Studies in Normative Pragmatics

Authors

Justin Eckstein (ed)
Beth Innocenti (ed)
Jean Goodwin (ed)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22329/wsia.17.2026

Synopsis

Making arguments is an everyday activity and participants mostly manage it on their own. No referee enforces rules, and no audience is obliged to listen. Normative pragmatics begins from this observation and holds that arguers create the conditions for their own arguing. The approach to the study of argumentation explores how arguers use the ordinary resources of communication to cultivate a local normative terrain in which their arguments can be heard, assessed, and carry the persuasive force they deserve

Studies in Normative Pragmatics brings together, for the first time, canonical studies in normative pragmatics. Written over three decades, this edited collection brings together work from Mark Aakhus, Justin Eckstein, Jean Goodwin, Beth Innocenti, Sally Jackson, Scott Jacobs, Fred Kauffeld, and Jodi Schneider. An extended editorial introduction gives the first sustained account of the normative pragmatic approach to argumentation studies. This volume will serve scholars and students in argumentation theory, rhetoric, communication, philosophy, political science, and linguistics. Graduate students will find a coherent introduction to an approach that is otherwise scattered across three decades of journals, and established scholars will find the theoretical foundations set out in one place alongside the cases that generated them.

Chapters

  • Introduction
    Jean Goodwin, Beth Innocenti, Justin Eckstein
  • Rhetoric and Dialectic from the Standpoint of Normative Pragmatics
    Scott Jacobs
  • One Question, Two Answers
    Jean Goodwin
  • Presumptions and the Distribution of Argumentative Burdens in Acts of Proposing and Accusing
    Fred J. Kauffeld
  • Cicero's Authority
    Jean Goodwin
  • A Normative Pragmatic Model of Making Fear Appeals
    Beth Innocenti
  • Predicaments of Politicization in the Debate Over Abstinence-Only Sex Education
    Sally Jackson
  • Deliberation Digitized
    Designing Disagreement Space Through Communication-Information Services
    Mark Aakhus
  • Modeling the Invention of a New Inference Rule
    The case of 'Randomized Clinical Trial' as an argument scheme for medical science
    Sally Jackson, Jodi Schneider
  • The Persuasive Force of Demanding
    Beth Innocenti, Nichole Kathol
  • Designing Soundscapes for Argumentation
    Justin Eckstein
Book cover for Studies in Normative Pragmatics, part of the Windsor Studies in Argumentation series. The cover features a photograph of visitors standing in a shaded queue at the Thunder Mountain Railroad attraction. A translucent cream rectangle across the upper-middle contains the title in large serif type and the text “Edited by Justine Eckstein, Jean Goodwin, and Beth Innocenti.” A dark green band across the top reads “Windsor Studies in Argumentation.”

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September 4, 2026

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ISBN-13 (15)

978-1-998123-08-7

Date of first publication (11)

2026-09-04

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ISBN-13 (15)

978-1-998123-07-0

Date of first publication (11)

2026-09-06

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6mm x 9mm