Routledge Handbook of Language and Persuasion

Jeanne Fahnestock is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, USA.Randy Allen Harris is a Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsRhetoric, Linguistics, and the Study of Persuasion: An Overview and an IntroductionRandy Allen Harris and Jeanne FahnestockPart I. Basic Constituents of Rhetorical PersuasionChapter 1. Patterns of Argument: Aristotelian Topoi and Argumentation SchemesChristopher W. Tindale Chapter 2. A Reason to Feel: Rhetorical Style and Pathotic Enthymemes in Political DiscourseCameron MozafariChapter 3. Exploring Expert Appeals to Ethos with Statistical Corpus Analysis: Personal and Contextual Factors and Their Influence on Climate Scientists’ Use of Appeals to ExpertiseJames WynnChapter 4. Stasis: Moving People to ActionDavida CharneyChapter 5. Making Meaning out of Texts: An Approach through the Interpretive StasesMartin Camper Chapter 6. Using Examples to Misrepresent the WorldMichael Billig and Cristina MarinhoPart II. Enduring Features of Persuasive LanguageChapter 7. Sonic Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Spoken LanguageGabrijela KišičekChapter 8. HumorChris Holcomb and Heather BuzbeeChapter 9. Strategic QuestioningCornelia IlieChapter 10. Evaluating to Persuade in Statistical Framing: A Conceptual Tool for Rhetors and AudiencesDaniel LibertzChapter 11. A Framework for Understanding Polarizing LanguageWilliam Donohue and Mark HamiltonPart III. Figures of Speech in PersuasionChapter 12. The Tropes: Metaphor and its Friends Randy Allen HarrisChapter 13. The Rhetoric of Prosopopoeia: Persuading in Others’ VoicesBryan BlankfieldChapter 14. Phantasia, Enargeia, and Catachresis: Use and Abuse of Metaphors in Korean Political DiscourseMansup HeoChapter 15. The Proleptic SuiteAshley MehlenbacherChapter 16. Litotes and Repetition: The Identification Engine in Classic Chinese MaximsYing YuanPart IV. Fields and Genres of PersuasionChapter 17. The Languages of ScienceAlan GrossChapter 18. Legal/Forensic PersuasionJames JasinskiChapter 19. Asian American Persuasion: The Subtleties of Speaking with Others’ WordsJennifer Lin LeMesurierChapter 20. Interactivity in Genre Forms: Ceremonial and LegislativeGovernment Apologies as Distinct Rhetorical Acts Toward ReconciliationMartha S. ChengChapter 21. Persuasion in Songs of Protest: Deliberation Through Metaphors and Music in South African Struggle SongsSisanda NkoalaChapter 22. Games, Language, and PersuasionSteve WilcoxChapter 23. Multi-Genre Arguing in the Sciences: The Genetics of Longevity Controversy Jeanne FahnestockChapter 24. PropagandaJohn Oddo Part V. Roots of Persuasion Chapter 25. The Development of Persuasive Communication: Animals and the Evolved MindAlex C. ParrishChapter 26. Young Children’s Argumentative ContributionsSara Greco and Anne-Nelly Perret-ClermontChapter 27. Persuasive Language Development: The Case of Irony and Humour in Children’s LanguagePenny M. PexmanChapter 28. Grounding Cognition: Intersections of Rhetorical Theory and Cognitive ScienceTodd OakleyPart VI. Methods of Examining Persuasive LanguageChapter 29. Computer-aided Close Reading: Visualizing Contrastive Persuasion StrategiesDavid Kaufer and Suguru IshizakiChapter 30. Computer-based Analysis: Argument MiningJohn Lawrence and Jacky VisserGlossaryIndex