Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation
The Pragmatics of Quotation and Reporting
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Beschreibung
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.
Provides a unique analysis of the uses and the dangerous effects of quotations in political discourse and legal cases
Offers a method and a procedure for evaluating quotes and misquotes
Analyzes quotation from a dialectic and a rhetoric perspective
Investigates the tacit dimension of communication in terms of argument
Provides a unique analysis of the uses and the dangerous effects of quotations in political discourse and legal cases Offers a method and a procedure for evaluating quotes and misquotes Analyzes quotation from a dialectic and a rhetoric perspective Investigates the tacit dimension of communication in terms of argument
Autor*in
Fabrizio Macagno
Themen in »Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation«
Types of ad hominem Uses of ambiguity Interpretation and presumptive reasoning The burden of misquoting The normative framework for straw man Rhetorical effects of ad hominem