Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation: The Pragmatics of Quotation and Reporting

by Douglas Walton and Fabrizio Macagno

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319625446
• ISBN13: 9783319625447
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"