Article outline

• 3.1Introduction
• 3.2Opinions in printed newspapers
• 3.3The pragma-dialectical approach to the contextualization of argumentative practices
• 3.4The institutional point of political columns
• 3.5Political columns as an argumentative activity type
  • 3.5.1The argumentativeness of a political column
  • 3.5.2The initial situation
  • 3.5.3Procedural starting points
    • Multitude of antagonists
  • 3.5.4Material starting points
  • 3.5.5Means of argumentation and criticisms
  • 3.5.6Possible outcomes
• 3.6Conclusion
• Notes