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Our own worst enemy as protector of ourselves : stereotypes, schemas, and typifications as integral elements in the persuasive process /

Much communication today argues a point. An argument, by definition, involves an attack and a counterattack not only using logic, but also incorporating non-logical feelings, attitudes, beliefs, and values. Much of the non-logical element in our argumenttaps the reservoir of unconscious understandin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Renz, Byron B. (Byron Ben), 1935-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the function of persuasion in propaganda
  • Media, fear, and the consolidation of state power
  • The enthymeme as a persuasive device in terrorists' media messages
  • Social construction of media-generated terrorist images
  • Media imagery : generator of oppositional schemas that fuel world conflict
  • From the seed to the tree and back again : definition of linguistic purpose
  • propaganda : from theory to practice.