The Routledge Handbook of Language and Persuasion

This handbook provides a wide-ranging, authoritative and cutting-edge overview of language and persuasion. Featuring a range of international contributors, the handbook outlines the basic materials of linguistic persuasion.

Auteur

Jeanne Fahnestock is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, USA.

Randy Allen Harris is a Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

*Randy Allen Harris and Jeanne Fahnestock

Part I. Basic Constituents of Rhetorical Persuasion

Chapter 1. Patterns of Argument: Aristotelian Topoi and Argumentation Schemes

Christopher W. Tindale

Chapter 2. A Reason to Feel: Rhetorical Style and Pathotic Enthymemes in Political Discourse

*Cameron Mozafari

• Chapter 3. Exploring Expert Appeals to Ethos with Statistical Corpus Analysis: Personal and Contextual Factors and Their Influence on Climate Scientists' Use of Appeals to Expertise

*James Wynn

• Chapter 4. Stasis: Moving People to Action

*Davida Charney

• Chapter 5. Making Meaning out of Texts: An Approach through the Interpretive Stases

Martin Camper

**Chapter 6. Using Examples to Misrepresent the World

*Michael Billig and Cristina Marinho

• Part II. Enduring Features of Persuasive Language

Chapter 7. Sonic Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Spoken Language * Gabrijela KiSicek

• Chapter 8. Humor

*Chris Holcomb and Heather Buzbee

• Chapter 9. Strategic Questioning

*Cornelia Ilie

• Chapter 10. Evaluating to Persuade in Statistical Framing: A Conceptual Tool for Rhetors and Audiences

*Daniel Libertz

• Chapter 11. A Framework for Understanding Polarizing Language

*William Donohue and Mark Hamilton

• Part III. Figures of Speech in Persuasion

Chapter 12. The Tropes: Metaphor and its Friends * Randy Allen Harris

*Chapter 13. The Rhetoric of *Prosopopoeia: Persuading in Others' Voices

*Bryan Blankfield

• Chapter 14. Phantasia, Enargeia, and Catachresis: Use and Abuse of Metaphors in Korean Political Discourse

*Mansup Heo

• Chapter 15. The Proleptic Suite

*Ashley Mehlenbacher

• Chapter 16. Litotes and Repetition: The Identification Engine in Classic Chinese Maxims

*Ying Yuan

• Part IV. Fields and Genres of Persuasion

Chapter 17. The Languages of Science

*Alan Gross

• Chapter 18. Legal/Forensic Persuasion

*James Jasinski

• Chapter 19. Asian American Persuasion: The Subtleties of Speaking with Others' Words

*Jennifer Lin LeMesurier

• Chapter 20. Interactivity in Genre Forms: Ceremonial and Legislative

Government Apologies as Distinct Rhetorical Acts Toward Reconciliation

*Martha S. Cheng

• Chapter 21. Persuasion in Songs of Protest: Deliberation Through Metaphors and Music in South African Struggle Songs

*Sisanda Nkoala

*Chapter 22. Games, Language, and Persuasion

*Steve Wilcox

• Chapter 23. Multi-Genre Arguing in the Sciences: The Genetics of Longevity Controversy

*Jeanne Fahnestock

• Chapter 24. Propaganda

John Oddo

Part V. Roots of Persuasion

Chapter 25. The Development of Persuasive Communication: Animals and the Evolved Mind

*Alex C. Parrish

• Chapter 26. Young Children's Argumentative Contributions

*Sara Greco and Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont

• Chapter 27. Persuasive Language Development: The Case of Irony and Humour in Children's Language

*Penny M. Pexman

• Chapter 28. Grounding Cognition: Intersections of Rhetorical Theory and Cognitive Science

*Todd Oakley

• Part VI. Methods of Examining Persuasive Language

Chapter 29. Computer-aided Close Reading: Visualizing Contrastive Persuasion Strategies

*David Kaufer and Suguru Ishizaki

• Chapter 30. Computer-based Analysis: Argument Mining

John Lawrence and Jacky Visser

Glossary

Index