Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation : The Pragmatics of Quotation and Reporting

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...

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Main Authors Macagno, Fabrizio (Author), Walton, Douglas (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesPerspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 14
Subjects
Linguistics.
Political communication.
Pragmatics.
Political sociology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319625454
ISSN2214-3807 ;
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-62545-4
Physical DescriptionXVIII, 203 p. 21 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Using Quotations: Their Argumentative uses and Their Manipulations
  • Communicative Intentions and Commitments
  • Establishing Commitments between Ambiguity and Misquotation
  • The Strategies of Misattribution of Commitments
  • Evaluating Relevance and Commitments in Rhetorical Straw Man
  • Commitment and Position
  • A Procedure for Assessing Complex cases of Straw Man
  • Conclusions
  • Indices
  • Cases.

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