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6 Argumentation und Topik

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Handbuch Werberhetorik
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Abstract

This article examines the relationship between advertising and argumentation. If one follows the relevant definitions of argumentation, it is usually characterized as a rational method of securing claims to validity. Such protective acts only become necessary in case validity claims are questioned. Since advertising is in its essence not dialogical and its function is not grounded in protecting validity claims, it hardly seems to be accessible to argumentation-analytical categories. Contrary to such a view, it shall be argued in this paper that a pragmatically-oriented conception of argumentation can widen the view to consider advertising as a special form of conclusive speech acts, which utilizes argumentation schemes of everyday language. The orientation towards such topoi allows advertising formulations to benefit from this generally accepted plausibility. Consequently this orientation opens up new ways of increasing acceptance for the claims of validity that are often only implicit in advertising texts.

Abstract

This article examines the relationship between advertising and argumentation. If one follows the relevant definitions of argumentation, it is usually characterized as a rational method of securing claims to validity. Such protective acts only become necessary in case validity claims are questioned. Since advertising is in its essence not dialogical and its function is not grounded in protecting validity claims, it hardly seems to be accessible to argumentation-analytical categories. Contrary to such a view, it shall be argued in this paper that a pragmatically-oriented conception of argumentation can widen the view to consider advertising as a special form of conclusive speech acts, which utilizes argumentation schemes of everyday language. The orientation towards such topoi allows advertising formulations to benefit from this generally accepted plausibility. Consequently this orientation opens up new ways of increasing acceptance for the claims of validity that are often only implicit in advertising texts.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Vorwort der Reihenherausgeber V
  3. Vorwort VII
  4. Inhaltsverzeichnis XI
  5. I Die Rhetorik des Werbens – grundsätzliche Perspektiven
  6. 1 Werbung als Grundprinzip der Demokratie 1
  7. 2 Politische Werbung in nicht-demokratischen Systemen am Beispiel der DDR 25
  8. 3 Rhetorik und Ökonomie 57
  9. 4 Zur Rhetorik im Kontext von Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) 79
  10. 5 Kulturspezifik vs. Internationalisierung von Werberhetorik 97
  11. II Systematische Zugänge zur Werberhetorik
  12. 6 Argumentation und Topik 117
  13. 7 Rhetorische Figuren und ihre Funktionalität 137
  14. 8 Text-Bild-Rhetorik und visuelle Rhetorik 157
  15. 9 Die visuelle Rhetorik der Werbung: Design und aptum 179
  16. III Werberhetorik aus diachroner Perspektive
  17. 10 Rhetorik antiker und mittelalterlicher Werbung 191
  18. 11 Rhetorik der Werbung von 1450 bis 1800 215
  19. 12 Rhetorik der modernen Werbung I (19./20. Jh.) 235
  20. 13 Rhetorik der modernen Werbung II (Web) 255
  21. IV Formate des ökonomischen Werbens
  22. 14 Rhetorik und Ästhetik der Print- und Plakatwerbung 283
  23. 15 Rhetorik der Fernsehwerbung und audiovisueller Werbeformen 305
  24. 16 Rhetorik der Hörfunkwerbung und der Stimme 329
  25. 17 Rhetorik des Werbebriefs (off-/online) 353
  26. 18 Rhetorik von Online-Kurzformen 375
  27. 19 Rhetorik der Markenzeichen und Markennamen 397
  28. V Formate des politischen Werbens
  29. 20 Herrscherlob (Panegyrik) 413
  30. 21 Wahlprogramme und Wahlkampfreden 439
  31. 22 Kampagnenrhetorik 461
  32. 23 Wahl- und Abstimmungsplakate 483
  33. 24 Politische Online-Werbung 503
  34. VI Werberhetorik weiterer Domänen
  35. 25 Markenbildung in der Kultur 523
  36. 26 Rhetorik des Place-Branding 541
  37. 27 Rhetorik der sozialen Werbung 561
  38. 28 Die Rhetorik der Werbung im Sport 583
  39. 29 Wissenschafts-PR und Rhetorik 603
  40. 30 Argumentation und Werbung im umweltpolitischen Diskurs 623
  41. Übersicht Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger 645
  42. Sachregister 649
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