Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation by Fabrizio Macagno

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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.

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Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation by Fabrizio Macagno

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 anothers words in an argumentative exchange.

Douglas Walton is a University of Winnipeg philosophy professor. He has earned substantial research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Isaak Walton Killiam Memorial Foundation. He is an internationally recognized academic and author of more than thirty publications in the areas of argumentation, logic, and artificial intelligence.

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ISBN 13 9783319625447
ISBN 10 3319625446
Title Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation
Author Fabrizio Macagno
Series Perspectives In Pragmatics Philosophy And Psychology Ser
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Springer International Publishing AG
Year published 2017-09-15
Number of pages 203
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