Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation : The Pragmatics of Quotation and Reporting

• Main Authors: Macagno, Fabrizio (Author), Walton, Douglas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 14
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Political communication.; Pragmatics.; Political sociology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books

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...