Emotive language in argumentation

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Author:

Macagno, Fabrizio, author.

ISBN:

9781139565776

Personal Author:

Macagno, Fabrizio, author.

Physical Description:

xi, 292 pages : illustrations.

Contents:

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

Abstract:

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.

Subject Term:

Reasoning.

Language and emotions.

Added Author:

Walton, Douglas N.

Added Corporate Author:

Cambridge University Press.

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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.