A Study on Argumentation and Its Teaching

Gustavo Giménez’s book *A Study of Argumentation and Its Teaching* offers a sharp and critical analysis of argumentation—a subject of knowledge and academic transmission that is central to language education. The text focuses on decoding the theoretical perspective underlying school textbooks on argumentative texts and discourses for instruction in the first cycle of secondary school. The author justifies the study of school textbooks by considering them significant indicators of certain logics at play in teaching. To that end, he defines them as specific discursive devices that express the complex process of transposing and transforming knowledge from the field of linguistics into classroom practices.