Fabrizio Macagno

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Emotive Language in Argumentation (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

This book analyzes the uses of emotive language and redefinitions from pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic and rhetorical perspectives, investigating the relationship between emotions, persuasion and meaning, and focusing on the implicit dimension of the use of a word and its dialectical effects. It offers a method for evaluating the persuasive and manipulative uses of emotive language in ordinary and political discourse. Through the analysis of political speeches (including President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize address) and legal arguments, the book offers a systematic study of emotive language in argumentation, rhetoric, communication, political science and public speaking.

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Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107502369
• Artikelnr.: 40436207

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