Argumendid ja nende kasutamine seaduseelnõude menetlemisel kahe parlamendi näitel
Arguments and their use in the processing of bills on the example of two parliaments

Summary/Abstract: An argument is a natural language statement or sequence of statements consisting of a claim and one or more premises. The simplest argument contains a single premise and a claim. There are three types of relationships between arguments: an argument can support the claim or premise of another argument, attack another argument or its premise, or rebut another argument. The article compares the structure of arguments used in the proceedings of bills in two parliaments – the Riigikogu of the Republic of Estonia and the British Parliament. The comparison is based on the argument corpus containing transcripts of parliamentary sessions, where the structure of arguments, relationships between arguments and dialogue acts are annotated. The course of the procedure of the bill is described by the exchange of supporting and attacking or rebutting arguments by members of parliament.

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