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Fallacies and Free Speech

Selected Discourses in Early America

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Authors:
  1. Juhani Rudanko

    1. Department of English, Tampere University, TAMPERE, Finland

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  • Illustrates methods of pragmatics and discourse analysis that can be used in the analysis of authentic historical texts
  • Presents a new formulation of the neglected fallacy of ad socordiam
  • Argues on the basis of key debate on the Bill of Rights that the fallacy should be reinstated among standard fallacies

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 1-10

  3. Probing Deeper than the Surface of Discourse: Identifying Fallacies in a Political Debate in 1789

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 11-45

  4. Political Rhetoric in Wartime: A Case Study from 1812

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 47-81

  5. Attacks on the Madison Administration in the Federal Republican in Early 1813

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 83-97

  6. James Madison, the Father of Freedom of Speech

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 99-124

  7. Conclusion

    • Juhani Rudanko
    Pages 125-132

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 133-134
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About this book

This book offers a new perspective on selected discourses and texts bearing on the evolution of a distinctively American tradition of free speech. The author’s approach privileges fallacy theory, especially the fallacy of ad socordiam, in a key Congressional debate in 1789 and other forms of verbal manipulation in newspaper editorials during the War of 1812. He argues that in order to understand James Madison’s role in the evolution of a broad conception of freedom of speech, it is imperative to examine the nature of the verbal attacks targeted at him. These attacks are documented, analyzed with the concept of aggravated impoliteness, and used to demonstrate that it was Madison’s toleration of criticism, even in wartime, that provided a foundation for a broad conception of freedom of speech. This book will be of interest to both scholars and lay readers with an interest in the application of discourse analysis and historical pragmatics to political debates, argumentation theoryand fallacy theory, and the evolution of the concept of freedom of speech in the early years of the United States.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, Tampere University, TAMPERE, Finland

    Juhani Rudanko

About the author

Juhani Rudanko is Professor Emeritus at Tampere University, Finland. He was Associate Professor of English at that university from 1979 to 2001 and then Professor from 2001 to 2016. His publications include books and articles on the system of English predicate complementation, including its evolution, and on early American political history.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fallacies and Free Speech

  • Book Subtitle: Selected Discourses in Early America

  • Authors: Juhani Rudanko

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67877-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67876-0Published: 02 April 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67877-7Published: 01 April 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 134

  • Topics: Pragmatics, Historical Linguistics, US History, Social Sciences, general, Political Communication

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