아카데미 토론 평가에 대한 재고찰 - 토론승패와 설득은 일치하는가 - (A study on correlation between debate performance and persuasion ability in Academic debate)

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· 발행기관 : 한국수사학회
· 수록지 정보 : 수사학 / 14호 / 101 ~ 125페이지
· 저자명 : 장혜영

초록

The intrinsic motivation of debate is to persuade the audience. If the ultimate purpose of debate is for persuasion, the meaning of winning in the debate is as the same as the success of persuasion. However, we, often, could find many cases that the audience are not persuaded even if the debate was quite good. The study focus on this phenomenon. It starts from this simple question. How does effective debate relate to persuasion? Why did the debaters lose in the competition while general audiences are being persuaded? Is this evaluation right? In order to tackle these issues, the experiment was executed in the course called as “How to Debate” at Myungji University in spring semester of 2010. The correlation between debate and persuasion was examined based in-depth analysis of the evaluation of the real debate. This attempt will provide us to rethink about the debate in itself and the relevance of debate evaluation system. Based on the analysis, the ratio of coincident relation between debate evaluation and persuasion performance is the highest percentage of 66%, but the ratio of discord between the two is 34% which cannot be ignored. Therefore, we could say that the persuasion and debate evaluation is not always related with each other. One of the possible reasons is come from the intrinsic characteristics of academic debate which logical persuasion is only privileged. Therefore, in order to mitigate negative aspect of debate evaluation and to improve the fairness of debate competition, it is necessary for debate evaluators to be informed about the characteristic and intention of the academic debate. It is also needed that there should be clear demarcation between common debate and academic debate in the evaluation. Finally, we should reconsider the current practice of academic debate evaluation system which only focused on logical persuasion scarifying other dimension of persuasion.

영어초록

The intrinsic motivation of debate is to persuade the audience. If the ultimate purpose of debate is for persuasion, the meaning of winning in the debate is as the same as the success of persuasion. However, we, often, could find many cases that the audience are not persuaded even if the debate was quite good. The study focus on this phenomenon. It starts from this simple question. How does effective debate relate to persuasion? Why did the debaters lose in the competition while general audiences are being persuaded? Is this evaluation right? In order to tackle these issues, the experiment was executed in the course called as “How to Debate” at Myungji University in spring semester of 2010. The correlation between debate and persuasion was examined based in-depth analysis of the evaluation of the real debate. This attempt will provide us to rethink about the debate in itself and the relevance of debate evaluation system. Based on the analysis, the ratio of coincident relation between debate evaluation and persuasion performance is the highest percentage of 66%, but the ratio of discord between the two is 34% which cannot be ignored. Therefore, we could say that the persuasion and debate evaluation is not always related with each other. One of the possible reasons is come from the intrinsic characteristics of academic debate which logical persuasion is only privileged. Therefore, in order to mitigate negative aspect of debate evaluation and to improve the fairness of debate competition, it is necessary for debate evaluators to be informed about the characteristic and intention of the academic debate. It is also needed that there should be clear demarcation between common debate and academic debate in the evaluation. Finally, we should reconsider the current practice of academic debate evaluation system which only focused on logical persuasion scarifying other dimension of persuasion.

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