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On the rhetoricity of psycholinguistic experiments

Rákosi, Csilla (2014) On the rhetoricity of psycholinguistic experiments. ARGUMENTUM, 10. pp. 533-547. ISSN 1787-3606

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Abstract

Experiments have to be objective and intersubjectively controllable, and the experimental report must not make use of rhetorical tools that aim merely at persuading the reader but it has to allow the reader a direct access to the experimental evidence. At the same time, however, the reliability of psycholinguistic experiments does not seem to stem from an impersonal and straightforward linkage between “empirical facts” and hypotheses. Rather, it depends crucially on the peculiarities and the plausibility of the argumentation put forward in the experimental report, on its persuasiveness and its convincing force. The present paper aims at resolving this problem that I call the rhetorical paradox of psycholinguistic experiments.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: psycholinguistic experiments, rhetoric, plausible argumentation, philosophy of science
Subjects: P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet
Depositing User: Dr. Csilla Rákosi
Date Deposited: 16 Sep 2014 14:19
Last Modified: 03 Apr 2023 08:05
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/15095

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