Dialectical profiles and indicators of argumentative moves

In this paper the authors give a brief overview of the theoretical background of their research project ‘Linguistic indicators of argumentative moves’. Starting from the pragma-dialectical ideal model of a critical discussion, they design dialectical profiles for capturing the moves that may or must be made at a particular stage or sub-stage of such a discussion. They explain how these dialectical profiles can be methodically exploited for systematically identifying the verbal expressions that can be indicative of any of these moves in argumentative practice.