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Publication details [#46193]

Fontanille, Jacques. 2007. Ethos, pathos, et persuasion : le corps dans l'argumentation. Le cas du témoignage. Semiotica 2007 (163) : 85–109.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

French

Keywords

argumentation | bodily posture | law | persuasion

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

Drawing on Jacques Fontanille's semiotic theory of the body (Séma et soma. Les figures du corps), this paper explores the different dimensions of the body's persuasive efficiency, in particular in the case of an examination of a witness.