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This handbook provides a wide-ranging, authoritative and cutting-edge overview of language and persuasion. Featuring a range of international contributors, the handbook outlines the basic materials of linguistic persuasion.

The Dialectical Questions (Erotemata Dialectices) of Philip Melanchthon offers an English translation of one of the sixteenth-century's most influential textbooks on argumentation. The introduction sets the work in Melanchthon's life and times, reviews its content, and details its unique sample arguments drawn from medicine and natural philosophy.

The stasis approach pioneered by Fahnestock and Secor distinguishes among four basic questions that arguments are written to answer:What is it? (Definition arguments)How did it get that way? (Causal arguments)Is it good or bad? (Evaluation arguments)What should we do about it? (Proposal arguments) These four questions, now standard in many argument texts, give students a constructive, engaging way to analyze arguments by other writers and to c...

A comprehensive guide to the language of argument, Rhetorical Style offers a renewed appreciation of the persuasive power of the English language. Drawing on key texts from the rhetorical tradition, as well as on newer approaches from linguistics and literary stylistics, Fahnestock demonstrates how word choice, sentence form, and passage construction can combine to create effective spoken and written arguments. With examples from political spe...

A comprehensive guide to the language of argument, Rhetorical Style offers a renewed appreciation of the persuasive power of the English language. Drawing on key texts from the rhetorical tradition, as well as on newer approaches from linguistics and literary stylistics, Fahnestock demonstrates how word choice, sentence form, and passage construction can combine to create effective spoken and written arguments. With examples from political spe...