Pragma-dialectics and Argumentative Indicators

Abstract

         This study deals with pragma-dialectics and  types of argumentative indicators. Pragma-dialectics is an approach of argumentative discourse which combines the pragmatic and the dialectical aspects of communication.                                                                                                     

     The study is concerned with the types of the argumentative indicators are divided into the indicators of confrontation, opening, argumentation, and concluding stages. The argumentative indicators of confrontation stage are divided into propositional attitude, force modifying, and dispute indicators. The argumentative indicators of argumentation stage are the indicators of subordinative, coordinative, cumulative, complementary, and multiple argumentations.