There is Critique and there is Critique:Epistemology of Argumentation Models

This paper claims that any conception of critique is necessarily linked with the (often implicit) epistemology of models for Discourse Analysis. This is what actually underlies the debates of the experts in the discipline. I present here a defense of the rhetorical model - but at the same time, I propose to highlight its practical dimension, which is closely connected to emotions and intuitions. Thus rhetoric is, primarily, a technique. This aspect of the discipline lies at the very heart of its rationality. Such criteria should be added to an expanded conception of human reason which would take into account contemporary tools for Discourse Analysis.