Bending Opinion : Essays on Persuasion in the Public Domain / / edited by Ton van Haaften ... [et al.].

• TeilnehmendeR: Haaften, Ton van.
• Place / Publishing House: [Leiden] : : Leiden University Press, 2011.; ©2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Rhetoric in society.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (455 pages) :; illustrations, portraits.

Rhetoric is, from both a practical and a theoretical perspective, essential to the conduct, analysis and evaluation of public debates. After all, the idea of Democracy is closely intertwined with the ideal of transparent decision-making on the basis of open high-quality discussions in the public dom...

Table of Contents

• Deliberation, free speech and the marketplace of ideas / Ineke Sluiter
• Rhetoric, classicism and democracy: the conveyance of moral and political values in late antique rhetorical education / Manfred Kraus
• Melody and rhythm in ancient political discourse. On how emotions induce persuasion / Marie Formarier
• Generalizing stasis theory for everyday use / Christian Kock
• Rhetoric and argumentation / J. Anthony Blair
• Generalizing about the persuasive effects of message variations: the case of gain-framed and loss-framed appeals / Daniel J. O'Keefe
• The contribution of praeteritio to arguers' strategic maneuvering in the argumentation stage of a discussion / A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans
• Limits and effects of reductio ad absurdum argumentation / Henrike Jansen, Marianne Dingemanse and Ingrid Persoon
• Professionalizing speech production. Changes in 15 years of ministerial speeches / Jaap de Jong and Bas Andeweg
• The correlation between style and argument in newspaper columns / Hilde van Belle
• If this goes on...: the rhetorical construction of future problems / Joel Best
• Exploring everyday ethos. Ethos techniques in online discussions about extraordinary experiences / Peter Burger and Lotte Anemaet
• The popular virgin and the wolf in sheep's clothing: a case study of the imaging of victims and offenders / Willem Koetsenruijter and Gabry Vanderveen
• "Conceptual and fanciful" or "a depiction of reality": exploiting visual modality to claim environmental ethos in UK advertizements [sic] for automotive and energy companies (2007-2008) / Susan Hogben
• Rhetoric and the (re)constitution of collective identity: the example of Poland / Cezar M. Ornatowski
• Symbolic power: political rhetoric in a state of exception / Bart van Klink, Olivier Lembcke and Pablo Leandro Ciocchini
• Do new parties bring personalization, a narrow issue agenda and populist rhetoric? Evidence from Dutch election campaign coverage from 1998 to 2006 / Janet Takens ... [et al.]
• Parliamentary debate and political culture: the Dutch case / Ton van Haaften
• Talking about sustainability: responses to frames in persuasive messages about sustainable agriculture and food / Baldwin Van Gorp and Margot van der Goot
• Responding to expert arguments: emerging lay topoi in focus group interviews on GM crops / Anders Horsbol
• Speaking of terror: challenging norms of rhetorical citizenship in Danish public discourse / Lisa Storm Villadsen
• Strategic maneuvering with linguistic arguments in the justification of judicial decisions / Eveline Feteris.