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Persuasion in Specialized Discourse
A multidisciplinary perspective
The volume aims to advance understanding of argumentative practices in different communicative contexts, with special regard for those with heightened public resonance: politics, media, and public debate in general. Furthermore, it intends to explore the linguistic aspects of argumentation, including both explicit codification, with the related issue of indicators, and the activation of implicit meanings.
Bringing together different paradigms to account for the relations between contextual factors and discourse realizations, the contributions articulate around three foci, placing emphasis on one or more of them: the communicative purpose within a given genre or activity type; the argumentative and linguistic features of the investigated discourses, among which prototypical patterns, argumentative styles, and implicit meanings; the assessment of argumentation quality and strategies to cope with illegitimate practices.
Bringing together different paradigms to account for the relations between contextual factors and discourse realizations, the contributions articulate around three foci, placing emphasis on one or more of them: the communicative purpose within a given genre or activity type; the argumentative and linguistic features of the investigated discourses, among which prototypical patterns, argumentative styles, and implicit meanings; the assessment of argumentation quality and strategies to cope with illegitimate practices.
[Argumentation in Context, 22] 2024. ix, 268 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 4 October 2024
Published online on 4 October 2024
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- List of figures | pp. vii–viii
- List of tables | pp. ix–x
- Introduction. Genres and persuasion : Linguistic and argumentation perspectivesChiara Degano, Dora Renna and Francesca Santulli | pp. 1–23
- Chapter 1. Plural conversations about argumentation: A bibliometric and corpus analysisNatalija Todorovic, Benedetto Lepori and Andrea Rocci | pp. 24–45
- Chapter 2. Establishing starting points in Editorials: An analysis of the Brexit debate in the UKChiara Degano | pp. 46–70
- Chapter 3. Arguments and framing strategies in Italian public discourse about measures to contrast the Covid-19 pandemicSarah Bigi, Giulia Grata and Paola Mosconi | pp. 71–91
- Chapter 4. Press releases of COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers: A critical view on promotion techniquesJekaterina Nikitina | pp. 92–110
- Chapter 5. Legitimation in contested industries: The role of argumentationPaola Catenaccio | pp. 111–133
- Chapter 6. Argumentative style in international adoption dossiersEmanuele Brambilla | pp. 134–152
- Chapter 7. Persuasion and critical-theoretical thoughtMena Mitrano | pp. 153–168
- Chapter 8. Argumentation and the “interaction of minds” in text: The case of discourse on artPaul Tucker | pp. 169–188
- Chapter 9. Argumentation in scientific discourse: A pragma-dialectical pilot studyTiziana Roncoroni | pp. 189–210
- Chapter 10. Teaching to manage implicit linguistic meanings: The state of the art and future perspectivesGiulia Giunta and Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri | pp. 211–231
- Chapter 11. Bentham on rhetoric: The misuse of fallaciesRoss Charnock | pp. 232–247
- Chapter 12. Engaging conspiracy theories: Reducing the anti-persuasive effects of persuasionTom Werner | pp. 248–264
- Index | pp. 265–268
“With its variety of analyses, the volume serves as a valuable repository of interrelations between argumentation theory and discourse analysis. Each connection that emerges in the contributions could be expanded and analyzed in depth, making the book a precious reference for further studies.”
Daria Evangelista, University of Copenhagen, in Journal of Argumentation in Context 14:1 (2025).