Persuading and dissuading by conditional argument

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 238-257

  Thompson, Valerie A ^a   Evans, Jonathan St B T ^b   Handley, Simon J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Argument; Conditional reasoning; Deduction; Dual process theory; Informal reasoning; Persuasion; Pragmatics

Indexed keywords

EID: 20744449160     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2005.03.001     Document Type: Article

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