is worth dealing with, whether as an investor, government, business partner, community member, activist, or customer.
 
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In an endnote, Tindale himself recognizes that “we can imagine other interested subgroups”, and mentions Shell’s competitors and Nigerian expatriates opposing the government (1999, p. 215, n. 1).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Advancing Polylogical Analysis of Large-Scale Argumentation: Disagreement Management in the Fracking Controversy
verfasst von
Mark Aakhus
Marcin Lewiński
Publikationsdatum
01.06.2016
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Argumentation / Ausgabe 1/2017
Print ISSN: 0920-427X
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-8374
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-016-9403-9

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