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- Title
Oral Argumentation Skills between Process and Product.
- Authors
Luginbühl, Martin; Müller-Feldmeth, Daniel
- Abstract
Oral argumentation skills have become a 'hot topic' within pragmatic language acquisition research as well as didactical research. In this study, we first discuss characteristics specific to oral argumentation which, compared to written argumentation, has its own mediality and therefore specific requirements. To reconstruct different levels of oral argumentation skills of school children in grades 2, 4 and 6, we collected a corpus of 180 peer discussions without adult supervision and analyzed them based on conversation analysis. In our case study we compare two conversations in terms of different modalizations and epistemic stances in positionings and justifications and briefly show how the use of modalizations can shape both the character as well as the argumentative structure of a conversation. We argue that process-related and stylistic conversational aspects beyond structural aspects in a narrow sense shape oral argumentation to a high degree and therefore belong to the core aspects of oral argumentation skills.
- Subjects
PRAGMATICS; LANGUAGE acquisition; SCHOOL children; JUSTIFICATION (Theory of knowledge) in children; CONVERSATION analysis
- Publication
Languages, 2022, Vol 7, Issue 2, p139
- ISSN
2226-471X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/languages7020139