Fabrizio Macagno, Douglas Walton

Emotive Language in Argumentation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the uses and implicit dimensions of emotive language from a pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic and rhetorical perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9781107035980
• ISBN-10: 1107035988
• Artikelnr.: 40401939

Autorenporträt

Fabrizio Macagno (Ph.D. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, 2008) is a researcher and invited assistant professor at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. His current research, between the fields of linguistics and philosophy of language, is focused on the persuasive use of emotive language and on the dialectical dimension of discourse implicitness, which he analyzes within the contexts of legal and political discourse. He applies the theoretical models developed to the context of education, proposing methods for analyzing classroom discourse and conversation. He is the author of several papers on definition, informal fallacies, argumentation schemes, and dialogue theory published in major international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Argumentation, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Informal Logic, and Pragmatics and Cognition. His most important publications include the books Argumentation Schemes (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Emotive Language in Argumentation (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation (Springer, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

1. When words are emotive
2. The emotions in our words
3. When words are reasoning
4. The acts of defining
5. What our words hide: presupposition and dark-side commitments
6. Dialogues and commitments
7. Metadialogues and redefinitions.

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1. When words are emotive; 2. The emotions in our words; 3. When words are reasoning; 4. The acts of defining; 5. What our words hide: presupposition and dark-side commitments; 6. Dialogues and commitments; 7. Metadialogues and redefinitions.

Rezensionen

'Very often, words have emotive meanings and present certain values and assumptions as uncontroversial, thus functioning as persuasive (and potentially manipulative) instruments of everyday argumentation. However, an in-depth study of this important and potentially dangerous property of words is still lacking. Macagno and Walton fill this gap with their brilliant and exhaustive study of the relationship between words' meanings and emotions, values, definitions, presuppositions and dialogue commitments.' Manfred Kienpointner, University of Innsbruck