Media argumentation : dialectic, persuasion, and rhetoric /
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| Author / Creator: | Walton, Douglas N. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. |
| Description: | xiii, 386 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6621739 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Logic, Dialectic, and Rhetoric
- 1. The Viewpoint of Informal Logic
- 2. The Old Dialectic of the Greeks
- 3. The Opposition between Rhetoric and Dialectic
- 4. Topics and Fallacies
- 5. Persuasion, Social Influence, and Democracy
- 6. Argumentation Schemes
- 7. Basic Practical Reasoning
- 8. Value-Based Practical Reasoning
- 9. The Star Trek Example
- 10. The Aims of Dialectical and Rhetorical Argumentation
- 2. The Speech Act of Persuasion
- 1. The Belief-Desire-Intention Approach and the Commitment Approach
- 2. Basic Components of Persuasion
- 3. Chaining of Argumentation
- 4. Types of Dialogue
- 5. Deliberation
- 6. Closing of the Deliberation Dialogue
- 7. Acts of Persuasion, Inducement, and Making a Threat
- 8. Negotiation Dialogue and Persuasion
- 9. Relevance and Argument Diagramming
- 10. The Cognitive Component of Persuasion
- 11. The New Definition of the Speech Act of Persuasion
- 3. Propaganda
- 1. Negative Connotations
- 2. Public Discourse and Reason
- 3. Appeal to the People Revisited
- 4. The Dialectical Viewpoint on Propaganda
- 5. Persuasion and Propaganda
- 6. Characteristics of Propaganda
- 7. Is Propaganda Necessarily Dishonest or Irrational?
- 8. Openness to Contrary Evidence
- 9. Deceptiveness and Relevance in Propaganda
- 10. Evaluating Argumentation in Propaganda
- 4. Appeals to Fear and Pity
- 1. Appeals to Fear and Pity in Mass Media
- 2. Appeals to Fear
- 3. Appeals to Pity
- 4. The Respondent-to-Dialogue Problem
- 5. Simulative Reasoning
- 6. The Dual Process Model of Persuasion
- 7. The Structure of Appeals to Fear
- 8. The Structure of Appeals to Pity
- 9. Multi-agent Structure of Both Types of Argument
- 10. When Are Appeals to Fear and Pity Fallacious?
- 5. Ad Hominem Arguments in Political Discourse
- 1. Classifying the Types of Ad Hominem Argument
- 2. The Circumstantial and Other Types
- 3. Argument from Commitment
- 4. The Gore Case
- 5. The Battalino Case
- 6. Classifying the Argument in the Battalino Case
- 7. Evaluating the Argument in the Battalino Case
- 8. Implicature and Innuendo
- 9. Evaluating the Argument in the Gore Case
- 10. Evaluating the Arguments Rhetorically and Dialectically
- 6. Arguments Based on Popular Opinion
- 1. Influencing the Mass Audience
- 2. Appeal to Popular Opinion as an Argument
- 3. Cases in Point
- 4. The Form of the Argument
- 5. Fallacious Appeals to Popular Opinion
- 6. Endoxa in Greek Dialectic
- 7. Public Opinion as Informed Deliberation
- 8. A More Careful Basis for Evaluating Cases
- 9. Viewing the Public as an Agent
- 10. Evaluating Appeal to Popular Opinion
- 7. Fallacies and Bias in Public Opinion Polling
- 1. Definitions and Sampling Surveys
- 2. Question Wording and Emotive Bias in Polls
- 3. The Structure of the Question
- 4. Forcing an Answer
- 5. Use of Polls by Advocacy Groups
- 6. The Advent of Deliberative Polling
- 7. Argumentation Schemes and Critical Questions
- 8. Using Formal Dialectical Models of Argumentation
- 9. Combining Dialectical and Empirical Methods
- 10. Conclusion and Summary of Fallacies
- 8. Persuasive Definitions and Public Policy Arguments
- 1. Stevenson's Theory of Persuasive Definitions
- 2. Cases of Public Redefinitions
- 3. Wider Implications of These Cases
- 4. Definitions in the New Dialectic
- 5. Proof of Legitimacy of Persuasive Definitions
- 6. Argumentation Schemes Relating to Definitions
- 7. The Speech Act of Defining
- 8. Evaluating Persuasive Definitions
- 9. What Should the Rules for Persuasive Definitions Be?
- 10. Conclusions
- 9. The Structure of Media Argumentation
- 1. Rhetoric and Dialectic Reconfigured
- 2. The Respondent-to-Dialogue Problem Revisited
- 3. Direct and Indirect Media Argumentation
- 4. Star Trek: The Rhetorical Dimension
- 5. Argumentation Strategies
- 6. Plan Recognition
- 7. The Solution to the RTD Problem
- 8. Fifteen Basic Components of Media Argumentation
- 9. The Persuasion System
- 10. Computational Dialectics for Rhetorical Invention
- Bibliography
- Index
