ABSTRACT
To establish precisely what someone who has advanced argumentation can be held to if the argumentative discourse is analyzed as a critical discussion, an analysis must be carried out both at a pragmatic and at a logical level. At the pragmatic level, the analysis is directed toward reconstructing the complex speech act performed in advancing the argumentation, while at the logical level, the reasoning underlying the argumentation is reconstructed. In practice, the logical analysis is instrumental for the pragmatic analysis.
