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In Defense of Polemics

Part of the Argumentation Library Book Series (volume 42)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-85210-8

ISBN: 978-3-030-85209-2

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Sep 30, 2021

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Chapter 1Introduction: Why Polemics?

Amossy, Ruth

Pages: 1 –6

[Being in the habit of consulting regularly the French mediaMedia, I was quite impressed, a few years ago, by the frequency of the “polemicsPolemics” or public controversiesPublic controversy (in French, “polémiques”) (The use of “polemicsPolemics” and “public controversyPublic controversy” in...
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Managing Disagreement in Democracies: Towards a Rhetoric of Dissensus

Amossy, Ruth

Pages: 9 –26

[To the extent that it appears like an often brutal clash of antagonistic opinions, polemicsPolemics is indissolubly linked to disagreementDisagreement.]
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Public Controversy and Polemics: Some Attempts at Definitions

Amossy, Ruth

Pages: 27 –46

[InPolemicspublicPublic controversy life as in daily life, verbal confrontationsConfrontation are numerous and names for designating them diverse. We speak about them in terms of debateDebate, discussion, disputeDispute, quarrelQuarrel, controversy, or polemicsPolemics to cite but the most common...
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Wearing the Burqa in France Polemical Discourse and Polemical Exchanges

Amossy, Ruth

Pages: 49 –71

[InPolemical discoursethePolemical exchange previous chapter, we have elaborated a working definition of polemicsPolemicsand public controversyPublic controversy as a specific discursive phenomenon.]
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Controversies and Polemics in Public Space “The Exclusion of Women” in Israel

Amossy, Ruth

Pages: 73 –95

[ItPolemics is in the circulation of discoursesCirculation of discoursesthat public controversyPublic controversy is constructed as a set of verbal confrontationsConfrontation on a social problem. Mono-managed discoursesDiscourse-mono-managed discourse as well as verbal duels are drawn into the...
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Rationality and/or Passion Thomas Friedman and the Mexican Wall

Amossy, Ruth

Pages: 99 –121

[Does public controversyPublic controversy in its polemical dimension lie under the banner of passionPassion? That is what public opinion would lead us to think.]
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Verbal Violence: Its Functions and Limits

Amossy, Ruth

Pages: 123 –144

[AFlames (flaming)discoursePublic controversyof passionPassion, polemicsPolemics is also accused of being a discourse of violence.]
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Conclusion Coexistence in Dissensus

Amossy, Ruth

Pages: 145 –159

[The functions of public controversiesPublic controversy.]

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