Political Argumentation in Early America

Informal Fallacies in Selected Debates 1789 to 1800

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This book investigates the language used by protagonists in four major political debates in the early history of the United States. In each case there was a sharp disagreement between groups of politicians representing different points of view, and each event was significant from the point of view of the political history of the United States.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-03-20
Mått148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt361 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor175
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031833342

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Juhani Rudanko is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Tampere University, Finland. He has written books and articles on the system of English predicate complementation, including Complementation and Case Grammar (1989) and Changes in Complementation in British and American English (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and on the application of diachronic pragmatics and fallacy theory to the language of political argumentation in early American history, including Discourses of Freedom of Speech (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).Paul Rickman is University Instructor in English Language at the University of Tampere, Finland. His research interests include complementation, New Zealand English, phonetics, English accent variation, corpus linguistics, and historical pragmatics, and he has published on a number of these topics. His first book-length publication (Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English, 2018) was one of several collaborative projects with Juhani Rudanko.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. A Covert Intention and ad socordiam in a Congressional Debate in 1789.- Chapter 3. Abridging Freedom of Speech: Argumentation for the Sedition Act in 1798.- Chapter 4. Arguing for the Logan Act of 1799: Robert Harper’s Speech on December 27, 1798.- Chapter 5. “A Dagger into Your Social Existence”: Argumentation in Two New York Newspapers in the Spring of 1800.- Chapter 6. Concluding Observations.