Cognitive rhetoric : the cognitive poetics of political discourse

Cognitive rhetoric : the cognitive poetics of political discourse /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Browse, Sam (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Series:Linguistic approaches to literature ; v. 31.
Subjects:
Discourse analysis > Political aspects.
Rhetoric > Political aspects.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Cognitive Rhetoric
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Editorial page
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of figures
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Political discourse
  • 1.3 Political/Critical Discourse Analysis
  • 1.4 Classical rhetoric
  • 1.5 Stylistics
  • 1.6 Cognitive stylistics
  • 1.7 Summary of aims and methods
  • 1.8 The structure of this book
  • 2. Layers of ethos
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Ethos, ethics and narrative theory
  • 2.3 Three layers of ethos
  • 2.4 The implied author in political discourse
  • 2.5 The narrator
  • The orchestrator
  • 2.6 The speaker/s
  • 2.7 Summary
  • 3. The conceptual ecology of ethos
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 The cognitive dynamics of impression formation
  • 3.3 From dialect to style
  • 3.4 From style to cognition
  • 3.5 Performance models
  • 3.6 Character schemata
  • 3.7 Reading political minds
  • 3.8 Summary
  • 4. Logos as representation
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Common ground and the enthymeme
  • 4.3 (Mind) modelling and the Idealised Common Ground
  • 4.4 A (Cognitive) Grammar of Resistance
  • 4.5 Re-specifying and resistant reading
  • 4.6 Re-scoping and resistant reading
  • 4.7 Re-profiling, re-scanning and resistant reading
  • 4.8 Irony as resistance
  • 4.9 Summary
  • 5. Logos as conceptual mapping
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Mapping and example
  • 5.3 Metaphor and/as example
  • 5.4 Resisting example
  • 5.5 Satire as example
  • 5.6 Politics in The Thick of It
  • 5.7 The Thick of It in politics
  • 5.8 Summary
  • 6. Rhetorical ambience
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Affect and emotion
  • 6.3 Emotion in Political Discourse Analysis
  • 6.4 Ambience
  • 6.5 Tone
  • 6.6 Atmosphere
  • 6.7 Rhetorical ambience
  • 6.8 Ambience and affect in immigration rhetoric
  • 6.9 Summary
  • 7. Political resonance
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Political resonance
  • 7.3 An attentional model.
  • 7.4 A resonant speech
  • 7.5 Shared myths and the lacunae in the past
  • 7.6 Ann Nixon Cooper and the resonant feedback crescendo
  • 7.7 The future is now
  • 7.8 Summary
  • Subject index.

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