Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation: The Pragmatics of Quotation and Reporting: 14 (Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology)

by Douglas Walton (Author), Fabrizio Macagno (Author), Douglas Walton (Author), Fabrizio Macagno (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2017

  $159.93

  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.