Journal of Pragmatics 191:67-82 (2022)
Authors |
|
Abstract |
The detection of hate speech and fake news in political discourse is at the same time a crucial necessity for democratic societies and a challenge for several areas of study. However, most of the studies have focused on what is explicitly stated: false article information, language that expresses hatred, derogatory expressions. This paper argues that the explicit dimension of manipulation is only one – and the least problematic – of the risks of political discourse. The language of the unsaid is much more dangerous and incomparably more difficult to detect, hidden in different types of fallacies and inappropriate uses of emotive language. Through a threefold coding scheme based on the instruments of argumentation theory and pragmatics, a corpus of argumentative tweets published by 4 politicians (Matteo Salvini, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, and Joseph Biden) within 6 months from their taking office (corresponding to the official end of their election campaign) is analyzed, detecting the types of argument, the fallacies, and the uses and misuses of “emotive words.” This coding results in the argumentation profiles of the speakers, which are compared statistically to show their different implicit strategies and deceptive tactics.
|
Keywords | pragmatics manipulation propaganda discourse analysis fallacies argumentation |
Categories | (categorize this paper) |
Options |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Download options
References found in this work BETA
Argumentation Schemes.Douglas Walton, Chris Reed & Fabrizio Macagno - 2008 - Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Commitment in Dialogue: Basic Concepts of Interpersonal Reasoning.Douglas Neil Walton & Erik C. W. Krabbe - 1995 - Albany, NY, USA: State University of New York Press.
The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation.Chaïm Perelman & Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca - 1969 - Notre Dame, IN, USA: Notre Dame University Press.
View all 80 references / Add more references
Citations of this work BETA
Similar books and articles
Persuasive Argumentation Versus Manipulation.Ana Laura Nettel & Georges Roque - 2012 - Argumentation 26 (1):55-69.
Ad Hominem Arguments in Practical Argumentation.Eerik Lagerspetz - 1995 - Argumentation 9 (2):363-370.
Reconstructing Interactive Argumentative Discourse.Margareth Sandvik - 1997 - Argumentation 11 (4):419-434.
Trust, Distrust, and Trustworthiness in Argumentation: Virtues and Fallacies.Suzanne McMurphy - unknown
Which of the Fallacies Are Fallacies of Relevance?Douglas N. Walton - 1992 - Argumentation 6 (2):237-250.
Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation.Fabrizio Macagno & Douglas Walton - 2017 - Amsterdam: Springer.
The Role of Argumentative Strategies in the Construction of Emergent Common Ground in a Patient-Centered Approach to the Medical Encounter.Sarah Bigi - 2018 - Journal of Argumentation in Context 7 (2):141-156.
Quotations and Presumptions: Dialogical Effects of Misquotations.Douglas Walton & Fabrizio Macagno - 2011 - Informal Logic 31 (1):27-55.
A Pragma-Dialectical Approach of the Analysis and Evaluation of Pragmatic Argumentation in a Legal Context.Eveline T. Feteris - 2002 - Argumentation 16 (3):349-367.
Manipulare, seductie si ideologie ostensiva/ Manipulation, Seduction and Ostensive Ideology.Aurel Codoban - 2003 - Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 2 (4):122-138.
Argumentative Patterns of Right-Wing Populism.David Lanius - 2020 - In Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Henrike Jansen, Jan Albert Van Laar & Bart Verheij (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation. Groningen: College Publications. pp. 77-98.
Analytics
Added to PP index
2022-02-18
Total views
220 ( #51,378 of 2,505,137 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
220 ( #2,415 of 2,505,137 )
2022-02-18
Total views
220 ( #51,378 of 2,505,137 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
220 ( #2,415 of 2,505,137 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Downloads