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Discourse Studies (disc)

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

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11. [11] arghXiv:2606.09100v2

    Fallacy Attribution Outside Argumentative Settings

    E. Cavill

    9 pages, 1 figure. Companion to arghXiv:2607.07120, coded from the same corpus. Subjects: Social Discourse (disc.SOC) (primary class); Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV); Terminology and Definition (disc.LEX)

12. [12] arghXiv:2607.07120 [pdf]

    Fallacy Attribution in Two-Party Disputes: Extension, Agreement, and Depth

    E. Cavill, Q. Barratt

    3 pages, 2 tables. Coding manual and the move set in Appendix A. Item 3 was not scored. Subjects: Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV) (primary class); Terminology and Definition (disc.LEX); Method and Instrumentation (meta.METH); Social Discourse (disc.SOC)

13. [13] arghXiv:2607.03340

    Time to Termination Under Chairing: A Reanalysis

    M. Crozier

    5 pages, 2 tables. Reanalysis of the data of arghXiv:2511.09852, obtained from the authors. Subjects: Moderation and Channel Governance (disc.MOD) (primary class); Replication and Non-Replication (futil.REP); Outcome and Concession (argu.OUT)

14. [14] arghXiv:2606.14318

    Legibility of Numerical Values in Serially Re-Captured Images

    A. Hollis

    13 pages, 6 plates. Companion to arghXiv:2605.10402; a different image set, coded for generation. Subjects: Image and Non-Textual Argument (rhet.IMG) (primary class); Sourcing (epist.SRC); Social Discourse (disc.SOC)

15. [15] arghXiv:2605.14206

    Concurrent Responsiveness in Exchanges Recorded as Talkative Silence

    D. Ostrowski

    9 pages, 2 tables. The intervals are a subset of the corpus of arghXiv:2512.11487. Response types: /help/response-types. Subjects: Synchronous Discourse (disc.SYN) (primary class); Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV); Social Discourse (disc.SOC)

16. [16] arghXiv:2605.10402

    Provenance of Diagrams Circulated in Sightline Disputes

    A. Hollis

    11 pages, 2 tables. The images themselves are not reproduced. Response types: /help/response-types. Subjects: Image and Non-Textual Argument (rhet.IMG) (primary class); Sourcing (epist.SRC); Social Discourse (disc.SOC); Verification and Provenance (epist.VER)

17. [17] arghXiv:2605.08840

    Invocation of a Named Cognitive Finding in Adversarial Exchanges, and Its Correspondence to the Finding

    K. Lindqvist

    16 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. The finding invoked is real and is not evaluated here. Subjects: Confidence and Calibration (epist.CONF) (primary class); Credentialism (epist.CRED); Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV); Social Discourse (disc.SOC)

18. [18] arghXiv:2605.03271

    Recall Fidelity for Positions Held in Concluded Disputes

    G. Halloran

    10 pages, 1 figure. Transcripts were not shown before the reconstruction task. Subjects: General Futility (futil.GEN) (primary class); Social Discourse (disc.SOC); Confidence and Calibration (epist.CONF)

19. [19] arghXiv:2604.07061

    Transition Rates Between First-Order and Metadiscursive States in Extended Exchanges

    D. Ostrowski

    23 pages, 7 figures. Coding manual in Appendix B. The corpus is that of arghXiv:2511.06104, recoded. Subjects: Self-Reference (meta.SELF) (primary class); Eristics (argu.ER); Social Discourse (disc.SOC)

20. [20] arghXiv:2604.05880

    Expressions of Disbelief as Terminal Moves

    R. Adeyemi

    15 pages, 2 tables. Coding manual in Appendix C. Item 4 was retained after revision. Response types: /help/response-types. Subjects: Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV) (primary class); Confidence and Calibration (epist.CONF); Social Discourse (disc.SOC); Outcome and Concession (argu.OUT)