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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Argumentation Theory"”.
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Richard Rorty's pragmatism : implications for argumentation theory.
… argues that American pragmatism and contemporary argumentation theory have much in common. Nevertheless the similarities have not been exploited. Difficulties arise, however, in specifying pragmatism. Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey--the major founders of pragmatism--differed …
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Reasoning in criminal intelligence analysis through an argumentation theory-based framework
… analytical reasoning process and offers an argumentation theory-based framework as a means to support that reasoning process in software applications. Researchers have extensively researched specific areas of criminal intelligence analysts’ sensemaking and reasoning processes over the …
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Argumentation and artifacts for intelligent multi-agent systems
… software system is necessary and often hidden. Argumentation theory and logic make explicit non-monotonic information in order to enable automatic forms of reasoning under uncertainty. In human organization Distributed Cognition and Activity Theory explain how artifacts are fundamental in all …
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Effects of an argumentation-based instruction on grade 10 learners' understanding of the causes of pollution at a river site
… 2007) through using the theoretical framework of argumentation (Toulmin Argument Pattern) to the extent that learners would value the significance of both worldviews. This study sought to find the effects of an Argumentation-Based Instruction on grade 10 learners' understanding of the causes of …
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The Sensible Reason
… suggesting that sensible reasoning in argumentation is a process that imparts meaning and coherence to what is expressed, explaining both the argumentative levels and the process of persuasion within argumentation. The relevance of this contribution lies in its unique analysis, through …
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Argument Construction, Argument Evaluation, And Decision-Making: A Content Analysis Of Argumentation And Debate Textbooks
… processes. Previous studies have indicated that argumentation and debate instruction can improve critical thinking abilities, but there are reasons to believe that current approaches are not as effective at developing decision-making ability as they could be, in part because they focus too …
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Toward an Argumentation-based Dialogue framework for Human-Robot Collaboration
… dialogue. </p> <p>My research identifies three argumentation-based dialogues: a persuasion dialogue to resolve disagreement, an information-seeking dialogue to expand individual knowledge, and an inquiry dialogue to share knowledge. A theoretical logic-based framework, a formalized dialogue …
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A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of the Ideological Representations and Legitimation in the Salafi Discourse in Saudi Arabia (1980-2000).
… Wodak, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2007), social actor theory (van Leeuwen 1996, p. 32-70; 2008, pp. 23-54), corpus linguistics (Baker et al. 2008) and argumentation theory (Van Eemeren and Grootendorst 2004), I examine the most salient discursive features of semantic foci, social actor representation …
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The Efficacy of Different Analysis Algorithms for Summarizing Online Deliberations
… inspired by computational social choice theory and abstract argumentation theory, have recently been proposed. These algorithms seek to provide more representative (i.e. portraying all perspectives) and consistent (i.e. comments within a perspective do not oppose each other) summaries of …
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An analysis of pre-service teachers‘ ability to use a dialogical argumentation instructional model to solve mathematical problems in physics
… The findings emerged from the observation of argumentation skills employed by students in a physical science education classroom for pre-service high school teachers. Their task was to use the nature of arguments to solve mathematical problems of mechanics in a physics classroom. Forty …
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Resistance to change in UK universities : a Habermasian perspective
This thesis examines the potential for argumentation as a form of resistance management during change within the context of UK Higher Education Institutions. Resistance to change is an area that has received considerable attention, with many scholars attributing it as a significant reason why …
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Dialogical dynamics and argumentative structures in dispute mediation discourse
… data. As many research works have shown, argumentation deserves a particular attention in mediation since mediators must, at the same time, make sure that disputants effectively argue to reach an agreement, and preserve their neutral role.<br/><br/>The increasing visibility of mediation …
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Exploring the use of a dialogical argumentation instructional model to an assessment for learning tool when teaching natural science and technology in foundation phase
… conceptions when implementing Dialogical Argumentation Instructional Model (DAIMAL) to facilitate the teaching and learning of the foundation phase Life Skills Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS). It further sought to explain the perceptions, which foundation phase beginner …
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Explainable Argument Mining
… research in the analysis and understanding of argumentation, and drawing inspiration from the ways in which humans understand the structure of an argument.<br/><br/>The argument mining techniques presented here cover: a study of explicit linguistic expressions of the relationship between …
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Language Reasoning by means of Argument Mining and Argument Quality
… business studies confirm the crucial role of argumentation in financial communications, no work has addressed this problem as a computational argumentation task. In other words, the automatic analysis of arguments. In this regard, this thesis presents contributions in the three essential axes …
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Development of a Knowledge-Based Energy Damage for evaluating Industrialised Building Systems (IBS) Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Risk
… developing a model based on the concept of ‘argumentation theory’, which helps construction designers integrate the management of OHS risk into the design process. In addition, an ‘energy damage model’ was used as an underpinning framework. Development of the model was achieved through three …
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Leben als Artikulation : die anthropologische Ikonographie der Schriften von Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész ist 1929 in Budapest geboren und dort aufgewachsen. 1944 wurde er im Rahmen einer Judendeportation verhaftet und über Auschwitz in das KZ Buchenwald verbracht. Nach der Befreiung des Lagers 1945 kehrte er in seine Heimatstadt zurück, wo er seit 1953 als Schriftsteller und Übersetzer …
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Effects of a dialogical argumentation instructional model on grade 10 learners’ conceptions of lightning
The study employed a quasi-experimental design to determine the effect of DAIM on learners’ conceptions of lightning. The experimental group was taught using DAIM while the control group was taught the same content using TLM. Data was collected using the Science Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ), …
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Avaliação do modelo de gerenciamento da qualidade do sistema de mobilidade urbana pelo método da argumentação sistêmica: percepção de atores relevantes da região metropolitana de João Pessoa
O crescimento desordenado das cidades, atrelado à falta de planejamento e de gerenciamento urbano tem impedido o desenvolvimento sustentável da mobilidade urbana. A reversão desta tendência na direção da sustentabilidade passa pela integração da mobilidade urbana às demais políticas urbanas, com o …