Strategies of Character Attack.
Why are personal attacks so powerful? In political debates, speeches, discussions and campaigns, negative character judgments, aggressive charges and charged epithets are used for different purposes. They can block the dialogue, trigger value judgments and influence decisions; they can force the int...
| Published in: | Argumentation Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 369 - 402 |
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Springer Nature
Nov2013
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