Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of Speech Communication
First Advisor
Francis P. Gibson
Date of Publication
1980
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (M.S.) in Speech Communication
Department
Speech Communication
Language
English
Subjects
Logic, Reasoning, Oral Communication, Stephen Edelston Toulmin
DOI
10.15760/etd.3155
Physical Description
1 online resource (343 p.)
Abstract
In 1958 Stephen E. Toulmin wrote of inadequacies of formal logic and proposed a new field-dependent approach to the analysis of arguments. Despite a generally negative response to his proposal from formal logicians, Toulmin's model for the laying out of arguments for analysis was subsequently appropriated by several speech communication textbook writers. In some textbooks, the Toulmin model has become successor to the syllogism as the paradigm of logical argument. Yet, perhaps due to their seemingly uncritical acceptance of Toulmin's approach there appears to be serious disagreement and confusion among speech communication professionals about the nature and applications of the Toulmin model. Towards a resolution of this problem, this study provides a descriptive analysis and assessment of the history of the Toulmin model and its proposed applications to speech communication.
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Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/18310
Recommended Citation
Sweeney, Jeffrey Robert, "The status in 1980 of the Toulmin model of argument in the area of speech communication" (1980). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 3164.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.3155
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