Media argumentation
Subtitle: dialectic, persuasion, and rhetoric
By: Douglas Walton.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780521876902; 9780521700306
Subjects: Reasoning; Fallacies (Logic); Mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Logic, dialectic, and rhetoric; title: The speech act of persuasion; title: Propaganda; title: Appeals to fear and pity; title: Ad hominem arguments in political discourse; title: Arguments based on popular opinion; title: Fallacies and bias in public opinion polling; title: Persuasive definitions and public policy; title: Arguments; title: The structure of media argumentation.