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dc.contributor.authorInnocenti, Beth
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-26T21:31:29Z
dc.date.available2010-04-26T21:31:29Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.identifier.citationManolescu, Beth Innocenti. "A Normative Pragmatic Perspective on Appealing to Emotions in Argumentation." Argumentation 20 (2006): 327-43.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/6165
dc.descriptionThis is the author's accepted manuscript. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.
dc.description.abstractIs appealing to emotions in argumentation ever legitimate and, if so, what is the best way to analyze and evaluate such appeals? After overviewing a normative pragmatic perspective on appealing to emotions in argumentation, I present answers to these questions from pragma-dialectical, informal logical, and rhetorical perspectives, and note positions shared and supplemented by a normative pragmatic perspective. A normative pragmatic perspective holds that appealing to emotions in argumentation may be relevant and non-manipulative; and that emotional appeals may be analyzed as strategies that create pragmatic reasons and assessed by the standard of formal propriety or reasonability under the circumstances. I illustrate the explanatory power of the perspective by analyzing and evaluating some argumentation from Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July." I conclude that a normative pragmatic perspective offers a more complete account of appealing to emotions in argumentation than a pragma-dialectial, informal logical, or rhetorical perspective alone, identifies a range of norms available to arguers, and explains why appealing to emotions may be legitimate in particular cases of argumentation.
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Verlag
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://www.springerlink.com/content/2084412314945872/fulltext.pdf
dc.subjectNormative Pragmatics
dc.subjectEmotional Appeal
dc.subjectPragma-dialectics
dc.subjectInformal Logic
dc.subjectRhetoric
dc.subjectDouglass, Frederick
dc.titleA Normative Pragmatic Perspective on Appealing to Emotions in Argumentation
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorInnocenti, Beth
kusw.kudepartmentCommunication Studies
kusw.oastatusfullparticipation
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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