Cognitive Rhetoric
The cognitive poetics of political discourse
Editor
This book sets out a framework for investigating audience responses to political discourse. It starts from the premise that audiences are active participants who bring their own background knowledge and political standpoint to the communicative event. To operationalise this perspective, the volume draws on concepts from classical rhetoric alongside contemporary research in cognitive stylistics and cognitive linguistics (including schema theory, Text World Theory, Cognitive Grammar, and mind-modelling, amongst others). It examines the role played by the speaker’s identity, the arguments they make, and the emotions of the audience in the – often critical – reception of political text and talk, using a diversity of examples to illustrate this three-dimensional approach – from political speeches, interviews and newspaper articles, to more creative text-types such as politicised rap music, television satire and filmic drama. The result of this wide-ranging application is a holistic and systematic account of the rhetorical and ideological effects of political discourse in reception.
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 31] 2018. xi, 235 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 9 October 2018
Published online on 9 October 2018
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. ix–x
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List of figures | pp. xi–xii
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Chapter 1. Preliminaries | pp. 1–24
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Part I. Ethos
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Chapter 2. Layers of ethos | pp. 27–58
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Chapter 3. The conceptual ecology of ethos | pp. 59–90
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Part II. Logos
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Chapter 4. Logos as representation | pp. 93–122
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Chapter 5. Logos as conceptual mapping | pp. 123–150
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Part III. Pathos
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Chapter 6. Rhetorical ambience | pp. 153–178
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Chapter 7. Political resonance | pp. 179–202
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Chapter 8. Conclusion | pp. 203–210
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References
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Transcription conventions used in this book
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Appendix A. Transcription conventions used in this book | p. 227
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Appendix B. Excerpt from Theresa May’s speech to the 2015 Conservative Party conference | pp. 229–230
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Appendix C. The lessons of history for Jeremy Corbyn | pp. 231–232
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Index | pp. 233–235
“Overall the book is a novel contribution to political and critical discourse analysis.”
Terry McDonough, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, in Journal of Language and Politics Vol. 19:2 (2020)
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Subjects
Communication Studies
Literature & Literary Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics