The Routledge Handbook of Language and Persuasion by Jeanne F... - 9780367423353

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The Routledge Handbook of Language and PersuasionAuthor(s): Jeanne Fahnestock, Randy Allen Harris\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367423353, 978-0367423353\nSynopsis\nThis handbook provides a wide-ranging, authoritative, and cutting-edge overview of language and persuasion. Featuring a range of international contributors, the handbook outlines the basic materials of linguistic persuasion sound, words, syntax, and discourse and the rhetorical basics that they enable, such as appeals, argument schemes, arrangement strategies, and accommodation devices.\n\nAfter a comprehensive introduction that brings together the elements of linguistics and the vectors of rhetoric, the handbook is divided into six parts. Part I covers the basic rhetorical appeals to character, the emotions, argument schemes, and types of issues that constitute persuasion. Part II covers the enduring effects of persuasive language, from humor to.