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Fallacies and Free Speech - Selected Discourses in Early America (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Fallacies and Free Speech - Selected Discourses in Early America (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book offers a new perspective on selected discourses and texts
bearing on the evolution of a distinctively American tradition of
free speech. The author's approach privileges fallacy theory,
especially the fallacy of ad socordiam, in a key Congressional
debate in 1789 and other forms of verbal manipulation in newspaper
editorials during the War of 1812. He argues that in order to
understand James Madison's role in the evolution of a broad
conception of freedom of speech, it is imperative to examine the
nature of the verbal attacks targeted at him. These attacks are
documented, analyzed with the concept of aggravated impoliteness,
and used to demonstrate that it was Madison's toleration of
criticism, even in wartime, that provided a foundation for a broad
conception of freedom of speech. This book will be of interest to
both scholars and lay readers with an interest in the application
of discourse analysis and historical pragmatics to political
debates, argumentation theory and fallacy theory, and the evolution
of the concept of freedom of speech in the early years of the
United States.
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