Miss South Carolina: a pragma-dialectical analysis
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.21.08Keywords:
argumentation, argumentative discourse, pragma-dialectics, School of Amsterdam, strategic maneuvering, Miss South CarolinaAbstract
This text presents an argumentative analysis of a very well-known interaction
–a so-called “YouTube phenomenon”– that a candidate of a Beauty
Contest gave when she was asked about the reason why a fifth of American
people is not able to locate the U.S. in a World map. This analysis uses the
Pragma-dialectical approach to argumentative discourse in its dialectical and
rethorical dimensions, and shows what powerful it is in order to decipher
and evaluate the argumentative structure of a muddled discourse.
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