Rob Grootendorst (11 February 1944 in Schiedam – 23 February 2000 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch communication and argumentation theory scholar. He was professor for Dutch speech communication at the University of Amsterdam. His contributions to the argumentation field include the co-foundation of the pragma-dialectic school in argumentation theory.

He also wrote several books on the life and works of the Dutch writer and politician Theo Thijssen.

Biography

Grootendorst was a teacher at an elementary school in the 1960s. He studied Dutch studies at the University of Amsterdam since 1980, and became a Ph.D. in 1982 in Speech Communication. The dissertation was jointly written with Frans H. van Eemeren. They jointly founded the International Society for the Study of Argumentation in 1986.

Selected works

  • Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies: A Pragma-Dialectical Perspective (Hillsdale: Erlbaum, 1992), with van Eemeren[1]
  • Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory: A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments (Mahwah: Erlbaum, 1996), with van Eemeren[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Makau, Josina M. (1995). "Rev. of van Eemeren, Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies". Philosophy & Rhetoric. 28 (4): 426–30. JSTOR 40237877.
  2. ↑ "Rev. of van Eemeren, Grootendorst, Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory". College Composition and Communication. 48 (3): 437–38. 1997. JSTOR 358423.

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