Perspectives on argumentation

brief overview

Abstract

Aristotle's Rhetoric was taken up and given a new meaning by contemporary theories of argumentation. Each one of them appropriates this heritage in order to leverage, from the 1990s onwards an intense production of research. Currently, in a movement aimed at better understanding social discourses, especially polemics, the role of emotions in discourse, verbal violence, hate speeches, among others, we are witnessing the rescue of Aristotelian thought in argumentation issues, from a necessary dialogue with the works produced on the media and political discourse and, in particular, on the digital discourse. In this field, without intending to exhaust the subject, our purpose is to present in the article an overview of the studies in argumentation that circulate in contemporary research, in addition to shed light on the role of argumentation in this digital space, as well as in the configuration and in the circulation of these discourses.