Publications

Publication details [#53031]

Komlosi, Laslo I. and István Tarrósy. 2010. Presumptive arguments turned into a fallacy of presumptuousness: Pre-election debates in a democracy of promises. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (4) : 957–972.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argumentation | election manifesto | fallacious argumentation | political speech | rationalism

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This evaluative study of politicians’ (fallacious) argumentative practices in Hungarian pre-election discourse, takes into consideration both the critical-rationalist and the pragma-dialectical approaches towards reasoned discussion.