Chapter 2. The rhetorical and argumentative potentials of press photography
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Jens E. Kjeldsen
Abstract
This chapter demonstrates the rhetorical and argumentative potentials of press photographs. More specifically, it examines photographs of the terrorist attacks on the USA on 9/11, 2001, and photographs of the Syrian toddler, Aylan Kurdi, who drowned during the migrant crisis in Europe in autumn of 2015. The chapter examines how these photographs exhibit argumentative dimensions and are used in argumentative ways in specific situations. A rhetorical, situational and textual-contextual approach demonstrates how a 9/11 photograph performed epideictic rhetorical functions, and how the images of Aylan Kurdi performed deliberative rhetorical functions. The chapter also examines the counter-argumentation to the Aylan Kurdi images and the widespread appropriation of the images into new argumentative forms.
Abstract
This chapter demonstrates the rhetorical and argumentative potentials of press photographs. More specifically, it examines photographs of the terrorist attacks on the USA on 9/11, 2001, and photographs of the Syrian toddler, Aylan Kurdi, who drowned during the migrant crisis in Europe in autumn of 2015. The chapter examines how these photographs exhibit argumentative dimensions and are used in argumentative ways in specific situations. A rhetorical, situational and textual-contextual approach demonstrates how a 9/11 photograph performed epideictic rhetorical functions, and how the images of Aylan Kurdi performed deliberative rhetorical functions. The chapter also examines the counter-argumentation to the Aylan Kurdi images and the widespread appropriation of the images into new argumentative forms.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction. Argumentation and rhetoric in visual and multimodal communication 1
- Chapter 1. Rhetoric, argumentation, and persuasion in a multimodal perspective 25
- Chapter 2. The rhetorical and argumentative potentials of press photography 51
- Chapter 3. Editorial cartoons and ART 81
- Chapter 4. Arguing with illustrations 111
- Chapter 5. Perspective by incongruity 137
- Chapter 6. The argumentative relevance of visual and multimodal antithesis in Frederick Wiseman’s documentaries 165
- Chapter 7. Seeing the untold 189
- Chapter 8. Employing film form and style in the argumentative analysis of political advertising 217
- Chapter 9. Embodied argumentation in public debates 239
- Chapter 10. The “seeds” of charisma 263
- Name index 291
- Subject index 295
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction. Argumentation and rhetoric in visual and multimodal communication 1
- Chapter 1. Rhetoric, argumentation, and persuasion in a multimodal perspective 25
- Chapter 2. The rhetorical and argumentative potentials of press photography 51
- Chapter 3. Editorial cartoons and ART 81
- Chapter 4. Arguing with illustrations 111
- Chapter 5. Perspective by incongruity 137
- Chapter 6. The argumentative relevance of visual and multimodal antithesis in Frederick Wiseman’s documentaries 165
- Chapter 7. Seeing the untold 189
- Chapter 8. Employing film form and style in the argumentative analysis of political advertising 217
- Chapter 9. Embodied argumentation in public debates 239
- Chapter 10. The “seeds” of charisma 263
- Name index 291
- Subject index 295
