Abstracts
Abstract
The paper discusses the role of systemic means of persuasion in argument evaluation. The core class of systemic means of persuasion is regress stoppers, whose fundamental function is to halt the infinite regress of justification by making claims more acceptable. The paper explores how systemic means of persuasion relate to the structure of arguments in the Toulmin model and function as persuasion cues that are typically processed heuristically. The study includes stylometric analysis and statistical data from three corpora, revealing these means as complementary to explicit argumentation. Observations and examples are drawn from an original corpus of competitive debates.
Keywords:
- argument evaluation,
- Awdiejew,
- computational linguistics,
- corpus of competitive debates,
- heuristic model of persuasion,
- regress stoppers,
- systemic means of persuasion,
- Toulmin,
- Toulmin model of argument
Résumé
L'article discute du rôle des moyens systémiques de persuasion dans l'évaluation des arguments. La classe centrale des moyens systémiques de persuasion est celle des freins à la régression, dont la fonction fondamentale est d’arrêter la régression infinie de justification en rendant les affirmations plus acceptables. L'article explore la façon dont les moyens systémiques de persuasion sont liés à la structure des arguments dans le modèle Toulmin et fonctionnent comme des indices de persuasion qui sont généralement traités de manière heuristique. L'étude comprend une analyse stylométrique et des données statistiques provenant de trois corpus, révélant que ces moyens sont complémentaires à l'argumentation explicite. Les observations et les exemples sont tirés d'un corpus original de débats compétitifs.
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