Eliza Wessel

Arguer’s Identity and Authorization for Phatic and Emotive Moves: A Proposal for an Extension to Inference Anchoring Theory

This paper proposes an extension of Inference Anchoring Theory (IAT) that incorporates speaker-centered pragmatic phenomena: arguer identity, phatic speech acts, and emotive speech acts into the analysis of natural-language argumentation. While recent work has shown how ethos can...