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A Normative Pragmatic Perspective on Appealing to Emotions in Argumentation
dc.contributor.author | Innocenti, Beth | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-04-26T21:31:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-04-26T21:31:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. "A Normative Pragmatic Perspective on Appealing to Emotions in Argumentation." Argumentation 20 (2006): 327-43. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6165 | |
dc.description | This is the author's accepted manuscript. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com. | |
dc.description.abstract | Is 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.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag | |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://www.springerlink.com/content/2084412314945872/fulltext.pdf | |
dc.subject | Normative Pragmatics | |
dc.subject | Emotional Appeal | |
dc.subject | Pragma-dialectics | |
dc.subject | Informal Logic | |
dc.subject | Rhetoric | |
dc.subject | Douglass, Frederick | |
dc.title | A Normative Pragmatic Perspective on Appealing to Emotions in Argumentation | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Innocenti, Beth | |
kusw.kudepartment | Communication Studies | |
kusw.oastatus | fullparticipation | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |