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Construal operations in online press reports of political protests
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Trust based on bias:cognitive constraints on source-related fallacies
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Discourse, grammar and ideology:functional and cognitive perspectives
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Argumentative euphemisms, political correctness and relevance
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Constructing contexts through grammar:Cognitive models and conceptualisation in British Newspaper reports of political protests
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Event-construal in press reports of violence in political protests:a cognitive linguistic approach to CDA
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Argumentation meets adapted cognition:manipulation in media discourse on immigration
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Critical discourse analysis has focussed extensively on argumentation in anti-immigration discourse where a specific suite of argumentation strategies has been identified as constitutive of the discourse. The successful perlocutionary effects of these arguments are analysed as products of pragmatic processes based on ‘common-sense' reasoning schemes known as topoi. In this paper, I offer an alternative explanation grounded in cognitive-evolutionary psychology. Specifically, it is shown that a number of argumentation schemes identified as recurrent in anti-immigration discourse relate to two cognitive mechanisms proposed in evolutionary psychology: the cheater detection and avoidance mechanism (Cosmides 1989) and epistemic vigilance (Sperber et al. 2010). It is further suggested that the potential perlocutionary effects of argument acts in anti-immigration discourse, in achieving sanction for discriminatory practices, may arise not as the product of intentional-inferential processes but as a function of cognitive heuristics and biases provided by these mechanisms. The impact of such arguments may therefore be best characterised in terms of manipulation rather than persuasion.
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URL: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/65842/1/Argumentation_meets_adapted_cognition.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2013.06.005 https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/65842/
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Trust based on bias: Cognitive constraints on source-related fallacies
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In: OSSA Conference Archive (2013)
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Argumentation meets adapted cognition: manipulation in media discourse on immigration
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Event-construal in press reports of violence in political protests: a cognitive linguistic approach to CDA
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Force-interactive patterns in immigration discourse: A Cognitive Linguistic approach to CDA
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