This book provides an in-depth look into the cognitive and argumentative nature of political discourse with a focus on the role and place of conceptual metaphors in practical argumentation. Neagu's empirical investigation centres on the corpus of the American Presidential debates in 2008 and speeches by Barack Obama from 2009-2011.
This book provides an in-depth look into the cognitive and argumentative nature of political discourse with a focus on the role and place of conceptua...
Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue is about the rediscovery of humans as proficient users of language in the sense that while involved in a dialogue they listen, observe, discuss, reason, evaluate and conclude; in other words, speakers are no longer interested in defeating the other and proving him/her wrong, but in learning from the other. The volume comprises 12 articles, distributed in two sections Persuasion in Political Dialogue and Persuasive Strategies in Professional Dialogue which approach the topic of persuasion as it unfolds...
Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue is about the rediscovery of humans as proficient users of language in the sense that wh...
This transdisciplinary study gathers research papers that reveal the multifarious facets of the concept of "persuasion". It is argued that regardless of its degree of intentionality, the act of persuasion underlying each information item prompts the interlocutors to cross the borders of political, historical, linguistic, narrative, psychotherapeutic, and even marketing configurations. The contributors' contention is that political thinking and ideology-grounded linguistic patterns act as a form of social control, both informing and shaping the sense of identity of the manipulated masses and...
This transdisciplinary study gathers research papers that reveal the multifarious facets of the concept of "persuasion". It is argued that regardless ...
"The contributors to the volume, coming from different areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences, address several timely and important issues that bring together richly diverse perspectives and advance current debates in a range of fields, by carefully decoding literary texts covering a large timespan, as well as political discourse, the discourse of advertising, the discourse of education, and transpersonal discourse." -Professor Arleen Ionescu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Every transdisciplinary study on voyage and/or emotion will offer new ...
"The contributors to the volume, coming from different areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences, address several timely and important issues t...
Multimodality is the notion which stands behind the most fertile investigations in communication and language studies nowadays. Multimodal depiction of the surrounding world helps the child to better conceptualise, objectify, and reify abstract notions. Even before children learn to talk, they activate their soft skills, the so-called life/human competences or social skills, and they employ multimodal communication pertaining to gestures and sounds in order to interact. Therefore, when knowledge of the brain and body intertwines with social and emotional intelligence, it fosters human...
Multimodality is the notion which stands behind the most fertile investigations in communication and language studies nowadays. Multimodal depiction ...