Types of Dialogue, Dialectical Relevance, and Textual Congruity
Fabrizio Macagno · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2011
The purpose of this paper is to show how the new dialectical theory of dialogue types is connected to the explanation of fallacies and irrelevancies. The theory of dialogue types in the new dialectic is presented as a normative model that is useful to explain some fundamental aspects of argumentation. Dialogue types are analysed from the point of view of textual congruity and interlocutors’ goals. Using tools of the new dialectic like profiles of dialogue and common ground, it is shown how the model of dialogue types allows one to analyze the phenomena of dialectical shifts embeddings. It is then shown how these phenomena are needed to explain dialectical relevance.