Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure: Implications for Learnability offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. Much contemporary work in linguistics and psychology assumes that argument structure is strongly constrained by a set of universal principles, and that these principles are innate, providing children with certain bootstrapping strategies that help them hone in on basic aspects of the syntax and lexicon of their language.
Argument was the basis of Renaissance education; both rhetoric and
dialectic permeated early modern humanist culture, including drama.
This study approaches Shakespeare's history plays by analyzing the use
of argument in the plays and examining the importance of argument in
Renaissance culture.
How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic by Madsen Pirie
This is the book your friends will wish you hadn't
read, a witty and infectious guide to arguing successfully. Each entry
deals with one fallacy, explaining what the fallacy is, giving and
analysing an example, outlining when/where/why the particular fallacy
tends to occur and finally showing how you can perpetrate the fallacy
on other people in order to win an argument. Originally published to
great acclaim in 1985 as "The Book of Fallacy", this is a classic
brought up-to-date for a whole new generation. (amazon.co.uk)
