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Publication details [#42551]

Rudanko, Juhani. 2005. The fallacy of ad socordiam and two types of speaker intentions: a case study from the First Congressional Debate on the Bill of Rights in 1789. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (5) : 723–736.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience | fallacious argumentation | persuasion | political speech | speaker meaning

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper investigates the First Congressional Debate on the Bill of Rights in 1789, arguing that one proposal involves the fallacy of ad socordiam, salient in the in the study of persuasion and political rhetoric.