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Interpersonal Argumentation in Educational and Professional Contexts

  • Provides a comprehensive overview of the interpersonal argumentative processes involved in educational and professional contexts
  • Identifies context-dependent differences and similarities in the ways in which argumentative interactions are managed by individuals
  • Broadens our understanding of how interpersonal dimensions affect construction of knowledge and skills
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Imaginary Scenarios as Resources to Argue for Treatment Advice in Cancer Consultations

    • Francesca Alby, Marilena Fatigante, Cristina Zucchermaglio
    Pages 183-195
  3. Argumentation in Dialogue: Final Conclusions

    • Antonio Iannaccone, Francesco Arcidiacono
    Pages 201-218
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 219-223

About this book

This book provides a comprehensive overview of empirical studies based on various approaches devoted to examining the interpersonal argumentative processes involved in different contexts. It also identifies context-dependent similarities and differences in the ways in which argumentative interactions are managed by individuals in a range of educational and professional settings.
How can some forms of negotiation, change and debate result from engaging in interpersonal processes during argumentation? How do interpersonal dimensions affect the interdependencies between argumentative exchanges and construction of knowledge and skills? The book clarifies these open questions by providing a discussion of theoretical and empirical issues at the forefront of research, in order to provide a view of how interpersonal argumentation in educational and professional contexts is actually questioned and investigated.
It offers readers an opportunity to discover the crucial importance of an in-depth understanding of the role and functions played by the interpersonal dynamics within argumentative interactions occurring in a wide range of educational and professional contexts.

Editors and Affiliations

  • HEP-BEJUNE, University of Teacher Education, Biel, Switzerland

    Francesco Arcidiacono

  • (USI), Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

    Antonio Bova

About the editors

Professor Francesco Arcidiacono, Director of the Research Department at the University of Teacher Education (HEP-BEJUNE) of
Biel/Bienne (Switzerland); Lecturer at the Institute of psychology and education, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland)


Dr Antonio Bova, Swiss National Science Foundation Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the Utrecht University (The Netherlands); Lecturer at the Franklin University Switzerland (Switzerland)

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Interpersonal Argumentation in Educational and Professional Contexts

  • Editors: Francesco Arcidiacono, Antonio Bova

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59084-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59083-7Published: 21 July 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86543-0Published: 04 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59084-4Published: 11 July 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 223

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Educational Psychology, Professional & Vocational Education, Language Education

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Softcover Book USD 119.99
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