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In public and political practice, argumentation involves verbal manipulations, which have not been sufficiently studied in modern argumentation theory. This paper proposes to analyse such manipulations as speech acts, by means of the pragmadialectical theory of argumentation.

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Ilatov, Z.Z. Manipulations in argumentation. Argumentation 7, 359–367 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00710818

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