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Conceptual Blending and the Rhetorical Triangle in Michael Cohen’s Congressional Testimony

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This paper analyzes the application of Conceptual Blending as proposed by Fauconnier and Turner (2002) and the rhetorical triangle proposed by Aristotle to examine Michael Cohen's congressional testimony (former attorney for President Donald Trump). Cohen testifies against President Trump aiming to convince members of the Congress that Trump misled him. It is assumed that language in such a formal situation should be simple and logical. Results prove that Cohen employs conceptual blending to create new effective structures and appeals more to passion instead of logic. Blending, as a linguistic tool, is to be skillfully employed according to the current situation. Appealing to passion through double-scope blending is a linguistic style suitable among family members and close friends. Formal settings, such as The Congress or any institutional setting, require simple words appealing to reason and logic. Misplaced blends result in undesirable effects. Cohen's utterances, mostly containing emotional language items serving as being components of blending, have lost their persuasive effect due to the misplaced mappings between linguistic choices

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10.21608/opde.2019.133830

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conceptual blending, Rhetorical Modes, Congressional Testimony

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Dalia M. Hamed

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Hamed

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67

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1

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19978

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2019-07-01

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2020-12-30

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2019-07-01

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201

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218

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1110-2721

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2735-3591

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CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education

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Conceptual Blending and the Rhetorical Triangle in Michael Cohen’s Congressional Testimony

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22 Jan 2023