This paper outlines a non-exhaustive inventory of presumptive argument schemes that can be used by legislators to rationally argue for and against the legitimacy of legislative ends. The inventory has both a descriptive ...

The objective of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of the systematic instruction of argumentative discourse in assisting English as a second language (ESL) students of the University of Costa Rica (UCR) in developing ...

The United Kingdom electorate chose to vote in favour of leaving the European Union in the so-called Brexit referendum held on 23rd June 2016. This referendum had an exhaustive campaign covered by the media, where most of ...

En un amplio contexto de investigación, el presente estudio abarca los dominios de, por un lado, el análisis interdisciplinario del discurso y, por otro lado, el de la lingüística aplicada. El estudio estaba destinado a ...

The present study is intended to research into intermediate TEFL students’ development of their ability to use some of the basic argumentative writing resources that they are expected to develop as part of their academic ...

The purpose of this thesis is to verify, according to the theoretical assumptions of Discourse Analysis of French tradition, the Pentecostal discourse of televangelism Victory in Christ. This work will aim its constituent ...