Person Deixis as Discursive Practice in Nigeria’s “June 12” Conflict Rhetoric

Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Argument

Many lawyers lack a basic understanding of the structure and process of legal argumentation. Their limited understanding, which often leads to less than effective advocacy, stems from legal education's failure to make the structure and process of legal argument explicit and systematic. One approach to this problem is to explore the intrinsic relationship of law to rhetoric. Because law and rhet...

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Rhetoric As Knowledge

A proper assessment of the relation between discourse structure and speaker's communicat ive intentions requires a better understanding of communicative intentions. This contribution proposes that there is a crucial difference between intending the hearer to entertain a certain belief (or desire, or intention), and intending to affect the strength with which the hearer entertains the belief (or...

Matt Donner 12 June 2011

This paper is an inquiry into the largely unexamined analysis of arguments by analogy (ABA). By exposing the degree of philosophical complexity, which ultimately renders evaluation of ABA subjective, we shall see that the most appropriate doxastic attitude to adopt, with respect to the conclusions drawn from these arguments, is often suspension of judgment. A critical examination of Copi’s crit...

Temporal deixis in narratives1

This paper is about some peculiarities of temporal deixis (indicated in French by temporal adverbs like maintenant, aujourd’hui, hier, demain, etc.) in narratives, that is, either in sentences which clearly are narrative, because of the presence of the passé simple tense in French, or in sentences which express the subjectivity of a third person point of view through represented speech or thoug...