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The Possibility and Actuality of Visual Arguments
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In this paper, the authors investigate whether there can be visual arguments and what a visual argument would look like if we encountered one, and if they are possible in a non-metaphorical way, are there any visual arguments?Abstract:
The chapter investigates the extension of argument into the realm of visual expression. Although images can be influential in affecting attitudes and beliefs it does not follow that such images are arguments. So we should at the outset investigate whether there can be visual arguments. To do so, we need to know what a visual argument would look like if we encountered one. How, if at all, are visual and verbal arguments related? An account of a concept of visual argument serves to establish the possibility that they exist. If they are possible in a non-metaphorical way, are there any visual arguments? Examples show that they do exist: in paintings and sculpture, in print advertisements, in TV commercials and in political cartoons. But visual arguments are not distinct in essence from verbal arguments. The argument is always a propositional entity, merely expressed differently in the two cases. And the effectiveness in much visual persuasion is not due to any arguments conveyed.read more
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Teaching and Learning Argumentative Reading and Writing: A Review of Research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the contributions of two research perspectives, cognitive and social, that researchers have employed in the study of the teaching and learning of argumentative reading and writing in K-12 and college writing classrooms.
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The Advantages of Compliance or the Disadvantages of Noncompliance? A Meta-Analytic Review of the Relative Persuasive Effectiveness of Gain-Framed and Loss-Framed Messages
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The Visual Image and the Political Image: A Review of Visual Communication Research in the Field of Political Communication
TL;DR: The authors argue that visual symbols play a central role in constructing political images and argue that it is time for political communication scholars to delve deeper into how visual symbols function in public affairs, and provide a theoretical and literature base to facilitate this change in focus and to suggest future avenues of research in this area.
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From Analysis to Design: Visual Communication in the Teaching of Writing
TL;DR: The authors argue that the terms of debate typical in discussions of visual literacy and the teaching of writing have limited the kinds of assignments we might imagine for composition, and bring composition studies into a more thoroughgoing discussion of the place of visual reading in the writing classroom.
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The Rhetoric of Visual Arguments
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the relationships among rhetoric, argument and persuasion, and explore the difficulties and opportunities that present themselves when considering visual argument in particular, and take up the question: What does being visual add to arguments?
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Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff,Mark Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: Lakoff and Johnson as mentioned in this paper suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning, and they offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind.
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Metaphors We Live by
TL;DR: Lakoff and Johnson as mentioned in this paper suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning, and they offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind.
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L'argumentation dans la langue
TL;DR: In this article, the AA. developpent la theorie des echelles argumentatives, presentee dans O. Decrot, La Preuve et le Dire, Paris, 1973, and introduisent une description semantique a trois composants conduisant a reviser la notion d'illocutoire.