Media argumentation: Dialectic, persuasion, and rhetoric (Record no. 21803)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 978-0521700306 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 168 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Walton, Douglas |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Media argumentation: Dialectic, persuasion, and rhetoric |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2007. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiii, 385p., bib., ind., 23 cm X 15 cm |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Recommended by: Devina Sethia |
| 521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE | |
| Target audience note | Contents:<br/><br/> Introduction 1<br/>1 Logic, Dialectic, and Rhetoric 7<br/>1. The Viewpoint of Informal Logic 8<br/>2. The Old Dialectic of the Greeks 11<br/>3. The Opposition between Rhetoric and Dialectic 15<br/>4. Topics and Fallacies 19<br/>5. Persuasion, Social Influence, and Democracy 23<br/>6. Argumentation Schemes 26<br/>7. Basic Practical Reasoning 30<br/>8. Value-Based Practical Reasoning 34<br/>9. The Star Trek Example 37<br/>10. The Aims of Dialectical and Rhetorical Argumentation 41<br/>2 The Speech Act of Persuasion 46<br/>1. The Belief-Desire-Intention Approach and the Commitment<br/>Approach 47<br/>2. Basic Components of Persuasion 53<br/>3. Chaining of Argumentation 56<br/>4. Types of Dialogue 60<br/>5. Deliberation 64<br/>6. Closing of the Deliberation Dialogue 66<br/>7. Acts of Persuasion, Inducement, and Making a Threat 69<br/>8. Negotiation Dialogue and Persuasion 73<br/>9. Relevance and Argument Diagramming 79<br/>10. The Cognitive Component of Persuasion 84<br/>11. The New Definition of the Speech Act of Persuasion<br/>Propaganda 91<br/>1. Negative Connotations 92<br/>2. Public Discourse and Reason 96<br/>3. Appeal to the People Revisited 99<br/>4. The Dialectical Viewpoint on Propaganda 104<br/>5. Persuasion and Propaganda 106<br/>6. Characteristics of Propaganda 109<br/>7. Is Propaganda Necessarily Dishonest or Irrational? 114<br/>8. Openness to Contrary Evidence 117<br/>9. Deceptiveness and Relevance in Propaganda 120<br/>10. Evaluating Argumentation in Propaganda 122<br/>4 Appeals to Fear and Pity 127<br/>1. Appeals to Fear and Pity in Mass Media 128<br/>2. Appeals to Fear 131<br/>3. Appeals to Pity 134<br/>4. The Respondent-to-Dialogue Problem 138<br/>5. Simulative Reasoning 142<br/>6. The Dual Process Model of Persuasion 145<br/>7. The Structure of Appeals to Fear 147<br/>8. The Structure of Appeals to Pity 150<br/>9. Multi-agent Structure of Both Types of Argument 153<br/>10. When Are Appeals to Fear and Pity Fallacious? 156<br/>5 Ad Hominem Arguments in Political Discourse 161<br/>1. Classifying the Types of Ad Hominem Argument 163<br/>2. The Circumstantial and Other Types 165<br/>3. Argument from Commitment 169<br/>4. The Gore Case 173<br/>5. The Battalino Case 177<br/>6. Classifying the Argument in the Battalino Case 180<br/>7. Evaluating the Argument in the Battalino Case 183<br/>8. Implicature and Innuendo 185<br/>9. Evaluating the Argument in the Gore Case 190<br/>10. Evaluating the Arguments Rhetorically and Dialectically 192<br/>6 Arguments Based on Popular Opinion 198<br/>1. Influencing the Mass Audience 199<br/>2. Appeal to Popular Opinion as an Argument 202<br/>3. Cases in Point 204<br/>4. The Form of the Argument 207<br/>5. Fallacious Appeals to Popular Opinion 211<br/>6. Endoxa in Greek Dialectic 213<br/>7. Public Opinion as Informed Deliberation 215<br/>8. A More Careful Basis for Evaluating Cases<br/>9. Viewing the Public as an Agent 222<br/>10. Evaluating Appeal to Popular Opinion 224<br/>7 Fallacies and Bias in Public Opinion Polling 228<br/>1. Definitions and Sampling Surveys 229<br/>2. Question Wording and Emotive Bias in Polls 235<br/>3. The Structure of the Question 239<br/>4. Forcing an Answer 244<br/>5. Use of Polls by Advocacy Groups 249<br/>6. The Advent of Deliberative Polling 254<br/>7. Argumentation Schemes and Critical Questions 259<br/>8. Using Formal Dialectical Models of Argumentation 263<br/>9. Combining Dialectical and Empirical Methods 267<br/>10. Conclusion and Summary of Fallacies 270<br/>8 Persuasive Definitions and Public Policy Arguments 275<br/>1. Stevenson’s Theory of Persuasive Definitions 276<br/>2. Cases of Public Redefinitions 281<br/>3. Wider Implications of These Cases 288<br/>4. Definitions in the New Dialectic 292<br/>5. Proof of Legitimacy of Persuasive Definitions 297<br/>6. Argumentation Schemes Relating to Definitions 300<br/>7. The Speech Act of Defining 308<br/>8. Evaluating Persuasive Definitions 310<br/>9. What Should the Rules for Persuasive Definitions Be? 316<br/>10. Conclusions 319<br/>9 The Structure of Media Argumentation 323<br/>1. Rhetoric and Dialectic Reconfigured 324<br/>2. The Respondent-to-Dialogue Problem Revisited 327<br/>3. Direct and Indirect Media Argumentation 330<br/>4. Star Trek: The Rhetorical Dimension 334<br/>5. Argumentation Strategies 338<br/>6. Plan Recognition 342<br/>7. The Solution to the RTD Problem 347<br/>8. Fifteen Basic Components of Media Argumentation 350<br/>9. The Persuasion System 353<br/>10. Computational Dialectics for Rhetorical Invention<br/> |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| General subdivision | reasoning |
| -- | fallacies |
| -- | logic |
| -- | mass media |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | KEIC | KEIC | 08/29/2023 | Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. | 3862.90 | TB1435 | 2 | 6 | 168 WAL | 22538 | 04/15/2024 | 01/12/2024 | 2511.00 | 08/29/2023 | Books |