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  • Chapter 2 - The Dyadic Reduction

  • from Part I - Seeking, Seeing, and Embracing Polylogue
  • Marcin Lewiński, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal, Mark Aakhus, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    Argumentation in Complex Communication
    Published online:
    22 February 2023
    Print publication:
    22 December 2022, pp 33-57

  • Summary

    This chapter exposes the received dyadic model of communication and then critically analyzes the presumptions of the model. This reductive model, which views communication as evolving from a basic unit of face-to-face dialogue between two people, has dominated understanding of communication from ancient dialectic to today’s speech act theory, conversation analysis, and argumentation theory – the disciplines discussed in the chapter. While the dyadic reduction has a long, important history in theorizing argumentation and communication – a history that is briefly recounted, going back to the dialectical roots of argumentation theory – the principle of reduction becomes unjustified reductionism that bypasses polylogical realities of argumentation and communication.