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T1 Argumentative Abduction in the Interpretation Process: A Pragma-Dialectical Study of an Ironic Utterance
T2 Abducción argumentativa en el proceso de interpretación: un estudio pragma-dialéctico de un enunciado irónico
A1 Duarte Calvo, Antonio Jaime
A2 van Eemeren, Frans
A2 Garssen, Bart
AB In deviations of intent, from that expressed by the standard or ordinary use of language, abductive reasoning necessarily plays an important role. In such cases, to cause the desired effect in the audience, the speaker usually utters some “mysterious” words and relies on the hearer’s abductive ability to solve the enigma. This abductive ability is mostly based on the interlocutors’ knowledge of the common dialogic framework, and both speaker and listener have to apply this reasoning to arrive at successful communication. Understanding this exchange as an argumentative process, this kind of “guessing” can be evaluated in a reasoned way. As a practical case, in this contribution, I analyze an ironic utterance from a pragma-dialectical perspective. By doing so, I propose that these kinds of hypotheses that are drawn up in the interpretation process could be evaluated in an argumentative way, as answering certain critical questions regarding the theoretical norms of extended pragma-dialectics.
PB Springer Nature
SN 978-3-030-28366-7
SN 978-3-030-28367-4
SN 1566-7650
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96799
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96799
LA eng
NO Duarte, A. (2020). Argumentative Abduction in the Interpretation Process: A Pragma-Dialectical Study of an Ironic Utterance. In: van Eemeren, F., Garssen, B. (eds) From Argument Schemes to Argumentative Relations in the Wild. Argumentation Library, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28367-4_13
DS Docta Complutense
RD 4 sept 2025