Strategies for strengthening presumptions and generating ethos by manifestly ensuring accountability
Location
University of Windsor
Document Type
Paper
Keywords
assurance accounts, Barbara Jordan, ethos, Paul Grice, probative obligations, seriously say-ing and meaning something, special presumptions.
Start Date
18-5-2011 9:00 AM
End Date
21-5-2011 5:00 PM
Abstract
In argumentation, as elsewhere, speakers strategically engage favourable presumptions by manifestly making themselves accountable for their communicative efforts. Such strategies provide the addressee with reasons to regard the speaker as accountable in specific ways and, via that regard for the speaker, with situation-specific rationales for responding positively to what the speaker says. This paper identifies some resources available to arguers for strengthening, elaborating, and focusing such special presumptions. The paper offers an analysis of Barbara Jordan’s “Statement on the Articles of Impeachment” as illustrative of these resources for strengthening a speaker’s ethos.
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Strategies for strengthening presumptions and generating ethos by manifestly ensuring accountability
University of Windsor
In argumentation, as elsewhere, speakers strategically engage favourable presumptions by manifestly making themselves accountable for their communicative efforts. Such strategies provide the addressee with reasons to regard the speaker as accountable in specific ways and, via that regard for the speaker, with situation-specific rationales for responding positively to what the speaker says. This paper identifies some resources available to arguers for strengthening, elaborating, and focusing such special presumptions. The paper offers an analysis of Barbara Jordan’s “Statement on the Articles of Impeachment” as illustrative of these resources for strengthening a speaker’s ethos.
