Persuasion Across Genres: A Linguistic Approach

268 Pages·2005·1.37 MB·English

by  Helena Halmari (ed.)

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PersuasionAcrossGenres
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
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Volume130
PersuasionAcrossGenres:Alinguisticapproach
EditedbyHelenaHalmariandTuijaVirtanen
Persuasion Across Genres
A linguistic approach
Editedby
Helena Halmari
SamHoustonStateUniversity
Tuija Virtanen
ÅboAkademiUniversity
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Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindexes.
1.Discourseanalysis--Psychologicalaspects.2.Persuasion
(Psychology).3.Literaryform.4.Intertextuality.I.Halmari,Helena.II.
Virtanen,Tuija.III.Series.
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements vii
1.Introduction
Chapter1
Persuasionacrossgenres:Emergingperspectives 3
TuijaVirtanenandHelenaHalmari
2.Focusingonprivateandsemipublicdiscourse
Chapter2
Persuasioninbusinessnegotiations 27
AnneMarieBülow-Møller
Chapter3
Persuasioninjudicialargumentation:TheOpinions
oftheAdvocatesGeneralattheEuropeanCourtofJustice 59
TarjaSalmi-Tolonen
3.Focusingonpublicdiscourse
Chapter4
Insearchof“successful”politicalpersuasion:Acomparison
ofthestylesofBillClintonandRonaldReagan 105
HelenaHalmari
 Tableofcontents
Chapter5
Inanutshell:Persuasioninthespatiallyconstrained
languageofadvertising 135
PaulBruthiaux
Chapter6
“Pollsandsurveysshow”:Publicopinionasapersuasivedevice
ineditorialdiscourse 153
TuijaVirtanen
4.Theoreticalconsiderations
Chapter7
Persuasionasimplicitanchoring:Thecaseofcollocations 183
Jan-OlaÖstman
Chapter8
Genericpatternsinpromotionaldiscourse 213
VijayK.Bhatia
5.Concludingremarks
Chapter9
Towardsunderstandingmodernpersuasion 229
HelenaHalmariandTuijaVirtanen
Authorindex 245
Subjectindex 249
Acknowledgements
Thepointofdepartureforthepresentvolumewasawell-receivedthree-hour
colloquium at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) an-
nualmeetinginApril1999,whichbroughttogethersixveryinterestingpapers
andthus encouragedusto goonwith the project toexpanditintoanedited
volume.Severalof the participants tothe AAAL conferencehavecontributed
with revised and expanded versionsof their papers. Other contributorswere
invitedtojoininonthebasisoftheirresearchinterests,tocomplementareas
that weredeemedcentraltothe book.Ourfirstandforemostthanksthus go
toourcontributors,whomadetheprojectmeaningfulandpossible,andwho
haveshowngreatefficiencyandenthusiasminwritingandrevisingtheirchap-
ters.WearealsogratefultoallthosewhocametoourAAALcolloquiumand
letusbenefitfromtheirwisdombyaskingdisturbingquestionsandsuggesting
constructivetwiststhatthestudyofpersuasioncouldtake.
IthasbeenapleasuretoworkwithJohnBenjaminsPublishingCompany.
WewanttothankAndreasJucker,theserieseditorforthePragmatics&Beyond
New Series, and Isja Conen for their help during the process. We also thank
the two anonymous reviewersfor their insightful suggestions. And we thank
RobertAdamsforreadinganumberofchaptersandcommentingonboththeir
languageandcontent.Wenaturallytakeresponsibilityfortheremainingfaults
andimperfections.
We wish to thank Sam Houston State University, Texas, and Växjö Uni-
versity,Sweden,forfundingourparticipationintheAAALconference.Weare
alsogratefultoVäxjöUniversityforfinancingtravelforTuijaVirtanen,which
allowedustofinalizethepresentvolume,andtoSamHoustonStateUniversity
forfinancialsupportfromtheResearchEnhancementFundsandforthereas-
signedtimeforresearchgiventoHelenaHalmari.Wealsowanttoacknowledge
Universityof Florida and Åbo Akademi University, Finland, for institutional
supportduringthefinalpartsoftheproject.
WeacknowledgeElsevierScienceforthepermissiontoreprintChapter5,
“Inanutshell:Persuasioninthespatiallyconstrainedlanguageofadvertising”
 Acknowledgements
byPaulBruthiaux. The chapter isreprintedfromLanguage andCommunica-
tion,Vol.20(4),2000,pp.297–310.
Finally, warm thanks go to those close to our hearts for giving us the
support we needed to work happily and productively, in alphabetical order:
Fredrik, Iiris, Irene, Jaakko, and Rob – as well as the cats Maisa, Pieni, and
Sannaforoccasionallyswingingtheirtailsinfrontofthecomputerscreenand
performing persuasive strategies of their own. Tuija wishes to extend special
thanks to Helena’s family for providing her with a Finnish-American nest in
whichthehatchingofthisvolumewassomuchnicer.
December2003
Huntsville,Texas&Åbo,Finland
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