Chapter Four: Conclusions, Pedagogical Recommendations, and Suggestions For Further Research
Chapter Four: Conclusions, Pedagogical Recommendations, and Suggestions For Further Research
Chapter Four: Conclusions, Pedagogical Recommendations, and Suggestions For Further Research
159 5- There is a strong relationship between argumentation and some of the major themes in the three novels. 6- Argumentation can be triggered by any strategy, i.e. it is not specified only by the strategies mentioned in this study which is limited to three novels. In real life situations, argumentation can be triggered by, for instance, asking a question, complaining, etc. 7- Through the analyzed examples, it has been shown that arguing competently, that is, effectively and appropriately, does not guarantee how the final stage is concluded (i.e. positively or negatively). This means that it is a matter of personal decision whether arguers are convinced or not. 8- Strikingly, the analysis of the data has shown that abiding by the Cooperative Principle (i.e. observing the conversational maxims consistently) is not a very dull affair (See p. 67). In argumentation, interactants have to keep to the Cooperative Principle and its four maxims (rather than violate them) in order to be described as effective arguers. 9- In argumentation, keeping to the Politeness Principle is very important. This is evident when revealing that in the majority of situations in which this principle has not been appealed to, argumentation terminates with a quarrel, which is a very dispreferred strategy of concluding argumentation. 10- Saussures resembling language to a game of chess applies, to a great extent, to the very language of argumentation with the difference that in argumentation the two players (i.e. arguers) see very well in that each makes her/his moves in response to those of the other, unlike Saussures players of whom one is blind and the other sees very well.
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