Screen LibraryInterpreting 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 man a...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62545-4 |
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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 man argumentation refers to the modification of a position by misquoting, misreporting or wrenching the original speaker s statements from their context in order to attack them more easily or more effectively. Through 63 examples taken from different contexts (including political and forensic discourse |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XVIII, 203 pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319625454 |
| Index Number: | P99 |
| CLC: | H030 |
| 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. |