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Fallacies and free speech : selected discourses in early America / Juhani Rudanko.

9783030678777 (electronic bk.)
3030678776 (electronic bk.)
9783030678760
3030678768

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

English

1 online resource (1 volume)

10.1007/978-3-030-67877-7 doi

P302

323.4430973
401.45

This book offers a new perspective on selected discourses and texts bearing on the evolution of a distinctively American tradition of free speech. The authors 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 Madisons 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 Madisons 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. Juhani Rudanko is Professor Emeritus at Tampere University, Finland. He was Associate Professor of English at that university from 1979 to 2001 and then Professor from 2001 to 2016. His publications include books and articles on the system of English predicate complementation, including its evolution, and on early American political history.

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