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Rhetoric and cognition

Pragmatic constraints on argument processing

Abstract

This chapter defends a cognitive-pragmatic take on rhetorical effectiveness by hypothesising that information-selection mechanisms at play in the interpretation of verbal stimuli positively influence the outcome of subsequent argumentative evaluation. Moreover, this chapter also shows that relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson 1995) is ideally well equipped to develop this assumption. Indeed, this chapter argues that the inclusion of a cognitive pragmatic component in a theory of argumentation can boost the explanatory power of existing accounts, which typically refrain from adopting the sort of cognitive insights offered by relevance theorists (cf. van Eemeren and Grootendorst 2004: 74). Accordingly, an example from political discourse is discussed in this framework to illustrate its explanatory advantages.

Abstract

This chapter defends a cognitive-pragmatic take on rhetorical effectiveness by hypothesising that information-selection mechanisms at play in the interpretation of verbal stimuli positively influence the outcome of subsequent argumentative evaluation. Moreover, this chapter also shows that relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson 1995) is ideally well equipped to develop this assumption. Indeed, this chapter argues that the inclusion of a cognitive pragmatic component in a theory of argumentation can boost the explanatory power of existing accounts, which typically refrain from adopting the sort of cognitive insights offered by relevance theorists (cf. van Eemeren and Grootendorst 2004: 74). Accordingly, an example from political discourse is discussed in this framework to illustrate its explanatory advantages.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction
  4. Three decades of relevance theory 1
  5. Part I: Issues on procedural meaning and procedural analyses
  6. The speaker’s derivational intention 33
  7. Cracking the chestnut 59
  8. Reference assignment in pronominal argument languages 81
  9. Conceptual and procedural information for verb tense disambiguation 103
  10. Part II: Discourse issues
  11. Relevance theory and contextual sources-centred analysis of irony 147
  12. Distinguishing rhetorical from ironical questions 173
  13. Part III: Interpretive processes
  14. Relevance theory, epistemic vigilance and pragmatic competence 193
  15. Evidentials, genre and epistemic vigilance 239
  16. Part IV: Rhetorical and perlocutionary effects of communication
  17. Rhetoric and cognition 261
  18. Perlocutionary effects and relevance theory 287
  19. Conclusion
  20. Some directions for future research in relevance-theoretic pragmatics 307
  21. Contributors 321
  22. Index 325
Relevance Theory
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Relevance Theory
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.268.10osw

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction
  4. Three decades of relevance theory 1
  5. Part I: Issues on procedural meaning and procedural analyses
  6. The speaker’s derivational intention 33
  7. Cracking the chestnut 59
  8. Reference assignment in pronominal argument languages 81
  9. Conceptual and procedural information for verb tense disambiguation 103
  10. Part II: Discourse issues
  11. Relevance theory and contextual sources-centred analysis of irony 147
  12. Distinguishing rhetorical from ironical questions 173
  13. Part III: Interpretive processes
  14. Relevance theory, epistemic vigilance and pragmatic competence 193
  15. Evidentials, genre and epistemic vigilance 239
  16. Part IV: Rhetorical and perlocutionary effects of communication
  17. Rhetoric and cognition 261
  18. Perlocutionary effects and relevance theory 287
  19. Conclusion
  20. Some directions for future research in relevance-theoretic pragmatics 307
  21. Contributors 321
  22. Index 325
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