The Quest for Argumentative Equivalence: Argumentative patterns in political interpreting contexts

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Strategic manoeuvring in political interpreting contexts
	Research on interpreting in political contexts
	Topical selection: Implications for interpreting
	Adaptation to audience demand: Implications for interpreting
	Exploitation of presentational devices: Implications for interpreting
	Argumentative equivalence
2 Corpus and methodology
	Background: The financial-economic crisis and the Great Recession30
	Data homogeneity and representativeness
	Technical details of the corpus
	The American sub-corpus
	The British sub-corpus
	The French sub-corpus
	Analytical methodology
	Introductory remarks on crisis-related argumentation
3 Barack Obama
	Analogy argumentation
	Argumentation from values
	Anecdotal arguments
	Differences between national and international speeches
4 David Cameron
	Deficit reduction and the promotion of growth
	The global race and its counterpart
	The Big Society
	Argumentation in EU settings
	The slippery slope argument
	The straw man argument
	Authority argumentation
	A rhetorical peculiarity
5 Nicolas Sarkozy
	Introduction to the French text collection
	Analogy argumentation
	A crisis of confidence
	The moralisation of financial capitalism
	The restoration of the value of work
	Other pragmatic arguments
	The straw man argument
	Questions used as rhetorical devices
	A further rhetorical peculiarity
	A further argumentative peculiarity
6 François Hollande
	From Sarkozy to Hollande
	The perpetuation of the crisis of confidence
	Deficit reduction
	Growth
	The social conference
	Argumentation in European and international contexts
	A syntactic peculiarity
7 Conclusions
	Argumentative patterns in the
	corpus
	Political argumentation: Implications for simultaneous interpreting
	Further research
	References
References
Appendix
Index