正Whereas classical work on argumentative schemes is preoccupied with the internal structures of sound argumentation, more recent developments in this field seem to be orientated to the acceptability of argumentation in terms of critical questions that may be set to the dements of the argumentative schemes employed in discourse. This shift of focus from the ideal towards the real is astep: in the right direction, but it has not gone far enough; there is one aspect which seems to have consistently been overlooked: the speaker’s role as user of argumentative schemes. Assuming that the productive facet of argumentation also has a role to play in evaluation of everyday argumentation, the present paper comes up with a new scheme: contradistinctive argumentation, and explores its use from the perspective of the speaker. Through an argumentative and socio-cultural analysis of two extracts from interview data, it is shown that the speaker’s choice of a particular scheme is (also) socio-culturally determined,
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