What we hide in words: Emotive words and persuasive definitions

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1997-2013

  Macagno, Fabrizio ^a   Walton, Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Argument from values; Argumentation; Argumentation schemes; Enthymemes; Persuasion dialogue

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952886727     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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