DOI: 10.5507/ff.14.24440606.14

Linguistic Strategies of Offensive and Defensive Argumentation

Marie Krappmann

The article focuses on the analysis of the linguistic means of defensive and offensive argumentation in the dialogical form of argumentation. The theoretical basis for the analysis is the model developed by Harald Wohlrapp (2008). He defines the fundamental operations of asserting, reasoning and criticizing as a system of specific possibilities of moves and subsequent moves in dialogical argumentations. At the same time, the focus is on identifying various linguistic realizations of offensive strategies and avoidance maneuvers. A relatively prototypical example of a dialogical text type was chosen for the analysis of the argumentation process: an interview between Holger Stanislawski, long-time coach of the traditional German football club St. Pauli, and a reporter. The article pursues two basic goals: 1. to verify the thesis of Wohlrapp that the argumentation processes are realized in simple repetitive argumentation moves; 2. To prove the fact that the argumentation strategies could already be partially identified on the level of linguistic expression.

stránky: 195-210