%0 Journal Article
%T Miss South Carolina: a pragma-dialectical analysis
%A Crit車bal Joannon
%J Onom芍zein : Revista de Ling邦赤stica, Filolog赤a y Traducci車n
%D 2010
%I Facultad de Letras - Pontificia Universidad Cat車lica de Chile
%X This text presents an argumentative analysis of a very well-known interaction 每a so-called ※YouTube phenomenon§每 that a candidate of a Beauty Contest gave when she was asked about the reason why a fifth of American people is not able to locate the U.S. in a World map. This analysis uses the Pragma-dialectical approach to argumentative discourse in its dialectical and rethorical dimensions, and shows what powerful it is in order to decipher and evaluate the argumentative structure of a muddled discourse.
%K Argumentation
%K argumentative discourse
%K pragma-dialectics
%K School fo Amsterdam
%K strategic maneuvering
%K Miss South Carolina.
%U http://www.onomazein.net/21/08-JOANNON.pdf