Persuasion Across Genres: A linguistic approach
Edited by Helena Halmari and Tuija Virtanen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 130] 2005. viii, 257 pp.
Helena Halmari
List of John Benjamins publications for which Helena Halmari plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Government and Codeswitching: Explaining American Finnish
Helena Halmari
[Studies in Bilingualism, 12] 1997. xvi, 276 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Multilingualism | Syntax
Articles
2024 Chapter 6. Apology as hypocrisy: Examples from Bill Clinton and Donald Trump The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy, Sorlin, Sandrine and Tuija Virtanen (eds.), pp. 124–160 | Chapter
Apologies have been a rewarding target for research in the pragmatics tradition; however, few studies connect apologies to hypocrisy. This chapter is an attempt to do so. I approach the pragmalinguistic aspects of hypocrisy by examining two notorious apologies: Clinton’s 1998 apology for his… read more
2008 On the language of the Clinton-Dole presidential campaign debates: General tendencies and successful strategies Journal of Language and Politics 7:2, pp. 247–270 | Article
This article investigates the rhetorical strategies deployed by President Clinton and Senator Dole during the 1996 presidential debates. Clinton resorted to implicit persuasion and audience-oriented rhetorical strategies, while Doles persuasion was more explicit, and he did not avoid the use of… read more
2005 In search of "successful" political persuasion: A comparison of the sytles of Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan Persuasion Across Genres: A linguistic approach, Halmari, Helena and Tuija Virtanen (eds.), pp. 105–134 | Chapter
2005 Towards understanding modern persuasion Persuasion Across Genres: A linguistic approach, Halmari, Helena and Tuija Virtanen (eds.), pp. 229–244 | Chapter
2005 Persuasion across genres: Emerging perspectives Persuasion Across Genres: A linguistic approach, Halmari, Helena and Tuija Virtanen (eds.), pp. 3–24 | Chapter
1996 On Accessibility and Coherence Reference and Referent Accessibility, Fretheim, Thorstein and Jeanette K. Gundel (eds.), pp. 155 ff. | Article