28.3958, Books: Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation: Macagno, Walton

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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 12:37:25
From: Helen van der Stelt [Helen.vanderStelt at springer.com]
Subject: Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation: Macagno, Walton

 


Title: Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation 
Subtitle: The Pragmatics of Quotation and Reporting 
Series Title: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Springer
	   http://www.springer.com
	

Book URL: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319625447 


Author: Fabrizio Macagno
Author: Douglas Walton

Hardback: ISBN:  9783319625447 Pages: 221 Price: Europe EURO 89.99


Abstract:

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 discourses and
dialogs) and 20 legal cases, the book analyzes the explicit and implicit types
of straw man, shows how to assess the correctness of a quote or a report, and
illustrates the arguments that can be used for supporting an interpretation
and defending against a distortion. The tools of argumentation theory, a
discipline aimed at investigating the uses of arguments by combining insights
from pragmatics, logic, and communication, are applied to provide an original
account of interpretation and reporting, and to describe and illustrate
tactics and procedures that can be used and implemented for practical
purposes.. This book will appeal to scholars in the fields of political
communication, communication in general, argumentation theory, rhetoric and
pragmatics, as well as to people working in public speech, speech writing, and
discourse analysis.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics


Written In: English  (eng)

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