TY - CHAP
T1 - Strategic Maneuvering Through Persuasive Definitions
T2 - Implications for Dialectic and Rhetoric
AU - Zarefsky, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In the pragma-dialectical research program, strategic maneuvering refers to processes of seeking rhetorical advantage while meeting one’s dialectical obligations. One principal means of strategic maneuvering is the use of persuasive definitions, those in which connotations are changed while keeping the denotation constant, or vice-versa. Brief examples and an extended case study (the labeling of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks as “war”) demonstrate that strategic maneuvering functions analogously, if not identically, in dialectic and rhetoric. This essay, based on a lecture at the University of Amsterdam, was originally published in Argumentation, 20 (2006), 399–416, published by Springer, and is reprinted by permission.
AB - In the pragma-dialectical research program, strategic maneuvering refers to processes of seeking rhetorical advantage while meeting one’s dialectical obligations. One principal means of strategic maneuvering is the use of persuasive definitions, those in which connotations are changed while keeping the denotation constant, or vice-versa. Brief examples and an extended case study (the labeling of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks as “war”) demonstrate that strategic maneuvering functions analogously, if not identically, in dialectic and rhetoric. This essay, based on a lecture at the University of Amsterdam, was originally published in Argumentation, 20 (2006), 399–416, published by Springer, and is reprinted by permission.
KW - Dialectic
KW - Framing
KW - Persuasive definition
KW - Pragma-dialectics
KW - Strategic maneuvering
KW - Terrorism
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-05485-8_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-05485-8_11
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85094972396
T3 - Argumentation Library
SP - 129
EP - 143
BT - Argumentation Library
PB - Springer Nature
ER -