On the argumentative hyperlanguage notion: the pragma-analytical approach

Contemporary argumentative texts variety by the one hand, and multiplicity of recommendations for their creation by the other, tell about daily necessity of forming the integrative approach, which would allow operating with argumentative texts of different types. The article is dedicated to researching the argumentative practices in their variety. The subject of investigation is methodological basis of argumentation analysis which allows to compare argumentative texts of different types. There are two attempts in the modern argumentation theory to formulate a generalizing approach to argumentative practices research: the analytical historical-philosophic approach (Barnes J., Cross R., Dancy R.M. and others) and the historical approach by Maurice A. Finocchiaro. The first one is to study argumentation in philosophical texts and is aimed at the clarifying the sense of philosophical text; it supposes using formalization as a method for correlating the texts of different types. The second one is a three-step method: 1) "suitable" text choice; 2) immersion into context; 3) formulating generalizations regarding the text argumentative specificity. The both approaches are focused on argumentative practices diachronic research, and both have serious disadvantages. So, in the analytical historical-philosophic approach we could get an overly cumbersome formal language as a result of text of different types formalization, its usage would not be effective. Finocchiaro's approach supposes too strict criteria of the text selection, as a result of which a huge array of argumentative practices remains "out of the study". However in later works Finocchiaro introduces the term "meta-argumentation", which has a serious heuristic potential. Developing further his ideas we will understand argumentation as a specific hyperlanguage, which is a sign system, and its basic elements are macrostructures of a natural language. We can formulate syntax, semantics and pragmatics for the argumentative hyper-language. This approach we will name "pragma-analytic". It supposes an explicit emphasis on the pragmatic side of argumentation and at the same time preserves the proximity of the language understanding in analytical tradition.

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