The disguised abusive ad hominem empirically investigated: Strategic manoeuvring with direct personal attacks

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 344-364

  van Eemeren, Frans H ^a   Garssen, Bart ^a   Meuffels, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ad hominem; Authority argumentation; Critical questions; Pragma dialectics; Strategic manoeuvring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862308348     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546783.2012.678666     Document Type: Article

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