The Language of Persuasion in Politics: An Introduction
Author:   Alan Partington (University of Bologna, Italy) ,  Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   246
Publication Date:   02 October 2017
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Author:   Alan Partington (University of Bologna, Italy) ,  Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.416kg
ISBN:  

9781138038486


ISBN 10:   1138038482
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   02 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Chapter 1: Politics and the language of persuasion. Chapter 2: Evaluation: what’s good and what’s bad. Chapter 3: Ways of persuading Chapter 4: Cave Emptor! Arguments good and bad, true and false, logical and non-logical Chapter 5: The rhetoric of liberty, freedom, and emancipation. Chapter 6: The importance of importance marking in persuasion. Chapter 7: Metaphors and company: the subtle persuaders. Chapter 8: Questions and responses. Chapter 9: Humour, irony and satire in politics. Chapter 10: The language of election and referendum campaigns.

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Alan Partington is Professor of Political Linguistics at Bologna University, Italy. He is the author of Patterns and Meanings in Discourse (with Alison Duguid and Charlotte Taylor, 2013), The Linguistics of Laughter: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-talk at the White House (Routledge, 2007), Persuasion in Politics (with Charlotte Taylor, 2006) and The Linguistics of Political Argument (Routledge, 2003). Charlotte Taylor lectures in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Sussex (UK) and is editor of CADAAD Journal. Her publications include Mock Politeness in English and Italian (2016), Patterns and Meanings in Discourse (with Alison Duguid and Alan Partington, 2013) and Persuasion in Politics (with Alan Partington, 2010).

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