Qualitative Research Methods in Argumentation Studies

Corina Andone, Marianne Doury, Sara Greco, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Menno Reijven

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040634615
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This book explores the core principles, related theories, and conventions of qualitative research methods within the field of argumentation studies.

In each chapter, contributors identify and contextualize various issues that a qualitative researcher in Argumentation is likely to encounter, and offer clear solutions. In doing so, the book provides a set of guidelines, instruments, and recommendations that enable readers to effectively conduct research and analyze arguments. Furthermore, the book presents discussions of the ethics, validity, and reliability of qualitative research methods, as well as the intersections between qualitative and quantitative approaches. Looking to the future, chapters explore what the field could learn from other disciplines and how research could better integrate alternative data sources.

Providing a detailed outline of qualitative data analysis and interpretation, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of argumentation studies, communication studies, rhetoric, and linguistics.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsement Page
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• Introduction: doing empirical qualitative research in argumentation
• 1 Descriptive and analytical qualitative research of argumentative discourse
• 2 Theoretical concepts and argumentative practice
• 3 Grappling with the descriptive and normative dimension of argumentation
• 4 Developing corpora through data mining for qualitative argumentation research
• 5 A cognitive framework for the analysis of argumentation
• 6 Studying argumentation as social interaction
• 7 Approaching social media argumentation from a linguistics-informed perspective: methodological aspects
• 8 Analyzing the linguistic dimension of argumentative texts
• 9 Analysing multimodal argumentation: theoretical and methodological considerations
• 10 Considering argumentation in context
• 11 Political discourse and argumentation: qualitative approaches
• 12 The ethics of qualitative research in argumentation
• Index