Reviewed Books

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Title: Pragmatics
Author: Stephen C. Levinson
Year: 1983
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0-521-29414-2
Pages: 423
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Title: Studies in Pragma-Dialectics
Editors: Frans H. van Eemeren & Rob Grootendorst
Publisher: Sic Sat, Amsterdam
Year: 1994
ISBN: 90-800777-5-5
Pages: 291

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Title: Histoire des théories de l’argumentation
Authors: Philppe Breton, Gilles Gauthier
Publisher: La Découverte
Year: 2000
ISBN: 2-7071-3175-X
Nr. Pages: 123

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Title: Semantic Mechanisms of Humor
Author: Victor Raskin
Year: 1985
Publisher: D. Reidel,
ISBN: 90-277-1821-0
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Title: Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse
Authors: Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst,
Sally Jackson, Scott Jacobs
Publisher: University of Alabama Press, Tuscalosa/London
Year: 1993
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Title: Logicomix,
An Epic Search for Truth
Authors: Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos H. Papadimitriou
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year: 2009
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Title: Pragmatics
Author: George Yule
Series Editor: H. G. Widdowson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1996
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Title: Dialog Theory for Critical
Argumentation
Author: Douglas Walton
Publisher: John Benjamins
Year: 2007
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Title: An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems
Author: Michael Woodrodge
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Year: 2002 (second edition)
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Title: Rhetorical Argumentation -
Principles of Theory and Practice
Author: Christopher W. Tindale
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Year: 2004
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Title: The Uses of Argument
Author: Stephen E. Toulmin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1958 [2003]

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Title: Slovenian Lectures -
Introduction into Argumentative Semantics
Author: Oswald Ducrot
(Editor: Igor Ž. Žagar)
Publisher: Pedagoški Inštitut
Year: 2009 [1996]
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Title: Predictably Irrational
Author: Dan Ariely
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
Year: 2008
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Title: Irony in Language and Thought
Editors: Raymond W. Gibbs, Herbert L. Colston
Year: 2007
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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Title: A Pragmatic Theory of Fallacy
Author: Douglas Walton
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Year: 1995
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Title: The Rhetoric of Rhetoric
Author: Wayne C. Booth
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Year: 2004
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Title: Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies –
A Pragma-Dialectical Perspective
Authors: Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst
Year: 1992
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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Title: Speech Acts in Argumentative Discussions
Authors: Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst
Publisher: Foris Publications
Year: 1984
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Title: Media Arguemtation: Dialectic, Persuasion and Rhetoric
Author: Douglas Walton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2007
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Author: Charles Leonard Hamblin
Title: Fallacies
Publisher: Vale Press
Year: 1970
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Authors: Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst
Title: A Systematic Theory of Argumentation –
The pragma-dialectical approach;
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2004
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Author: John R. Searle
Title: Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1969
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Author: John Langshaw Austin
Title: How to do things with words
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 1962
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Author: Chaïm Perelman
Title: The Realm of Rhetoric
Publisher: Univeristy of Notre Dame Press
Year:1982
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Author: Bryan Garsten
Title: Saving Persuasion:
Year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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