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Book: Argumentation in Political Interviews

Aug 09

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Title: Argumentation in Political Interviews
Subtitle: Analyzing and evaluating responses to accusations of inconsistency
Series Title: Argumentation in Context 5

Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/aic.5

Author: Corina Andone

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027271754 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 128.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027271754 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 85.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027271754 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 71.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027211224 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 90.10
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027211224 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 71.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027211224 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 128.00

Abstract:

In Argumentation in Political Interviews Corina Andone uses the
pragma-dialectical concept of strategic maneuvering to gain a better
understanding of political interviews as argumentative practices. She analyzes
and evaluates the way in which politicians react in political interviews to
the accusation that the position they currently hold is inconsistent with a
position they advanced before. The politicians’ responses to such charges are
examined for their strategic function by concentrating on a number of concrete
cases and explaining how the arguers try to enhance their chances of winning
the discussion. In addition, the soundness criteria are formulated for judging
properly when the politicians’ responses are indeed reasonable.This book is
important to argumentation theorists, discourse analysts, communication
scholars and all other researchers and students interested in the way in which
language is used for the purpose of persuasion in a political context. Corina
Andone is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory
and Rhetoric at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam in
the Netherlands.