Provides a unique analysis of the uses and the dangerous effects of quotations in political discourse and legal cases

Offers a method and a procedure for evaluating quotes and misquotes

Analyzes quotation from a dialectic and a rhetoric perspective

Investigates the tacit dimension of communication in terms of argument

Inhalt

Introduction.- Using Quotations: Their Argumentative uses and Their Manipulations.- Communicative Intentions and Commitments.- Establishing Commitments between Ambiguity and Misquotation.- The Strategies of Misattribution of Commitments.- Evaluating Relevance and Commitments in Rhetorical Straw Man.- Commitment and Position.- A Procedure for Assessing Complex cases of Straw Man.- Conclusions.- Indices.- Cases.