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Cognitive Rhetoric: The cognitive poetics of political discourse
Sam Browse
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 31] 2018
► pp. v–viii

Table of contents

AcknowledgementsIX

List of figuresXI

Chapter 1.Preliminaries1

1.1Introduction1

1.2Political discourse2

1.3Political/critical discourse analysis7

1.4Classical rhetoric9

1.5Stylistics12

1.6Cognitive stylistics18

1.7Summary of aims and methods20

1.8The structure of this book21

Part I.Ethos

Chapter 2.Layers of ethos27

2.1Introduction27

2.2Ethos, ethics, and narrative theory28

2.3Layers of ethos30

2.4The implied author in political discourse35

2.5The narrator – the orchestrator43

2.6The speaker/s52

2.7Summary57

Chapter 3.The conceptual ecology of ethos59

3.1Introduction59

3.2The cognitive dynamics of impression formation60

3.3From dialect to style63

3.4From style to cognition69

3.5Performance models73

3.6Character schemata78

3.7Reading political minds83

3.8Summary88

Part II.Logos

Chapter 4.Logos as representation93

4.1Introduction93

4.2Common ground and the enthymeme96

4.3Mind modelling and the idealised common ground98

4.4A (cognitive) grammar of resistance103

4.5Re-specifying and resistant reading107

4.6Re-scoping and resistant reading110

4.7Re-profiling, re-scanning, and resistant reading113

4.8Irony as resistance118

4.9Summary121

Chapter 5.Logos as conceptual mapping123

5.1Introduction123

5.2Mapping and example123

5.3Metaphor and/as example132

5.4Resisting example134

5.5Satire as example142

5.6Politics in The Thick of It 143

5.7 The Thick of It in politics144

5.8Summary148

Part III.Pathos

Chapter 6.Rhetorical ambience153

6.1Introduction153

6.2Affect and emotion154

6.3Emotion in political discourse analysis158

6.4Ambience162

6.5Tone163

6.6Atmosphere164

6.7Rhetorical ambience166

6.8Ambience and affect in immigration rhetoric168

6.9Summary177

Chapter 7.Political resonance179

7.1Introduction179

7.2Political resonance180

7.3An attentional model183

7.4A resonant speech187

7.5Shared myths and the lacunae in the past190

7.6Ann Nixon Cooper and the resonant feedback crescendo193

7.7The future is now198

7.8Summary201

Chapter 8.Conclusion203

8.1Overview203

8.2Experimental methods204

8.3Ethnographies of response205

8.4Politics, cognition, and the corpus206

8.5Economies of interpretation207

8.6Persuasion208

8.7The sense of being there209

8.8Conclusion210

References211

Appendices227

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