Pascale Mansier
List of John Benjamins publications for which Pascale Mansier plays a role.
Article
The psychiatrization of the opponent in polemical context Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 217–232 | Article
2015 A variant of the ad hominem argument amounts to challenging the opponent’s mental health. Semi-technical designations borrowed from psychiatric paradigms (such as autistic, paranoiac, hysterical) are thus appealed to in order to qualify the opponent. Based on three examples from polemical… read more