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Chapter Three - Clichés as Argumentative Strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2022

Stella Bullo  and
Derek Bousfield
Stella Bullo
Affiliation:
Manchester Metropolitan University
Derek Bousfield
Affiliation:
Manchester Metropolitan University
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Summary

This chapter explores the use of clichés as argumentative strategies in online reception of political news items. It conceptualises clichés as strategies that draw on conventionalised inferable premises that warrant conclusion and link the argument with a claim, also known as topoi. Drawing on online commentaries in response to the same item of Brexit news across The Guardian, the Daily Mail and BBC News, the chapter explains how clichés as topoi operate as strategies to legitimise a position and to other members of a perceived out-group thereby allowing participatory media users to construe ideational and interpersonal meanings in the argumentation process.

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topoiargumentationlegitimationotheringparticipatory social media
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Talking in Clichés
The Use of Stock Phrases in Discourse and Communication
 , pp. 31 - 52
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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