The Pragmatics of Cogent Argumentation in British and American Political Debates (original) (raw)

I this analytical work, the author pragmatically tackles the communicative interactional process of cogent argumentation in British prime ministerial and American presidential political debates. The book considers and evaluates prime ministerial and presidential political debates with regard to pragma (logical, dialectical, and rhetorical) means that constitute the components of cogent arguments within the process of cogent argumentation. These means are achieved through pragma logical (data, wart, claim, backing, rebuttal, and qualifier), pragma dialectical (speeh acts), praga rhetorical (argumentative appeals, politeness, and figures of speech) strategies. Cogent argumentation is a process that involves two candidates exchanging cogent arguments where it ends with one candidate's arguments more cogent than the other one