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Discourse Studies (disc)

The behaviour of argument considered as a phenomenon in its own right, independent of anything argued about.

December 2025

1. [1] arghXiv:2512.07740

   Silence as Concession: Interpretive Practice in 611 Terminated Exchanges

   D. Ostrowski

   7 pages. Subjects: Outcome and Concession (argu.OUT) (primary class); Social Discourse (disc.SOC); Non-terminating Dispute (argu.LOOP); Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV)

2. [2] arghXiv:2512.03318

   Symmetric Citation of a Nineteenth-Century Null Result in Contemporary Exchanges

   E. Cavill

   13 pages, 3 figures. The experiment itself is outside the scope of this archive and is not assessed. Subjects: Sourcing (epist.SRC) (primary class); History of the Field (meta.HIST); Social Discourse (disc.SOC); Verification and Provenance (epist.VER)