scholarly journals Emotive Meaning in Political Argumentation

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-261
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Macagno ◽  
Douglas Walton
Keyword(s):  
Argumentation Schemes ◽  
Political Argumentation ◽  
Emotive Meaning

Donald Trump’s speeches and messages are characterized by terms that are commonly referred to as “thick” or “emotive,” meaning that they are characterized by a tendency to be used to generate emotive reactions. This paper investigates how emotive meaning is related to emotions, and how it is generated or manipulated. Emotive meaning is analyzed as an evaluative conclusion that results from inferences triggered by the use of a term, which can be represented and assessed using argumentation schemes. The evaluative inferences are regarded as part of the connotation of emotive words, which can be modified and stabilized by means of recontextualizations. The manipulative risks underlying the misuse and the redefinition of emotive words are accounted for in terms of presuppositions and implicit modifications of the interlocutors’ commitments.   

Argumentation Schemes

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Walton ◽  
Christopher Reed ◽  
Fabrizio Macagno
Keyword(s):  
Argumentation Schemes

scholarly journals A formalization of argumentation schemes for legal case-based reasoning in ASPIC+

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 1141-1166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Prakken ◽  
Adam Wyner ◽  
Trevor Bench-Capon ◽  
Katie Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Case Based Reasoning ◽  
Argumentation Schemes ◽  
Legal Case ◽  
Case Based

scholarly journals Story Similarity in Arguments from Analogy

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Walton
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Model ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Argumentation Schemes ◽  
Argumentation Scheme ◽  
Abstract Representations ◽  
Argument From Analogy ◽  
Model Similarity

In this paper a hybrid model of argument from analogy is presented that combines argumentation schemes and story schemes. One premise of the argumentation scheme for argument from analogy in the model claims that one case is similar to another. Story schemes are abstract representations of stories (narratives, explanations) based on common knowledge about how sequences of actions and events we are familiar with can normally be expected to unfold. Story schemes are used (a) to model similarity between two cases, and (2) as the basis of evidence to support the similarity premise of an argument from analogy. Four examples of argument from analogy are used to test the theory.

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