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Defining Functions Of Danish Political Commentary, Mette Bengtsson, Mary L. Kahl
Defining Functions Of Danish Political Commentary, Mette Bengtsson, Mary L. Kahl
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In Denmark political commentary is still a relatively new phenomenon. This paper analyzes the metadiscourse in relation to political commentary to identify the different understandings that have coalesced around political commentary as a genre. I argue that people in different positions (e.g. citizens, politicians, journalists, political editors, chief editors and political commentators themselves) emphasize different explanations for the rise of the genre and thereby functions of political commentary as part of an argumentative strategy favouring their own interests.
Deepening Disagreement In Engineering Education, Robert Irish, Brian Macpherson
Deepening Disagreement In Engineering Education, Robert Irish, Brian Macpherson
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This paper argues that deep disagreements stem from conflicting worldviews. In particular, I examine how recent moves in engineering education contribute to deep disagreement by inculcating stu-dents into valuing the environment as a key stakeholder in engineering design. However, some graduates who value the environment meet resistance from employers who hold a more traditional engineering worldview, which regards the environment as an externality. Clashing worldviews can, as Robert Fogelin posited, render rational resolution to argument impossible. Disputants must consider the emotional and rhetorical as means to move toward productive ground for argument. I offer two moves from classical rhet-oric–making an …
Structure Of Persuasive Communication And Elaboration Likelihood Model, Katarzyna Budzynska, Harry Weger Jr
Structure Of Persuasive Communication And Elaboration Likelihood Model, Katarzyna Budzynska, Harry Weger Jr
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The aim of the paper is to propose a framework for the structure of persuasive communica-tion based on the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) by Petty and Cacioppo, the Inference Anchoring Theory (IAT) by Budzynska and Reed and the Interpersonal (IP-) Argumentation Model by Budzynska. The ELM suggests that there are two routes to persuasion: central and peripheral. IAT assumes that com-munication acts generate their contents and inferences by means of illocutionary connections. The model of IP-argumentation provides the general representation of arguments in which the proponent refers to com-munication acts of some participant of communication. The paper discusses where exactly …