Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation : The Pragmatics of Quotation and Reporting

• Main Authors: Macagno, Fabrizio (Author), Walton, Douglas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 14
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Political communication.; Pragmatics.; Political sociology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319625454
• ISSN: 2214-3807 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62545-4
• Physical Description: XVIII, 203 p. 21 illus. online resource.

This book shows how research in linguistic pragmatics, philosophy of language, and rhetoric can be connected through argumentation to analyze a recognizably common strategy used in political and everyday conversation, namely the distortion of another's words in an argumentative exchange. Straw...