{"title":"Aggression and disagreement in public communication","authors":"Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri","doi":"10.1075/jlac.00096.lom","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00096.lom","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The persuasive effectiveness of implicit strategies, associated\u0000 with reduced epistemic vigilance, may lead to their exploitation in conveying\u0000 doubtful information in advertisement and propaganda. In political\u0000 communication, presuppositions tend to specialize for the conveyance of\u0000 questionable opinions and self-praise, while implicatures reveal a preferential\u0000 association with face-threatening contents in general, where implicitness can\u0000 allow speakers to count less evidently as offenders, at the same time being able\u0000 to convey contents that can discredit the opponent.\u0000 In public debates, speakers do not necessarily aim at convincing\u0000 the opponent, but at shaping the beliefs of the public at home. In Italian\u0000 broadcast political debates, implicatures and presuppositions are used exactly\u0000 with this function. Confirming this pattern, participants in public debates\u0000 often “intercept” the opponent’s implicatures and make them explicit in order to\u0000 reduce the persuasiveness effected by their being implicit. Sometimes this also\u0000 offers the opportunity to provide explicitations that are different from the\u0000 original implicature, caricaturizing the position of the opponent with a\u0000 strawman effect.","PeriodicalId":499828,"journal":{"name":"Journal of language aggression and conflict","volume":" 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141372011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The evidential dimension of implicitly conveyed disagreement in\u0000 political debates","authors":"Viviana Masia","doi":"10.1075/jlac.00097.mas","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00097.mas","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The idea that manipulation relies more heavily on implicit than\u0000 on explicit communication has been the plank of several earlier and recent\u0000 debates on argumentation and speaker roles in interactions. The present\u0000 contribution will inquire into the selective nature of the use\u0000 of implicit communication in political discourse; notably, analyzing the\u0000 distribution of presuppositions and implicatures in two political debates, it\u0000 will be argued that the use of these two implicit communicative devices – and,\u0000 particularly, that of presupposition – is likely to correlate\u0000 with the expression of disagreement, notably through aggressive and blasting\u0000 contents, more often than with other content types. This tendency will be\u0000 accounted for by considering the evidential meaning presuppositions and\u0000 implicatures add to an utterance, which contributes to modulating both speaker’s\u0000 commitment to truth and source identification on the part of the receiver. Data\u0000 also show that, when face-threatening contents are exchanged, presuppositions\u0000 epitomize by far the most preferred strategy in both debates.","PeriodicalId":499828,"journal":{"name":"Journal of language aggression and conflict","volume":" 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141371039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}