Abstract
Keeping in touch with pragma-dialectics contains 17 contributions written for Frans van Eemeren on the occasion of his retirement. Publications 'in honor of' are always entertaining for all who are sympathetic to the laureate (let us consider a retirement as a tribute to a long and very fruitful career) but may lack a clear focus that is shared by the majority of the contributors, may lack the weight to be considered as a substantial contribution to the discipline. The somewhat 'empty' title of this volume may support that expectation. That would be a pity! Keeping in touch with pragmadialectics could have carried the much too lengthy subtitle: Exploring the expressiveness and the limits of the extended pragma-dialectic argument theory; a meta-dialectical exercise.