| Summary: | This paper aims at contributing to the theoretical and methodological debate bearing on the definition of “argumentation” and the observation of argumentative processes in linguistic data. It shows how a discursive approach can deal with two issues that are often discussed in the field of argumentation studies. (1) On a pragmatic level, is it possible to identify one (or several) aim(s) allowing to understand what is specific to the verbal activity of argumentation, as opposed to other verbal activities? (2) Is it possible to correlate such pragmatic aims with forms, so as to account for argumentation in the materiality of language? The paper thus deals both with the aims of argumentation, and with their linguistic correlates: its objective is to put forward a series of methodological propositions, and to discuss a few recent contributions that had an impact on the discursive approach to argumentation as developed in francophone research.
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