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“I want you to defend that!” The Argumentative Structure of U.S.A. Presidential Debates
In: Doctoral Dissertations (2022)
Abstract: In this dissertation, I analyze U.S.A. presidential debates as a communicative arena where candidates attempt to persuade the electorate to vote for them. The study is based on discourse analysis grounded in pragma-dialectics and conversational epistemics and deontics to I elucidate how talk on U.S.A. presidential debates is structured. I show that candidates advance a pragmatic argumentative structure tied to the act of making a campaign promise and based on four distinct epistemic resources. Drawing on the first debates from 2000, 2008 and 2016, I show how candidates shape their speech to manage the disagreement space between themselves and the audience. Candidates discursively construct the relevant facts and delineate territories of knowledge by invoking epistemic resources and through the careful use of the epistemic modality. They manage their political commitments through the use of the deontic modality and commitment markers. Using these two aspects, candidates show that there is a problem and that they are the only person going to implement a desired policy. This results in a complex argumentative structure based on three distinct premises and six critical questions which defines the discourse in this arena of communication. First, there is a necessity premise, used to stress that some course of action has to be followed, which is checked through two critical questions: a) does the course of action solve a problem? and b) does the course of action have positive effects? Second, there is a commitment premise, used to stress that the speaker will enact the proposed course of action. Two critical questions are used to check the reasonableness of this premise: c) does the candidate intend to enact this course of action? and d) is the candidate able to enact this course of action? Last, there is a comparison premise, used to stress that the opponent will not enact the desired course of action. The critical questions which are tied to this premise are: e) is the candidate the only one to propose the desired policy? and f) is the opponent not able to execute this policy?
Keyword: argumentation; deontics; epistemics; Interpersonal and Small Group Communication; political communication; pragmatics; Social Influence and Political Communication; Speech and Rhetorical Studies; U.S.A. presidential debates
URL: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/2453
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3530&context=dissertations_2
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Predicting First Dates from Language Style Matching in Online Dating Messages ...
Huang, Sabrina. - : Open Science Framework, 2021
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The Impact of Code Switching on Understanding Other’s Minds ...
Johnson, Darin. - : Open Science Framework, 2021
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Peer interaction among intensive immersive language course participants: Comparing the impact of face-to-face vs online delivery ...
Paradowski, Michał. - : Open Science Framework, 2021
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Tracking Nonliteral Language Processing Using Audiovisual Scenarios
In: Communication Disorders Faculty Publications (2021)
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Revealing Challenges of Teaching Secrecy
In: Secrecy and Society (2021)
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The DISC® Personal Profiles of Emerging Sign Language Interpreters
In: Journal of Interpretation (2021)
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Relational Dialectics in College LDRs: Managing the Tensions of Long-Distance Dating in College
In: Honors Theses, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2021)
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Transition Shock: Do Words Impact My Work?
In: Master's of Arts in Interpreting Studies (MAIS) Action Research (2021)
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Speech Discrimination in Real-World Group Communication Using Audio-Motion Multimodal Sensing
In: Sensors ; Volume 20 ; Issue 10 (2020)
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Developing an aeronautical English training unit based on the ADDIE model in an EFL context
In: English Publications (2020)
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Social Distancing: The New Professional Civility
In: Graduate Research (2020)
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When to Make the Sensory Social: Registering in Face-to-Face Openings
In: Faculty Publications (2020)
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Greying Mutuality: Race and Joking Relations in a South African Nursing Home
In: Faculty Publications (2020)
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Importance and Challenges of International Service-Learning
In: Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement (2020)
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Defying the Odds: Exploring the Ways First-Generation College Students Enact Resilience
In: Theses and Dissertations--Communication (2020)
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ETHNIC-RACIAL SOCIALIZATION MAPPING IN ETHNIC-RACIAL MINORITY POPULATIONS: EXPLORING THE EFFICACY OF AN INTERVENTION TO INCREASE WELL-BEING AND SECURE ETHNIC-RACIAL IDENTITY
In: Communication Studies Theses, Dissertations, and Student Research (2020)
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NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES IN A KOREAN AMERICAN-OWNED BEAUTY SUPPLY STORE
In: Doctoral Dissertations (2020)
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Tell Me What You Need: An Examination of Dialectical Tensions Within Romantic Relationships with Depressed Partners
In: Masters Theses & Specialist Projects (2020)
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Gesture in multiparty interaction
Shaw, Emily. - Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, 2019
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