This book provides a comprehensive overview of empirical studies based on various approaches devoted to examining the interpersonal argumentative processes involved in different contexts. It also identifies context-dependent similarities and differences in the ways in which argumentative interactions are managed by individuals in a range of educational and professional settings.
How can some forms of negotiation, change and debate result from engaging in interpersonal processes during argumentation? How do interpersonal dimensions affect the interdependencies between argumentative exchanges and construction of knowledge and skills? The book clarifies these open questions by providing a discussion of theoretical and empirical issues at the forefront of research, in order to provide a view of how interpersonal argumentation in educational and professional contexts is actually questioned and investigated.
It offers readers an opportunity to discover the crucial importance of an in-depth understanding of the role and functions played by the interpersonal dynamics within argumentative interactions occurring in a wide range of educational and professional contexts.

Contents
1. Inter-generational Argumentation: Children’s Account Work During Dinner Conversations in Italy and Sweden
2. What Can Studying Designed Marital Argument Interventions Contribute to Argumentation Scholarship?
3. Reading Together: The Interplay Between Social and Cognitive Aspects in Argumentative and Non-argumentative Dialogues
4. The Role of the Teacher in Promoting Argumentative Interactions in the Learning Contexts of Higher Education
5. The Epidemic Effect of Scaffolding Argumentation in Small Groups to Whole-Class Teacher-Led Argumentation
6. Processes of Negotiation in Socio-scientific Argumentation About Vegetarianism in Teacher Education
7. Argumentation and Conflict Management in Online Epistemic Communities: A Narrative Approach to Wikipedia Debates
8. The Interplay of Argumentative Dialogues and Work Observations in Collective Reflection for Work Transformation. Cross Self-confrontations in a Public Health Institution
9. Imaginary Scenarios as Resources to Argue for Treatment Advice in Cancer Consultations
10. Notes on Similarities and Differences in Studying Argumentation: A Synthetic View
11. Argumentation in Dialogue: Final Conclusions