Media Argumentation: Dialectic, Persuasion and Rhetoric (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521700306)

Media argumentation is a powerful force in our lives. From political speeches to television commercials to war propaganda, it can effectively mobilize political action, influence the public, and market products. This book presents a new and systematic way of thinking about the influence of mass media in our lives, showing the intersection of media sources with argumentation theory, informal logic, computational theory, and theories of persuasion. Using a variety of case studies that represent arguments that typically occur in the mass media, Douglas Walton demonstrates how tools recently developed in argumentation theory can be usefully applied to the identification, analysis, and evaluation of media arguments.

Author: Douglas Walton
ISBN-10: 0521700302
ISBN-13: 9780521700306
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2007
Pages: 404
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.85w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 7