Persuasive strategies in competitive debates: A corpus rhetoric approach
Persuasive strategies in competitive debates: A corpus rhetoric approach

Summary/Abstract: This paper uses a corpus rhetoric approach to analyze persuasive strategies in competitive debates. The examined strategies are basedon inference markers and selected types of systemic means of persuasion. The study is two-fold: the first part is the quantitativeand qualitative analyses that characterize competitive debates compared to other persuasive discourses. The second part, the casestudy, shows the use of particular persuasive strategies related to inference markers and systemic means of persuasion in a specificrhetorical situation. As the quantitative analysis revealed, regardless of the debaters’ experience level, competitive debates are highlysaturated with analyzed persuasive strategies. The case study depicts the dynamics of the selected debate; moreover, it illustrates themethodological value of linking macro and micro perspectives in the study of competitive debates as a rhetorical genre and educationalactivity.

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