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By Hilde Van Belle, Kris Rutten, Paul Gillaerts, Dorien Van De Mieroop, Baldwin Van Gorp

During this quantity on political argumentation, the research of argument happens inside of a rhetorical framework. As such, it's a contribution to the examine of argumentation-in-context with an particular rhetorical technique. instead of concentrating on the negative caliber of political participation and political figuring out via voters, this quantity explores how the examine of rhetoric, either as a tutorial self-discipline and as a political perform, stands in a distinct place to severely have interaction with a ‘contextualized’ knowing of politics and civic engagement. Many contributions during this quantity confront classical rhetorical suggestions and theories with present political advancements reminiscent of globalization and multiculturalism and the emergence of recent democracies. Others concentration explicitly on deliberative rhetoric within the political realm, or adopt a severe research of political texts and public occasions as a way to discover what this may indicate for the improvement of a ‘critical’ citizenship.

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Orators on either side of a debate use persuasive speech to influence their audience’s decision. … Unlike Habermas, he rejects the claim that truly universalizable norms can be apprehended intersubjectively through rational discourse.  (p. ) Going a step further, the political theorist Bernard Yack argues that the obligation of public deliberative rhetors to integrate appeals to advantage and self-interest with communal considerations is ennobling rather than demeaning. For one thing, “it rules out explicitly self serving arguments” (2006, p.

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