ABSTRACT
Strategic maneuvering takes place in communicative activity types which are attuned to institutional requirements of the communicative domain concerned. Communicative activity types are communicative practices whose conventionalization serves to meet the institutional exigencies of the communicative domain in response to which the communicative activity type has developed. If a communicative activity type is inherently, essentially, or predominantly argumentative, so that argumentation plays an important part, it is worthwhile to provide an argumentative characterization of this activity type. The conventionalization instrumental in achieving the institutional point of a communicative activity type imposes certain constraints on the argumentative discourse taking place in that activity type. To do justice to the institutional preconditions of the activity type, in some communicative activity types the critical questions pertaining to a certain mode of strategic maneuvering by means of argumentation need to be further specified, made more precise, or otherwise amended.
