Strategic manuevering in the background: How candidates encourage audience inference making through silent derogation in the background. Commentary

Authors
Publication date 2018
Host editors
  • S. Oswald
  • D. Maillat
Book title Argumentation and Inference
Book subtitle Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Argumentation
ISBN
  • 9783848902831
Series Studies in logic
Event 2nd European Conference on Argumentation
Volume | Issue number 1
Pages (from-to) 435-438
Publisher London: College Publications
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract It is common for televised political debates to include split-screen shots which give the non-speaking opponent an opportunity to engage in nonverbal argumentation during an opponent’s turn. In this paper we reconstruct this communicative move as a case of strategic maneuvering. We address three questions about this behavior. Given 1) dialectical obligations, 2) rhetorical possibilities, and 3) preconditions of the activity type, what counts as reasonable and effective instances of this strategic maneuver in televised political debates? 
Document type Conference contribution
Note Commentary on: H. Weger, D. Mohammed (2018) Strategic manuevering in the background: How candidates encourage audience inference making through silent derogation in the background. Argumentation and Inference : proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Argumentation, pp. 411-434.
Language English
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