The Pragmatics of Cogent Argumentation in British and American Political Debates

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Since the time of Aristotle, various approaches have been offered to tackle what makes language stronger. Some approaches have focused on rhetoric, while others have given attention to logic. Still others have concentrated on dialectics. This book takes into account a full-fledged comprehensive model of analysis that brings these three perspectives together. Throughout, it investigates the presence of pragmatic criteria and the utilization of pragmatic strategies that make language stronger in the context of argumentation. Cogent argumentation is a pragmatic communicative interactional process that goes through stages, and is regarded as a communicative exchange of arguments. The cogency of these arguments is attained according to the availability of pragmatic criteria and the utilization of pragmatic strategies, and determined throughout the whole process of argumentation. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in the fields of pragmatics, communication, and politics, and will widen their understanding of the pragmatic structure and criteria which constitute cogent argumentation.


About the Author


Waleed Ridha Hammoodi Al-Juwaid holds a BA and MA in English Language and Linguistics/Pragmatics from the College of Education in the Department of English of the University of Babylon, Iraq. He also received a PhD from the same institution in 2018, and currently works as an English teacher in a preparatory school in Hillah, Iraq. He is interested in English language and linguistics, pragmatics, Phonetics, stylistics, rhetoric, and contrastive studies, among other disciplines. He is a member of the Association of Translators in Baghdad, Iraq, and has authored and co-authored four books, one of which is A Pragmatic Study of Strategic Manoeuvring in Political Interviews.