When we hear the word "argument", what it just come to our mind is shouting and quarrels. That is what we normally have seen in our external society, but is it just means squabbles, abuse, and yelling? That is what I have studied throughout this week. It was something different from what I normally know. With good explanations, now I have gotten a good idea about the argument. In here I hope to build an argument to make you understand that an argument is not just a yelling and shouting. And I want to prove you that undermining others is not meant by an argument. The language we use in an argument, it decides the direction of the argument.
1. INTRODUCTION
I expect you to describe about argument using this article. My topic is βhave you ever made an argument in proper language?β and I am going to discuss about what is an argument? How it builds up? With whom we are going to have arguments? The purpose of the argument, and how to use the language to argue. Using my own experience, I will explain you about justification of an argument. By the end of the article, you will have a clear idea about arguments.
2. MONTY PYTHON AND ME
Whenever I heard the word argument, my mind is filled with quarrels or squabbles as we just imagine about shouting, yelling, name calling etc.
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2.1 WHAT IS AN ARGUMENT?
According to the Monty Python, an argument is a connected series of sentences, statements, or propositions (premises) that are intended to give a reason of some kind for a sentence, statement, or proposition (Conclusion).
2.2 WITH WHOM ARGUMENTS ARE DEVELOPED?
Sometimes we want to make an argument to make other people believe that what we believe, but it does not mean hypnotizing others. And sometimes we make arguments with ourselves, when we need to find good reason to believe or to do something. Those are called impersonal normative justifications.
3. PURPOSE OF THE ARGUMENT
The main purpose of the argument is to give reasons. We can divide this main purpose into two sub purposes. Those are justification and explanation.
3.1 ARGUMENT EXPERIENCE
Here I hope to share my personal experience as an example for the argument. When an election is occurring, I have to face a trouble, when trying to decide which political candidate should I vote for? In this case I can make an argument not only with others but also with myself. Then, I must find premises about candidates' contributions and consider each premises carefully and eventually I should come to a reasonable conclusion.
4. LANGUAGE
Language is a system of communication. Even though now we have language with words, earlier the man had a symbolic language. Best example is Egyptian's Symbolic Language.
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4.1 LANGUAGE & ARGUMENTS
Arguments depend on language. Without handling a language, we cannot make arguments. The important thing is, language is not arbitrary, though it is conventional.
4.2 TYPES OF CONVENTIONS
When considering about the language, it has various types of conventions. They are called as linguistic acts, speech acts and conversational acts. These each act relate to governing rules. We will tabulate them for easy understanding.
|
Act |
Linguistic
|
Speech |
Conversational |
|
What
does the act mean? |
l Basic acts need to make anything part of language. l Saying something meaningful in a language |
l A person makes saying something. l Indicated by the different verbs found in explicit
performatives |
l Persuade someone to something. l What is the speakerβs act according to the
listenerβs effect |
|
Governing
Rules |
l Semantic rules (definitions) l Syntactic rules (in grammar) |
l About special agents, circumstances relevant to
various kind of speech acts |
l Gricean Four Conversational Rules (Cooperative
Principle) l Quantity, quality, relevance, manner |
5. CONCLUSION
We have discussed about arguments here. As now you know the purpose of the argument is justification and explanation. We can make arguments with others and with ourselves too. Arguments are exactly based on language and for making an argument a success we should be able to handle a language in an efficient manner. Hereafter I hope you will be able to make an argument in proper language.
REFERENCES
[1] Sinnott-Armstrong, W. and Fogelin, R.J., 2014. Cengage Advantage Books: Understanding arguments: An introduction to informal logic. Cengage Learning.
[2]
WRTG.
Purpose of Argument. (2020). Retrieved on June 11 from https://www.umgc.edu/current-students/learning-resources/writing-center/online-guide-to-writing/tutorial/chapter8/ch8-04.html
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