Publications

Publication details [#53092]

Walton, Douglas and Fabrizio Macagno. 2010. What we hide in words: Emotive words and persuasive definitions. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (7) : 1997–2013.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argumentation | emotion | persuasion | pragmatic interpretation | presupposition

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article contributes to research on the argumentative use of emotive words, studied in recent literature on persuasive definitions, using a pragmatic perspective and the concept of presupposition.