H. José Plug
List of John Benjamins publications in which H. José Plug is involved.
2020 Violence metaphors for cancer: Pragmatic and symptomatic arguments against Metaphor and the Social World 10:1, pp. 121–140 | Article
The use of violence metaphors for cancer has been widely criticised both in academic and non-academic contexts (see Harrington, 2012; Semino et al., 2015). Whereas previous research on violence metaphors for cancer has focused on the use and functions of these metaphors by and for different… read more
2019 Challenging judicial impartiality: When accusations of derailments of strategic maneuvering derail Journal of Argumentation in Context 8:2, pp. 245–261 | Article
Impartiality is one of the core values underlying the administration of justice. A complaint about a judge’s supposed lack of impartiality may be filed on the grounds of the judge’s verbal behavior. In this article I will analyze complaints that concern the judge’s use of rhetorical questions… read more
2017 Chapter 10. The strategic use of argumentation from example in plenary debates in the European Parliament Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Peng Wu (eds.), pp. 159–176 | Chapter
2017 Chapter 13. Attacks on the cartoonist’s strategic manoeuvring: An argumentative analysis of criticism on political cartoons Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-disciplinary perspectives, Ilie, Cornelia and Giuliana Garzone (eds.), pp. 317–338 | Chapter
Political cartoons may be understood as instances of visual or multimodal argumentative discourse. When a political cartoon is a subject of controversy, the criticism of the cartoon may therefore be aimed at the argumentation. For the purpose of a systematic analysis of visual and multimodal… read more
2015 Transparency in legal argumentation: Adapting to a composite audience in administrative judicial decisions Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 121–132 | Article
An important topic in the debate about transparency of the administration of justice includes the communicative function of judicial decisions. This function should be conceived as the judge’s aim to have his argumentation understood (the communicative effect), as well as to have it accepted (the… read more
2011 Strategic maneuvering with visual arguments in political cartoons: A pragma-dialectical analysis of the use of topoi that are based on common cultural heritage Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren, Feteris, Eveline T., Bart Garssen and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.), pp. 59–74 | Article
2010 Ad-hominem arguments in the Dutch and the European Parliaments: Strategic manoeuvring in an institutional context European Parliaments under Scrutiny: Discourse strategies and interaction practices, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 305–328 | Article