Argumentation in political interviews : analyzing and evaluating responses to accusations of inconsistency
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Argumentation in political interviews : analyzing and evaluating responses to accusations of inconsistency
（Argumentation in context / editors Frans van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, v. 5）
John Benjamins, c2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-140) and indexes
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Description
In Argumentation in Political Interviews Corina Andone uses the pragma-dialectical concept of strategic maneuvering to gain a better understanding of political interviews as argumentative practices. She analyzes and evaluates the way in which politicians react in political interviews to the accusation that the position they currently hold is inconsistent with a position they advanced before. The politicians' responses to such charges are examined for their strategic function by concentrating on a number of concrete cases and explaining how the arguers try to enhance their chances of winning the discussion. In addition, the soundness criteria are formulated for judging properly when the politicians' responses are indeed reasonable.This book is important to argumentation theorists, discourse analysts, communication scholars and all other researchers and students interested in the way in which language is used for the purpose of persuasion in a political context.
Corina Andone is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface
- 2. 1. Introduction
- 3. 2. Analytically relevant responses to an accusation of inconsistency
- 4. 3. The political interview as an argumentative activity type
- 5. 4. Strategic maneuvering in response to an accusation of inconsistency in a political interview
- 6. 5. The reasonableness of responses to an accusation of inconsistency in a political interview
- 7. 6. Conclusion
- 8. References
- 9. List of figures
- 10. Name index
- 11. Subject index
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