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This handbook provides a wide-ranging, authoritative and cutting-edge overview of language and persuasion. Featuring a range of international contributors, the handbook outlines the basic materials of linguistic persuasion.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Rhetoric, Linguistics, and the Study of Persuasion: An Overview and an Introduction
Randy Allen Harris and Jeanne FahnestockPart I. Basic Constituents of Rhetorical Persuasion
Chapter 1. Patterns of Argument: Aristotelian
Topoi and Argumentation Schemes
Christopher W. Tindale Chapter 2. A Reason to Feel: Rhetorical Style and Pathotic Enthymemes in Political Discourse
Cameron MozafariChapter 3. Exploring Expert Appeals to Ethos with Statistical Corpus Analysis: Personal and Contextual Factors and Their Influence on Climate Scientists' Use of Appeals to Expertise
James WynnChapter 4. Stasis: Moving People to Action
Davida CharneyChapter 5. Making Meaning out of Texts: An Approach through the Interpretive Stases
Martin Camper Chapter 6. Using Examples to Misrepresent the World
Michael Billig and Cristina MarinhoPart II. Enduring Features of Persuasive Language
Chapter 7. Sonic Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Spoken Language
Gabrijela Kiši¿ek
Chapter 8. Humor
Chris Holcomb and Heather BuzbeeChapter 9. Strategic Questioning
Cornelia IlieChapter 10. Evaluating to Persuade in Statistical Framing: A Conceptual Tool for Rhetors and Audiences
Daniel LibertzChapter 11. A Framework for Understanding Polarizing Language
William Donohue and Mark HamiltonPart III. Figures of Speech in Persuasion
Chapter 12. The Tropes: Metaphor and its Friends
Randy Allen Harris
Chapter 13. The Rhetoric of
Prosopopoeia: Persuading in Others' Voices
Bryan BlankfieldChapter 14. Phantasia, Enargeia, and Catachresis: Use and Abuse of Metaphors in Korean Political Discourse
Mansup HeoChapter 15. The Proleptic Suite
Ashley MehlenbacherChapter 16. Litotes and Repetition: The Identification Engine in Classic Chinese Maxims
Ying YuanPart IV. Fields and Genres of Persuasion
Chapter 17. The Languages of Science
Alan GrossChapter 18. Legal/Forensic Persuasion
James JasinskiChapter 19. Asian American Persuasion: The Subtleties of Speaking with Others' Words
Jennifer Lin LeMesurierChapter 20. Interactivity in Genre Forms: Ceremonial and Legislative
Government Apologies as Distinct Rhetorical Acts Toward Reconciliation
Martha S. ChengChapter 21. Persuasion in Songs of Protest: Deliberation Through Metaphors and Music in South African Struggle Songs
Sisanda NkoalaChapter 22. Games, Language, and Persuasion
Steve WilcoxChapter 23. Multi-Genre Arguing in the Sciences: The Genetics of Longevity Controversy
Jeanne FahnestockChapter 24. Propaganda
John Oddo Part V. Roots of Persuasion
Chapter 25. The Development of Persuasive Communication: Animals and the Evolved Mind
Alex C. ParrishChapter 26. Young Children's Argumentative Contributions
Sara Greco and Anne-Nelly Perret-ClermontChapter 27. Persuasive Language Development: The Case of Irony and Humour in Children's Language
Penny M. PexmanChapter 28. Grounding Cognition: Intersections of Rhetorical Theory and Cognitive Science
Todd OakleyPart VI. Methods of Examining Persuasive Language
Chapter 29. Computer-aided Close Reading: Visualizing Contrastive Persuasion Strategies
David Kaufer and Suguru IshizakiChapter 30. Computer-based Analysis: Argument Mining
John Lawrence and Jacky VisserGlossary
Index
About the author
Jeanne Fahnestock is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, USA.
Randy Allen Harris is a Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
