Pre-election TV debates – persuasive games between ethos, logos, and pathos

Budzyńska-Daca, Agnieszka; Botwina, Renata

doi:10.1075/ds.26.03bud

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“…(Senate Historical Office 2022) Since then, public election debates have become common in many countries in the run-up to national, and in some instances subnational, elections (Anstead 2016;Debates International 2020;NDI 2021). The scholarly and public attention paid to how politicians make their statements in these debates and what effects that might have has not diminishedquite the contrary (Bossetta 2017;Budzyńska-Daca and Botwina 2015;Harris 2020;Heaney 2020;Kellman 2018;Marien et al 2020;Marietta 2009;Morris and Johnson 2011;Simon-Vandenbergen 2008).…”

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Televised Election Debates in a Deliberative System: The Role of Framing and Emotions

Turkenburg

2021

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Televised Election Debates in a Deliberative System: The Role of Framing and Emotions

Turkenburg

2021

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“…However, as election debates are not about determining a specific policy to be implemented, but about voting for a person to govern, the argumentation is adapted to that purpose. Candidates need to establish themselves as the best candidate for office by articulating their plans and abilities (Budzyńska-Daca and Botwina 2015).…”

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Reijven

2024

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Debates are important events during presidential elections in the U.S.A. Candidates are juxtaposed and engage with each other on a wide range of issues. This poses the question how disagreement between the two candidates and the public is managed. The aim of this paper is to articulate the prototypical argumentative pattern used by candidates which shows that to defend that the public should vote for them, candidates recurringly make three central claims. Specifically, they claim that some political action has to happen, they will do that action if elected, while their opponent will not. This basic argument scheme – which could be referred to as campaign promise argumentation – is further expanded by candidates by responding to six distinct critical questions, resulting in a prototypical argumentative pattern designed to deal with potential criticisms against a bid to become president.

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Confrontation and collaboration in the course of the election debate

Vasilyeva

2016

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The study explores verbal conflict in an institutional context and examines how the election debate format and the moderators’ actions contribute to the emergence of confrontation between themselves and the debaters, what communicative practices the debaters use to resist an institutionally preferred form of interactivity, and how the moderators manage this situation. The findings show that conflict arises around face concerns and violations of the institutional order. The debaters make a number of moves to challenge the moderators and the debate format, such as addressing questions to the moderators, criticizing the moderators, disagreeing with them, refusing to respond to their questions, explicitly questioning the rules of the debate, and aligning with other candidates. The moderators manage conflict by giving the floor to another candidate, minimally acknowledging a candidate’s move, providing an account for their action, agreeing with a candidate, indicating a violation of institutional rules, and not responding to a candidate’s move.

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Pre-election TV debates – persuasive games between ethos, logos, and pathos

Cited by 5 publications

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Televised Election Debates in a Deliberative System: The Role of Framing and Emotions

Televised Election Debates in a Deliberative System: The Role of Framing and Emotions

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Confrontation and collaboration in the course of the election debate

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