Recent relevant publications by the members of the action
(2023) "Twitter Activists’ Argumentation Through Subdiscussions: Theory, Method and Illustration of the Controversy Surrounding Sustainable Fashion" by Sara Greco
“Why are millions of dollars worth of orders being left unpaid?”. With tweets like this questioning brands’ policies, activists advocating for sustainable fashion re-discuss material starting points that are assumed by fashion brands, who argue that they are sustainable because they care about their workers’ ... Read More
(2023) "Twitter Activists’ Argumentation Through Subdiscussions: Theory, Method and Illustration of the Controversy Surrounding Sustainable Fashion" by Sara Greco
“Why are millions of dollars worth of orders being left unpaid?”. With tweets like this questioning brands’ policies, activists advocating for sustainable fashion re-discuss material starting points that are assumed by fashion brands, who argue that they are sustainable because they care about their workers’ ... Read More
(2023) "The Institutionalization of Hatred Politics in the Mediterranean: Studying Corpora of Online News Portals During the European ‘Refugee Crisis’" by Dimitris Serafis, Franco Zappettini, Stavros Assimakopoulos
This paper aims to study the argumentative basis on which the prevention of migration is justified and hatred politics is institutionalised in three Mediterranean settings, namely Greece, Malta, and Italy, that were at the centre of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ in 2015–2017. Following the rubric of ... Read More
(2023) "Provocative Insinuations as Hate Speech: Argumentative Functions of Mentioning Ethnicity in Headlines" by Álvaro Domínguez-Armas, Andrés Soria-Ruiz, Marcin Lewiński
We explore a particular type of propagandistic message, which we call “provocative insinuation”. For example: ‘Iraqi refugee is convicted in Germany of raping and murdering teenage girl’. Although this sentence seems to merely report a fact, it also conveys a potentially hateful message about Iraqi ... Read More
(2023) "How to identify an argument type? On the hermeneutics of argumentative discourse" by Jean H.M. Wagemans
This paper proposes a theory of interpreting argument types as an integral part of a systematic and comprehensive ‘hermeneutics of persuasive discourse’. It first explains how such a hermeneutics can be developed based on pragmatic insights about the use of language for persuasive purposes expressed ... Read More
(2023) "High Costs and Low Benefits: Analysis and Evaluation of the “I’m Not Stupid” Argument" by Henrike Jansen
This article presents an analysis and evaluation of what I call the “I’m not stupid” argument. This argument has ancient roots, which lie in Aristotle’s famous description of the weak man’s and strong man’s arguments. An “I’m not stupid” argument ... Read More
(2023) "Dismantling European values: News reporting on the ‘refugee crisis’ and discriminatory attitudes in Greek newspeak. Southeastern Europe" by Dimitris Serafis, Stavros Assimakopoulos
Since 2015, the mobilization of refugee and migrant populations towards the European Union has at times monopolised public debate, and the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ has put fundamental European values, such as solidarity, to the test. In this article, the authors focus on Greece with the aim ... Read More
(2023) "Connecting ethics and epistemology of AI" by Federica Russo, Eric Schliesser, Jean H. M. Wagemans
The need for fair and just AI is often related to the possibility of understanding AI itself, in other words, of turning an opaque box into a glass box, as inspectable as possible. Transparency and explainability, however, pertain to the technical domain and to philosophy ... Read More
(2023) "Can an AI analyze arguments? Argument-checking and the challenges of assessing the quality of online information" by Ruben Brave, Federica Russo, Ondrej Uzovic, Jean H.M. Wagemans
In this chapter, we present and discuss an ongoing project to develop a glass-box AI engine called KRINO – from Greek, to judge, criticize, reason – capable of parsing written text on the discourse level and analyzing the arguments thereby contained. KRINO is designed to assist users ... Read More
(2023) "Branding Brexit: A big data textual approach" by Franco Zappettini, Kay. L. O’ Halloran, Dimitris Serafis, Minhao Jin
Political branding responds to the need of parties to effectively differentiate themselves from others, and to produce suitable messages in a roster of digital media, by drawing on data-driven insights (Susila et al. 2019; Jungherr et al. 2020). For this reason, understanding how political brands communicate and ... Read More
(2023) "Authority Argument Schemes, Types, and Critical Questions" by Shiyang Yu & Frank Zenker
Authority arguments generate support for claims by appealing to an agent’s authority status, rather than to reasons independent of it. With few exceptions, the current literature on argument schemes acknowledges two basic authority types. The epistemic type grounds in knowledge, the deontic type grounds ... Read More
(2023) "Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal discourse and argumentation in times of multiple crises in Greece" by Dimitris Serafis
This volume offers a critical discursive-argumentative framework that scrutinizes the discursive construction and, moreover, the argumentative justification of authoritarian attitudes on newspaper front pages in highly polarized times of multiple ‘crises’ in Greece. At the same time, it aspires to outline novel research avenues for ... Read More
(2023) "Argumentation in end-of-life conversations with families in Dutch intensive care units: a qualitative observational study" by Aranka Akkermans, Sanne Prins, Amber S. Spijkers, Jean H. M. Wagemans, Nanon H. M. Labrie, Dick L. Willems, Marcus J. Schultz, Thomas G. V. Cherpanath, Job B. M. van Woensel, Marc van Heerde, Anton H. van Kaam, Moniek van de Loo, Anne Stiggelbout, Ellen M. A. Smets, Mirjam A. de Vos
In intensive care units (ICUs), decisions about the continuation or discontinuation of life-sustaining treatment (LST) are made on a daily basis. Professional guidelines recommend an open exchange of standpoints and underlying arguments between doctors and families to arrive at the most appropriate decision. Yet, it ... Read More
(2023) "Argumentatieanalyse" by Jos Hornikx, Jean H.M. Wagemans
In dit hoofdstuk leer je wat argumentatieanalyse inhoudt en wat het doel ervan is: een methode waarmee je stap voor stap kunt bepalen of de argumentatie in een betoog aanvaardbaar is; wat de theoretische achtergronden zijn van de argumentatieanalyse: de klassieke disciplines logica, dialectica en ... Read More
(2023) "Arguing through best practice: The role of argumentation from example in activists’ social media posts on sustainable fashion" by Sara Greco, Chiara Mercuri, Barbara De Cock, Rebecca Schär
Examining a multilingual dataset of Twitter and Instagram messages posted by a variety of actors (NGOs and individual activists, small brands, and others) during the 2020 and 2021 Fashion Revolution Week campaigns for a more sustainable fashion system, we analyze frequently occurring discursive representations and self-representations that ... Read More
(2022) "Unveiling the rationale of soft hate speech in multimodal artefacts: A critical framework" by Dimitris Serafis
This article sets out to outline a methodological framework that enables us to unravel the underlying reasoning of covert hatred (i.e. soft hate speech), through an examination of the ways in which this is realised and, moreover, argumentatively justified in multimodal artefacts of the ... Read More
(2022) "The persuasive and manipulative power of implicit communication" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, Federica Cominetti and Viviana Masia
This Article Collection gathers eight contributions on the persuasive and manipulative power of linguistic implicit communication. The phenomenon is dealt with from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, with articles elucidating diversities between different implicit strategies in terms of discourse functions and cognitive processing, and others ... Read More
(2022) "The dynamic contribution of implicit meaning to the context: variability in real usage" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, Laura Baranzini, Doriana Cimmino
The special issue is devoted to the empirical description and theoretical discussion of the dynamic interaction between implicit and explicit linguistic meaning in real usage. In particular, the focus is on how the interpretation of implicit meanings varies according to different contexts. More details ... Read More
(2022) "Securitization, Emergency and the Rediscovery of Responsibility in Times of Pandemic: Analyzing Political Discourses from the European South" by Salomi Boukala, Dimitris Serafis
This chapter intends to provide an argumentative perspective on the justification of securitization by Southern EU’s political leaders in times of a public health crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic by examining instances of public discourses, specifically addresses to the nation of four EU leaders ... Read More
(2022) "Scroll culture and authoritarian populism: How Turkish and Greek online news aggravate “refugee crisis” tensions" by Lyndon Way, Dimitris Serafis
News consumers are more likely to inform themselves through digital news outlets and social media ‘newsfeeds’ than physical newspapers [Ofcom. (2022). News Consumption in the UK: 2022. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/241947/News-Consumption-in-the-UK-2022-report.pdf]. Guided by our thumbs, we scroll through news ... Read More
(2022) "Sailing to Ithaka The transmutation of Greek left-populism in discourses about the European Union" by Dimitris Serafis, E. Dimitris Kitis, Stavros Assimakopoulos
This paper examines the reasoning lines in PM Alexis Tsipras’ political discourse in critical moments of SYRIZA’s tenure as the ruling party in Greece. Adopting a CDS perspective, we zoom in on the patterns that underlie the (de)legitimization of the crisis-ridden EU in ... Read More
(2022) "Polarizing representations of immigrant communities in Belgian French-speaking online political discourse" by Barbara De Cock, Pauline Dupret, Philippe Hambye, Andrea Pizarro Pedraza
In this study, we will present an analysis of how polarization, and more specifically polarizing representations of immigrant communities, are discursively constructed in the online discourse of Belgian French-speaking politicians. Our study is based on Facebook and Twitter messages from leading politicians from all major ... Read More
(2022) "Persuasive rather than ‘binding’ EU soft law? An argumentative perspective on the European Commission’s soft law instruments in times of crisis" by Andone, C. and F. Coman-Kund
This paper starts from the premise that argumentation in EU (Commission) soft law instruments is essential for their effectiveness, mainly due to its function to persuade addressees as a means to enhance compliance. Notwithstanding their importance in the EU legal-political landscape, the problem is how ... Read More
(2022) "On Arguments from Ignorance in Policy-Making" by Corina Andone, José Alfonso Lomelí Hernández
“Schools should remain open during the COVID-19 pandemic, because there is no evidence indicating that children can get the virus.” Many European policy-makers have employed such arguments from ignorance to argue for a course of action in a situation in which science lacked vital information. ... Read More
(2022) "More than Relata Refero: Representing the Various Roles of Reported Speech in Argumentative Discourse" by Federico Gobbo, Marco Benini, Jean H. M. Wagemans
Reported speech, or relata refero, although not always part of the argumentation tout court, can be an important element of argumentative discourse. It might, for instance, provide information on the position of another party in the discussion or function as part of the premise of ... Read More
(2022) "Legitimation in government social media communication: the case of the Brexit department" by Sten Hansson, Ruth Page
When governments introduce controversial policies or face a risk of policy failure, officeholders try to avoid blame and justify their decisions by using various legitimation strategies. This paper focuses on the ways in which legitimations are expressed in government social media communication, using the Twitter ... Read More
(2022) "Information Structure effects on the processing of nouns and verbs: evidence from event-related potentials" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, Emanuela Piciucco, Viviana Masia, Emanuele Maiorana & Patrizio Campisi
Electroencephalographic (EEG) signals can reveal the cost required to deal with information structure mismatches in speech or in text contexts. The present study investigates the costs related to the processing of different associations between the syntactic categories of Noun and Verb and the information categories ... Read More
(2022) "Implicit strategies aimed at persuading the audience in public debates" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri
Starting from the assumption that implicit strategies like pre-suppositions and implicatures can be used to reduce the tendency to critical reaction by addressees of linguistic utterances, which qualifies such strategies as useful persuasive devices, the paper also recalls that for this reason they are a ... Read More
(2022) "Faire campagne sur Twitter: permanences et évolutions en contexte de campagne électorale. Le cas des candidats et candidates à l’élection européenne en Belgique, Espagne, France et Royaume-Uni" by Sandrine Roginsky, Barbara De Cock
How are the activities of political representation staged on a particular media space, Twitter, in the context of the campaigns for the European elections of May 2014 and May 2019? Based on a comparative analysis of the biographies and publications on Twitter of MEPs standing for re-election ... Read More
(2022) "Evaluating Reasoning in Natural Arguments: A Procedural Approach" by Martin Hinton, Jean H. M. Wagemans
In this paper, we formulate a procedure for assessing reasoning as it is expressed in natural arguments. The procedure is a specification of one of the three aspects of argumentation assessment distinguished in the Comprehensive Assessment Procedure for Natural Argumentation (CAPNA) (Hinton, 2021) that makes use ... Read More
(2022) "Evaluating Reasoning in Natural Arguments: A Procedural Approach" by Martin Hinton, Jean H. M. Wagemans
In this paper, we formulate a procedure for assessing reasoning as it is expressed in natural arguments. The procedure is a specification of one of the three aspects of argumentation assessment distinguished in the Comprehensive Assessment Procedure for Natural Argumentation (CAPNA) (Hinton, 2021) that makes use ... Read More
(2022) "Crisis response strategies in political interviews: A European Union Perspective" by Corina Andone
This chapter contributes to the study of crisis communication by investigating the argumentative dimension of crisis response strategies in political interviews. As political interviews are accountability practices, crisis responses by political actors are seen as persuasive attempts at (re)enacting reputation and creating citizen trust. ... Read More
(2022) "Corpus-assisted analysis of legitimation strategies in government social media communication" by Sten Hansson, Ruth Page
When governments introduce controversial policies that many citizens disapprove of, officeholders increasingly use discursive legitimation strategies in their public communication to ward off blame. In this paper, we contribute to the study of blame avoidance in government social media communication by exploring how corpus-assisted discourse ... Read More
(2022) "Comunicación profesional y Estudios del discurso" by Esperanza Morales López, Barbara De Cock
The terms professional communication or professional discourse are relatively recent notions in the field of discourse studies in Spanish. As López Ferrero (2002) points out, they were first used to replace the notions languages or communication for specific purposes to show the more discursive orientation ... Read More
(2022) "Clarity, transparency and legitimacy in law-making and adjudication" by Corina Andone, Candida Leone
The Theory and Practice of Legislation has been publishing research aimed at making a contribution to understanding, interpreting and assessing the quality of legislation. Many special issues have been dedicated to the examination of legislation, both at national and international levels. To this day good ... Read More
(2022) "Changing concepts of greenhouse gas expressions: Discursive specialization in parliamentary discourses on climate change" by Anje Müller Gjesdal, Gisle Andersen
Global environmental change has provoked changes in how humans experience and perceive their relationship to nature. Such conceptual changes can be observed through language use, and specifically lexical change. This paper investigates how such changes manifest through an analysis of how the terms ‘greenhouse gas’, ‘... Read More
(2022) "Argumentation in European Politics" by Corina Andone, Bart Garssen (Eds.).
In 2013 the Journal of Argumentation in Context published a special issue (edited by Lewinski and Mohammed 2013) bringing together theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of argumentation in political deliberative contexts. Almost a decade after this publication, the study of political argumentation has remained as ... Read More
(2022) "Argumentatie, zelfpromotie of beide? Een analyse van de tweets van Nederlandstalige politici en experten over de covid-19- pandemie" by Jan Albert van Laar, Barbara De Cock
In dit onderzoek laten we de argumentatieve functies zien van zelfverwijzing en zelfpromotie in de tweets van Nederlandstalige politici en experten in de beginfase van de covid-19-pandemie. Daartoe combineren we pragmatischdiscursieve analyse en inzichten uit argumentatietheorie. In de eerste plaats bespreken we verschillende manieren ... Read More
(2022) "Argument-Checking: A Critical Pedagogy Approach to Digital Literacy" by Ruben Brave, Federica Russo, Jean Wagemans
The digital revolution brought about unprecedented changes in people’s daily lives as well as in techno-scientific contexts. In this paper, we address the problem of information overload people experience in online media, news outlets, and social media. The problem is well-known for its negative ... Read More
(2022) "Arguing through quotations. The case of European Commission press releases" by Andone, C
This paper analyses and evaluates the use of arguments in which quotations are employed to convince the addressees of the acceptability of a proposed action. Based on the European Commission’s press releases, a communicative practice in which quotations are typically employed, the study demonstrates ... Read More
(2022) "“I was only quoting”: Shifting viewpoint and speaker commitment" by Ronny Boogaart , Henrike Jansen, Maarten van Leeuwen
When people are accused of having said something objectionable, for instance because it is considered false or inappropriate, various strategies are available for denying or diminishing the speaker’s commitment to the contested utterance (Boogaart, Jansen & van Leeuwen 2021). In this chapter we take a ... Read More
(2022) " On Numerical Arguments in Policymaking" by Corina Andone
The use of numerical arguments has become part and parcel of evidence-based policymaking, serving increasingly as scientific evidence which is used to back up policy decisions and to convince citizens of the acceptability of those decisions. But numerical arguments and their quality and potential persuasive ... Read More
(2021) A case of intergenerational conflict: The 2015 Finnish citizens’ initiative on pension indexation, by Kathrin Komp-Leukkunen and Ville Rantanen
forthcoming in Journal of Aging & Social Policy. Read More
(2021) "Victims or agents of change? The representation and self-representation of women in the social media debate surrounding sustainable fashion" by Sara Greco; Chiara Mercuri; Barbara De Cock
This paper analyzes the social media debate on sustainable fashion on the basis of a multilingual dataset of Instagram posts and tweets. We focus on how women are discursively represented in terms of agentivity and how this is associated to different argumentative strategies. Our findings ... Read More
(2021) "Victims or agents for change? Representations and self-representations of women in the social media debate surrounding sustainable fashion" by Sara Greco, Chiara Mercuri, Barbara De Cock
This paper analyzes the social media debate on sustainable fashion on the basis of a multilingual dataset of Instagram posts and tweets. We focus on how women are discursively represented in terms of agentivity and how this is associated to different argumentative strategies. Our findings ... Read More
(2021) "Thematic Section:Critical perspectives on migration in discourse & communication" by Dimitris Serafis, Jolanta Drzewiecka, Sara Greco (special issue guest editors)
While these lines were written, Taliban were conquering Afghanistan, establishing a regime of terror in the country, while concurrently provoking a wide conflict in the Western public sphere about responsibilities and consequences of this situation. More specifically, Europe witnesses a racist and xenophobic wave of ... Read More
(2021) "The rise of Instagram as a tool for political communication: A longitudinal study of European political parties and their followers" by Anders Olof Larsson
Featuring a longitudinal, structural study of European party and citizen activity on Instagram between 2012 and 2018, this article outlines the overarching changes in the ways that Instagram has been employed for political party communication. Differentiating between populist and non-populist political parties, the results indicate that much ... Read More
(2021) "The presentational dimension of Geert Wilders’s populist argumentative style" by Henrike Jansen, Maarten van Leeuwen
This study responds to van Eemeren’s (2019, 2021) call for research on the prototypical argumentative styles used in particular domains or communicative activity types by particular individuals or groups. It explores the argumentative style of Dutch politician Geert Wilders in presenting populist arguments, i.e., arguments ... Read More
(2021) "The Power of Free Speech without Adequate Tools – Political Rhetoric in Croatia" by Gabrijela Kišiček
This essay focuses on the power of rhetoric in a political discourse analyzing the rhetorical skills of a contemporary Croatian politicians. Croatia as a post-communist country paid very little attention to rhetorical education, and as a consequence people who enter political arena are not competent ... Read More
(2021) "The Philosophy of Argument" by Wagemans, J.H.M.
The chapter provides an overview of the philosophy of argument. It describes the conceptual and systematic aspects of logic, dialectic, and rhetoric, and illustrates how the insights developed within these classical disciplines are reflected in approaches within the present-day field of argumentation theory. The overview ... Read More
(2021) "The naming of emotions in dispute mediators’ strategic manoeuvring: a case study using a French language corpus" by Sara Greco, Sara Cigada, Chiara Jermini-Martinez Soria
This paper sets out to analyse why dispute mediators identify disputants’ euphoric and dysphoric emotions in the context of mediation discussions, turning them into “said” emotions. Our analysis is based on a corpus of seven role-played mediation sessions, which took place in French. Adopting the ... Read More
(2021) "Stock issues and the structure of argumentative discussions: An integrative analysis" by Popa, O.E. & Wagemans, J.H.M.
We develop a method for analyzing argumentative discussions centered around the notions of ‘stock issues’, i.e., the field-dependednt standard issues addressed by the participants insuch discussions. The method yields an overview of the structure and content of complexargumentative discussions with multiple participants, including the ... Read More
(2021) "Stereotypes Favour Implicatures and Implicatures Smuggle Stereotypes: The Case of Propaganda" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri
The paper builds on the assumption that conveying some information implicitly causes reduced critical attention on that content by addressees, as compared to the overt assertion of the same content. This may have precise evolutionary reasons, connected to the core functions for which language has ... Read More
(2021) "Stereotypes Favour Implicatures and Implicatures Smuggle Stereotypes: The Case of Propaganda." by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri
The paper builds on the assumption that conveying some information implicitly causes reduced critical attention on that content by addressees, as compared to the overt assertion of the same content. This may have precise evolutionary reasons, connected to the core functions for which language has ... Read More
(2021) "Slippery Slope Arguments in Legal Contexts: Towards Argumentative Patterns" by Bin Wang & Frank Zenker
Addressing the slippery slope argument (SSA) in legal contexts from the perspective of pragma-dialectics, this paper elaborates the conditions under which an SSA-scheme instance is used reasonably (rather than fallaciously). We review SSA-instances in past legal decisions and analyze the basic legal SSA-scheme. By illustrating ... Read More
(2021) "Reception of climate activist messages by low-carbon transition actors: Argument evasion in the carbon offsetting debate" by Üzelgün, M. A., Fernandes-Jesus, M. & Küçükural, Ö.
How do adherents to hegemonic discourses construe and respond to radical arguments by activists? To address the question, we examined how adherents to hegemonic climate change discourses react to a climate activist’s arguments. In interviews conducted with corporate actors of low-carbon transitions, we used ... Read More
(2021) "Provocative Insinuations" by Álvaro Domínguez-Armas, Andrés Soria-Ruiz
In this paper we analyse utterances that, without explicitly constituting hate speech, nevertheless convey a hateful message. For example, in the headline “Iraqi Refugee is convicted in Germany of raping and murdering teenage girl”, the presence of “Iraqi refugee” does not seem arbitrary. To the ... Read More
(2021) "Presupposition, Attention and Cognitive Load" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri
The paper deals with the relation between linguistic presupposition and epistemic vigilance. It proposes evolutionary and cognitive reasons why presuppositions should induce shallower processing, that proves effective in persuasion and manipulation. It shows examples of presuppositions being associated with reduced critical attention from commercial advertising ... Read More
(2021) "Presupposition, attention and cognitive load" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri
The paper deals with the relation between linguistic presupposition and epistemic vigilance. It proposes evolutionary and cognitive reasons why presuppositions should induce shallower processing, that proves effective in persuasion and manipulation. It shows examples of presuppositions being associated with reduced critical attention from commercial advertising ... Read More
(2021) "Presupposing indefinite descriptions" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, Laura Baranzini & Federica Cominetti
The IMPAQTS corpus of Italian political speeches annotated per implicit contents contains recurrent examples of NPs introduced by indefinite articles which are characterized by anaphoric specific reference:(Questa legge) hanno tentato di dichiararla anticostituzionale per non applicarla a una persona che si ritiene al di ... Read More
(2021) "Presupposing indefinite descriptions" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, Federica Cominetti, Laura Baranzini
The IMPAQTS corpus of Italian political speeches annotated per implicit contents contains recurrent examples of NPs introduced by indefinite articles which are characterized by anaphoric specific reference: (Questa legge) hanno tentato di dichiararla anticostituzionale per non applicarla a una persona che si ritiene al di ... Read More
(2021) "Paranegations and the Square of Oppositions" by Mariusz Urbanski, Zofia Zmójdzin
In this paper, a description of semantics for non-classical negations of paralogics CLuN and CLaN is presented in terms of the theory of oppositions. An outline of a synthetic tableaux method for these and some other paralogics is given as well. More details here Read More
(2021) "Manipulative Shallow Processing Induced by Presuppositions and Topics: Theoretical Perspectives and Experimental Evidence" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri
The paper shows that implicit strategies for questionable contents are frequent in persuasive texts, as compared to texts with other purposes. It proposes that the persuasive and manipulative effectiveness of introducing questionable contents implicitly can be explained through established cognitive patterns, namely that what is ... Read More
(2021) "Less Scheming, More Typing: Musings on the Waltonian Legacy in Argument Technologies" by Fabio Paglieri
“Less Scheming, More Typing: Musings on the Waltonian Legacy in Argument Technologies” by Fabio Paglieri was published in Journal of Applied Logics — IfCoLog Journal of Logics and their Applications Vol. 8 (1) 2021, 219-244 Abstract The rich and complex legacy of Walton’s theoretical work for argument technologies ... Read More
(2021) "Justification of decision-making in response to COVID-19 socio-scientific dilemmas" by Dalyot, K., Rozenblum, Y.& Baram-Tsabari, A.
Dalyot, K., Rozenblum, Y.& Baram-Tsabari, A. (2022), Justification of decision-making in response to COVID-19 socio-scientific dilemmas in The Pandemic of Argumentation. Springer International Publishing. More information here Read More
(2021) "How do scientists criticize the computer metaphor of the brain? Using an argumentative pattern for reconstructing resistance to metaphor" by Finsen, A.B., Steen, G.J. & Wagemans, J.H.M.
The central metaphor in cognitive science is the computer metaphor of thebrain. In previous work, we reconstructed the metaphor in a novel way,guided by the assumption that it functions as an explanatory hypothesis. Wedeveloped an argumentative pattern for justifying scientic explanations inwhich this ... Read More
(2021) "From visual rhetoric to multimodal argumentation: exploring the rhetorical and argumentative relevance of multimodal figures on the covers of The Economist" by Assimakis Tseronis
Visual rhetoric is more often than not identified with the search for patterns of visual form and content which convey meaning in ways that resemble the meaning construed by known rhetorical figures. Despite the numerous proposals for the classification of figures construed verbally or visually, ... Read More
(2021) "Distinguishing psychological Given/New from linguistic Topic/Focus makes things clearer" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri
The paper suggests that there is no contradiction in cleft sentences focalizing information which was already introduced by the preceding context, because being already active in discourse (i.e., Given) is not the same as being linguistically encoded as a Topic, and Given information can ... Read More
(2021) "Discurso de Ódio, Jornalismo e Participação das Audiências - Enquadramento, Regulação e Boas Práticas" by Marisa Torres da Silva (Coord.), João Gonçalves, Pedro Coelho & Maria José Brites
Discurso de Ódio, Jornalismo e Participação das Audiências. Enquadramento, regulação e boas práticas é o título do livro que acaba de ser publicado na Coleção Regulação dos Media/Almedina, dinamizada pela Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social (ERC). ... Read More
(2021) "Critical perspectives on migration in discourse and communication: An introduction" by Dimitris Serafis, Carlo Raimondo, Stavros Assimakopoulos, Sara Greco, Andrea Rocci
The present paper analyses discursive representations and standpoint-arguments pairs, realized in articles of four mainstream Italian newspapers that report on migrants’ and refugees’ mobilization at the perceived peak of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ (2015–2017). We draw on the scholarly agenda of Critical Discourse Studies, employing tools ... Read More
(2021) "Complex arguments in Adpositional Argumentation (AdArg)" by Federico Gobbo, Marco Benini, Jean H.M. Wagemans
Adpositional Argumentation (AdArg) is a new method for annotating argumentative discourse that represents linguistic and pragmatic information in argumentative adpositional trees. In this paper, we explain how the representation of claims and individual arguments provide the building blocks for more complex argumentation structures. We illustrate ... Read More
(2021) "Common sense or censorship: How algorithmic moderators and message type influence perceptions of online content deletion" by Gonçalves J, Weber I, Masullo GM, Torres da Silva M, Hofhuis J.
Hateful content online is a concern for social media platforms, policymakers, and the public. This has led high-profile content platforms, such as Facebook, to adopt algorithmic content-moderation systems; however, the impact of algorithmic moderation on user perceptions is unclear. We experimentally test the extent to ... Read More
(2021) "Climate change lifestyle narratives among Norwegian citizens: A linguistic analysis of survey discourse." by Gjerstad, Øyvind, Fløttum, Kjersti
The present study proposes an analysis of climate change (CC) narratives in answers to an open‐ended survey question, where we ask what a climate‐friendly lifestyle may imply. The representative survey has been conducted online by the Norwegian Citizen Panel/DIGSSCORE, located at the ... Read More
(2021) "Climate Change in the 2019 Canadian Federal Election" by Shelley Boulianne, Stephanie Belland, Nikita Sleptcov and Anders Olof Larsson
In the weeks before the 2019 federal election, climate change strikes occurred in Canada and across the globe, which may have increased the salience of this policy issue. We use two data sources to examine the role of climate change in the 2019 federal election: a representative ... Read More
(2021) "Climate change and lifestyle: people’s expressed motivations to adopt or not adopt a climate-friendly way of life." by Fløttum, Kjersti, Gjerstad, Øyvind, Skiple, Jon KåreK.
Climate change (CC) affects both our personal everyday lifestyle choices and how we perceive of the future of humanity. Based on open-ended survey questions providing answers freely formulated by 1,077 Norwegian citizens, the aim of this paper is to see how people express their motivation for ... Read More
(2021) "Characteristics of a detached argumentative style in public policy analysis: Text types as presentational choices" by Sandrine Roginsky, Barbara De Cock
This study is a contribution to the recently introduced notion of argumentative style (van Eemeren 2019) in the framework of the pragma-dialectical approach. It aims at characterizing a detached argumentative style, by focusing on a speech event pertaining to the communicative activity type organizational discourse, a ... Read More
(2021) "Argumentative misalignments in the controversy surrounding fashion sustainability" by Sara Greco and Barbara De Cock
“Argumentative misalignments in the controversy surrounding fashion sustainability” by Sara Greco and Barbara De Cock has been published in Journal of Pragmatics Vol 174 (2021), 55-67 Abstract In light of the ongoing public controversy surrounding fashion sustainability, this paper sets out to identify misalignments that relate to ... Read More
(2021) "Argumentative dynamics in representations of migrants and refugees: Evidence from the Italian press during the ‘refugee crisis’" by Dimitris Serafis, Carlo Raimondo, Stavros Assimakopoulos, Sara Greco, Andrea Rocci
The present paper analyses discursive representations and standpoint-arguments pairs, realized in articles of four mainstream Italian newspapers that report on migrants’ and refugees’ mobilization at the perceived peak of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ (2015–2017). We draw on the scholarly agenda of Critical Discourse Studies, employing tools ... Read More
(2021) "Argument Type Identification Procedure (ATIP) – Version 4" by Wagemans, J.H.M.
What type of argument is this? Unlike for standard textbook examples, this question may be difficult to answer for natural arguments found in the wild. The Argument Type Identification Procedure (ATIP) described in this document helps the analyst of argumentative discourse to meet this challenge. ... Read More
(2021) "An Abductive Question-Answer System for the Minimal Logic of Formal Inconsistency mbC" by Szymon Chlebowski, Andrzej Gajda, Mariusz Urbanski
The aim in this paper is to define an Abductive Question-Answer System for the minimal logic of formal inconsistency mbCmbC. As a proof-theoretical basis we employ the Socratic proofs method. The system produces abductive hypotheses; these are answers to abductive questions concerning derivability of formulas ... Read More
(2021) "Adversarial argumentation and common ground in Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations" by King, Colin Guthrie
In this paper I provide support for the view that at least some forms of adversariality in argumentation are legitimate. The support comes from Aristotle’s theory of illegitimate adversarial argumentation in dialectical contexts: his theory of eristic in his work On Sophistical Refutations. Here ... Read More
(2021) "Abductive reasoning: let’s “Find Out” some models" by Natalia Zyluk, Mariusz Urbanski, Dorota Zelechowska
We present preliminary results on modelling structure of solutions to a task involving abductive reasoning. Research data were gathered using our new tool—Find Out, which has been designed in order to account empirically for abduction relatively close to everyday reasoning processes, with the necessary ... Read More
(2021) "(De)Politicizing Polyamory: Social Media Comments on Media Representations of Consensual Non-Monogamies" by Daniel Cardoso, Ana Rosa, Marisa Torres da Silva
Our research sits at the intersection of communication studies, sociology, cyberculture, and political philosophy and theory. In 2014, a 10+-min segment on polyamory aired on Portuguese open-access national television, during the prime-time newscast, and was viewed by several million people, according to official reports. The news ... Read More
(2021) "(De-)Constructing New Zealand PM Jacinda Adern’s initiative to wear the hijab after the Christchurch terrorist attack: Critical perspectives on newspapers’ discourse and argumentation" by Neda Salahshour, Dimitris Serafis
This paper examines the discursive construction of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern after she wore a veil following the unprecedented terror attack in two mosques in the city of Christchurch in 2019. The articles analyzed are collected from three main newspapers published in New Zealand’s three ... Read More
(2021) "“Those are Your Words, Not Mine!” Defence Strategies for Denying Speaker Commitment’" by Ronny Boogaart, Henrike Jansen, Maarten van Leeuwen
In response to an accusation of having said something inappropriate, the accused may exploit the difference between the explicit contents of their utterance and its implicatures. Widely discussed in the pragmatics literature are those cases in which arguers accept accountability only for the explicit contents ... Read More
(2021) " How Face Threatening Are Disagreement Moves? A Proposal for an Integration of Insights from Politeness Theory into Argumentation Theory" by Assimakis Tseronis
Studies on conflict talk and disagreement in everyday argumentative interactions adopt various theoretical perspectives ranging from social psychology and interactional sociolinguistics to ethnography and conversation analysis. However, no systematic reference is made to theoretical frameworks for the study of argumentative discourse, which link the expression ... Read More
(2020) “Reassessing different conceptions of argumentation” by Catarina Dutilh Novaes
“Reassessing different conceptions of argumentation” by Catarina Dutilh Novaes has been published in the book: Tanesini & M. Lynch (eds.), Polarisation, Arrogance, and Dogmatism: Philosophical Perspectives. London, Routledge, 2020. More details, here. Read More
(2020) “Changing minds through argumentation: Black Pete as a case study” by Catarina Dutilh Novaes (co-author)
in Reason to Dissent. Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation [Groningen 2019] Read More
(2020) "Why missing premises can be missed: Evaluating arguments by determining their lever" by Wagemans, J.H.M.
Traditional conceptualizations of argument usually include a ‘connecting premise’ or ‘ warrant’ that needs to be added by the analyst when missing from the original discourse. This paper provides an alternative to adding such missing premises from a list of predefined argument schemes by using the ... Read More
(2020) "The Role of Trust in Argumentation" by Catarina Dutilh Novaes
“The Role of Trust in Argumentation” by Catarina Dutilh Novaes has been published in Informal Logic,Vol 40 No 2 (2020), 205-236. Abstract Argumentation is important for sharing knowledge and information. Given that the receiver of an argument purportedly engages first and foremost with its content, one might ... Read More
(2020) "The relevance of criteria for identifying fake news in social media: What COVID-19 infodemia reveals" by Badichi, T., Dalyot, K., & Baram-Tsabari, A.
“The relevance of criteria for identifying fake news in social media: What COVID-19 infodemia reveals” by Badichi, T., Dalyot, K., & Baram-Tsabari, A. Read More
(2020) "The prospects for multimodal schemes of argument: Assessing the spoofing strategies in subvertisements of the tobacco industry" by Assimakis Tseronis
Recourse to argument schemes and to their accompanying critical questions can provide a fruitful way of assessing visual and multimodal arguments. The prospects of such an approach are discussed based on analyses of spoof ads. Their spoofing strategy amounts to raising critical questions about the ... Read More
(2020) "Representing second-order arguments with Adpositional Argumentation (AdArg)" by Gobbo, F. & Wagemans, J.H.M.
This paper extends a high-precision method for representing ‘first-order’ arguments to the linguistically and pragmatically more complex ‘second-order’ arguments (such as the argument from authority). It thereby contributes to the further development of Adpositional Argumentation (AdArg), an approach to representing argumentative discourse with applications in ... Read More
(2020) "Public Deliberation and Epistemic Parity in Direct Democracies", by Léa Farine
“Public Deliberation and Epistemic Parity in Direct Democracies”, by Léa Farine, has been published in the Proceedings of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA) Abstract: “In a context of public-policy making, I propose to consider a fundamental norm of epistemic parity ... Read More
(2020) "Pragmatique cognitive, argumentation et perlocution" by Steve Oswald
This paper discusses the links between pragmatics (defined as the study of meaning in context) and the study of argumentation in order to ground a pragmatic approach to perlocution. Traditionally devoted to the study of illocutionary meaning, in the vein of speech act theory, pragmatics ... Read More
(2020) "Picture-perfect populism: Tracing the rise of European populist parties on Facebook" by Anders Olof Larsson
This article presents a longitudinal, structural study where party and citizen activity on Facebook is studied over a 10-year period, outlining the growing importance of audio-visual content for online campaigning purposes – as well as the rise of populist parties on the same platform. The study ... Read More
(2020) "Multimodal arguments in the mainstream press: Illustrating portrayals of migration" by Dimitris Serafis, Sara Greco, Chiara Pollaroli & Chiara Jermini-Martinez Soria
This paper sketches a methodological integration of tools from multimodal discourse analysis and argumentation in order to unveil opaque argumentative inferences emerging in multimodal configurations (i.e., headlines and press photos) of seemingly non-argumentative genres such as news articles. We offer illustrative examples from the ... Read More
(2020) "Moral and Vocational Dilemmas Meet the Common Currency Hypothesis: a Contribution to Value Commensurability" by Eleonora Viganò & Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri
Moral dilemmas have long been debated in moral philosophy without reaching a definitive consensus. The majority of value pluralists attribute their origin to the incommensurability of moral values, i.e. the statement that, since moral values are many and different in nature, they may conflict ... Read More
(2020) "Listen Carefully! Fallacious Auditory Arguments" by Gabrijela Kišiček
In some cases, prosodic features (or other forms of sound) which accompany verbal message might be an essential part of an argument. The same as verbal, auditory arguments can also be fallacious. Prosodic features (e.g., word emphasis, pause) may contribute to making an auditory ... Read More
(2020) "L’information implicite entre économie d'effort et esquive du jugement critique" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, Viviana Masia
The implicit transmission of contents in a message is one of the most effective means of persuasive communication. In both commercial and political propaganda, discursive strategies such as presuppositions, implicatures and topicalisations (which we propose to recast as implicit communicative devices) are frequently used. This ... Read More
(2020) "Knowledge and the epistemic function of argumentation – Comment on Gascón's "Where are dissent and reasons in epistemic justification?" by Christoph Lumer
José Ángel Gascón’s essay “Where are dissent and reasons in epistemic justification?” is an exposition of a version of a social functionalist epistemology. I agree with Gascón’s emphasis on reasons and on taking into account dissent as important parts of epistemology. ... Read More
(2020) "Institutionalized argumentative reasonableness – Commentary on Reijven." by Jean H.M. Wagemans
Menno Reijven in his paper entitled “Institutional and Institutionalized Fallacies: Diversifying Pragma-Dialectical Fallacy Judgments” positions himself in the debate about fallacy judgments, esp. in the situation where contextual issues play a role. His proposal is a very interesting one, because it seems to solve the ... Read More
(2020) "Implicit argumentation and persuasion: A measuring model" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri; Laura Baranzini, Doriana Cimmino, Federica Cominetti, Claudia Coppola and Giorgia Mannaioli
The paper provides evidence that linguistic strategies based on the implicit encoding of information are effective means of deceptive argumentation and manipulation, as they can ease the acceptance of doubtful arguments by distracting addressees’ attention and by encouraging shallow processing of doubtful contents. The persuasive ... Read More
(2020) "Implicit argumentation and persuasion A measuring model" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, Laura Baranzini, Doriana Cimmino, Federica Cominetti, Claudia Coppola, Giorgia Mannaioli
The paper provides evidence that linguistic strategies based on the implicit encoding of information are effective means of deceptive argumentation and manipulation, as they can ease the acceptance of doubtful arguments by distracting addressees’ attention and by encouraging shallow processing of doubtful contents. The persuasive ... Read More
(2020) "IMPAQTS: un corpus di discorsi politici italiani annotato per gli impliciti linguistici" by Federica Cominetti, Lorenzo Gregori, Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, Alessandro Panunzi
Il contributo presenta il corpus multimodale di discorsi politici italiani IMPAQTS e lo schema di annotazione pragmatica ad esso applicato. Il corpus è costruito per essere rappresentativo del linguaggio politico della Repubblica italiana: nel contributo se ne descrivono i criteri di bilanciamento e i metadati. Il ... Read More
(2020) "How to report on elections? The effects of game, issue and negative coverage on reader engagement and incivility" by João Gonçalves, Sara Pereira, Marisa Torres da Silva
This study investigates to what extent specific features of news articles about election campaigns impact reader engagement and civility in news comments. Using content analysis of articles (N = 830) and comments (N = 29,421) published during the 2015 Portuguese Legislative elections, we test the impact of negative coverage, issue ... Read More
(2020) "How a lack of truthfulness can undermine democratic representation: The case of post-referendum Brexit discourses" by Sten Hansson, Sandra Kröger
This article draws attention to how the ethics of democratic representation operates as a discreet factor in a crisis of representation afflicting Western democracies by identifying the ways a disregard for truthfulness can harm democratic representation. We argue that such a disregard undermines democratic representation ... Read More
(2020) "From fact-checking to rhetoric-checking: Extending methods for evaluating populist discourse" by Plug, H.J. & Wagemans, J.H.M.
One of the existing methods for assessing populist discourse is by fact-checking. This practice, however, is limited in scope in that it only assesses the truth of an isolated statement of fact. In order to enlarge the existing repertoire for critically responding to populist discourse, ... Read More
(2020) "Formal modeling of human reasoning: errors, limitations and Baconian bees" by Mariusz Urbanski
Since the end of the XX century we are witnessing a practical, or cognitive, turn in logic. Drawing on enormous achievements brought about by the mathematical turn that started more than a hundred years ago, logic now has came back to its Artistotelian roots as ... Read More
(2020) "Evaluative and Metalinguistic Dispute" by Andrés Soria-Ruiz
Recently, the hypothesis that purely evaluative disputes are metalinguistic negotiations has gained traction. The purpose of this paper is to resist a strong version of that hypothesis, and defend that some of those disputes are not metalinguistic negotiations. To defend that claim, I argue that ... Read More
(2020) "Dal conflitto al dialogo. Un approccio comunicativo alla mediazione" by Sara Greco
Il disaccordo fa parte della vita quotidiana, delle organizzazioni, delle imprese, delle famiglie, della politica. L’alternativa all’escalation del conflitto è il dialogo, volto a percorrere la via della comprensione poiché la pace non è l’assenza di disaccordo, ma la sua gestione fondata sull’ascolto ... Read More
(2020) "Beyond the co-production of technology and society: The discursive treatment of technology with regard to near-term and long-term environmental goals." by Üzelgün, M. A., & Pereira, J. R.
The co-production of technology and society is today a widely accepted notion. On the other hand, there is arguably a puzzle or “paradox” of technology where the means par excellence to higher-level (e.g., socio-environmental) goals, comes into view as an end in itself. We ... Read More
(2020) "Automated Argument Analysis – Comment on: Mizrahi & Dickinson: "Argumentation in Philosophical Practice: An Empirical Study" by Christoph Lumer
The paper critically discusses an empirical study by Mizrahi & Dickinson 2020, which analyzes in a huge data base (JSTORE) the incidence of three types of philosophical arguments. Their results are: 1. Deductive arguments were the most commeon type of argument in philosophy until the end of ... Read More
(2020) "Auditory Arguments - Importance of Sound in an Argumentative Discourse (An Empirical Study)" by Gabrijela Kišiček
Following up on several previous research (Groarke & Kišiček, 2018 ; Van den Hoven & Kišiček, 2017 ; Kišiček, 2016) this paper extends the study on the importance of sound in a multimodal argumentative discourse. Earlier work argued that sound (both human and non-human) ... Read More
(2020) "Arguments from Expert Opinion – An Epistemological Approach", by Christoph Lumer
in Reason to Dissent. Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation [Groningen 2019] Read More
(2020) "Arguments from Expert Opinion – An Epistemological Approach" by Christoph Lumer
In times of populist mistrust towards experts, it is important and the aim of the paper to ascertain the rationality of arguments from expert opinion and to reconstruct their rational foundations as well as to determine their limits. The foundational approach chosen is probabilistic. However, ... Read More
(2020) "Argumentative Use and Strategic Function of the Expression ‘Not for Nothing’" by Henrike Jansen, Francisca Snoeck Henkemans
In English discourse one can find cases of the expression ‘not for nothing’ being used in argumentation. The expression can occur both in the argument and in the standpoint. In this chapter we analyse the argumentative and rhetorical aspects of ‘not for nothing’ by regarding ... Read More
(2020) "Architecture of social protection regarding youth unemployment in Albania" by Xhumari Merita
(2020) “Architecture of social protection regarding youth unemployment in Albania” by Xhumari Merita chapter in a book Social Exclusion and Labour Market Challenges in the Western Balkans ISBN 10:1-5275-4969-0 Read More
(2020) "Any #JesuisIraq planned? Claiming affective displays for forgotten places" by Barbara De Cock and Andrea Pizarro Pedraza
The stem #jesuis followed by a toponym (e.g. #jesuisParis) has proved to be very productive in the gathering of affective publics (Papacharissi 2015) around causes of mourning, after terrorist attacks and other disasters. However, not all attacks have given rise to such massive affective use ... Read More
(2020) "Annotation with Adpositional Argumentation: Guidelines for building a Gold Standard Corpus of argumentative discourse" by Gobbo, F., Benini, M. & Wagemans, J.H.M.
This paper explains Adpositional Argumentation (AdArg), a new method for annotating arguments expressed in natural language. In describing this method, it provides the guidelines for designing a Gold Standard Corpus (GSC) of argumentative discourse in terms of so-called argumentative adpositional trees (arg-adtrees). The theoretical starting ... Read More
(2020) "Annotating argument schemes" by Visser, J., Lawrence, J., Reed, C., Wagemans, J.H.M. & Walton, D.
Argument schemes are abstractions substantiating the inferential connection betweenpremise(s) and conclusion in argumentative communication. Identifying such con-ventional patterns of reasoning is essential to the interpretation and evaluation ofargumentation. Whether studying argumentation from a theory-driven or data-drivenperspective, insight into the actual use of argumentation in ... Read More
(2020) "An argumentative reconstruction of the computer metaphor of the brain" by Finsen, A.B., Steen, G.J. & Wagemans, J.H.M.
The computer metaphor of the brain is frequently criticized by scientists and philosophers outside the computational paradigm. Proponents of the metaphor may then seek to defend its explanatory merits, in which case the metaphor functions as a standpoint. Insofar as previous research in argumentation theory ... Read More
(2020) "All We Need Is Trust: How the COVID-19 Outbreak Reconfigured Trust in Italian Public Institutions" by Fabio Paglieri (co-author))
“All We Need Is Trust: How the COVID-19 Outbreak Reconfigured Trust in Italian Public Institutions” by Rino Falcone, Elisa Colì, Silvia Felletti, Alessandro Sapienza, Cristiano Castelfranchi and Fabio Paglieri has been published in Frontiers in Psychology, Vol.11 (2020) Abstract The central focus of this research is ... Read More
(2020) "A Theory of Philosophical Arguments" by Christoph Lumer
In this article, a new, idealizing-hermeneutic methodological approach to developing a theory of philosophical arguments is presented and carried out. The basis for this is a theory of ideal philosophical theory types developed from the analysis of historical examples. According to this theory, the following ... Read More
(2020) "“The people want it” Analysis and evaluation of the populist argument in the context of deliberation" by Henrike Jansen
This article reflects on the reasonableness of populist arguments supporting a prescriptive standpoint in the context of deliberation (which I call ‘deliberative’ populist arguments). A literature survey shows a divide between authors who claim that populist arguments are always fallacious and those who think that ... Read More
(2020) "'Find Out' - A New Method to Study Abductive Reasoning in Empirical Research" by Dorota Zelechowska, Natalia Zyluk, Mariusz Urbanski
This article presents a new tool that provides a methodological context to observe and analyze, both qualitatively and quantitatively, manifestations of abductive reasoning in empirical research. Abduction is a form of a complex reasoning carried out to make sense of surprising or ambiguous phenomena or ... Read More
(2019) “Environmental Argumentation”, special issue of the Journal of Argumentation in Context 8:1 (2019), edited by Marcin Lewiński and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün
“Environmental Argumentation”, special issue of the Journal of Argumentation in Context 8:1 (2019), edited by the APPLY Action members Marcin Lewiński and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün has been published. The authors in this special issue investigate the challenging context of environmental argumentation. This context is first ... Read More
(2019) "Why we should come off the fence when experts disagree" by Wagemans, J.H.M.
Martin Hinton in “Why the Fence Is the Seat of Reason When Experts Disagree” (2019)discusses the use of the theory of argument schemes and their associated critical questions in the situation when experts disagree about a certain matter. In this commentary, I shall focus on ... Read More
(2019) "Un enfoque cognitivo hacia el análisis del discurso: el caso de los informes de Derechos Humanos en Chile" by Barbara De Cock, Daniel Michaud Maturana, Marcela Alejandra Ruiz Zúñiga
Mediante el análisis discursivo de informes sobre los Derechos Humanos en Chile producidos en diferentes momentos históricos, mostramos cómo los hallazgos de la lingüística cognitiva pueden contribuir a la comprensión de fenómenos sociales. Concretamente, analizamos tres aspectos discursivos: (i) ... Read More
(2019) "The scaremongering fallacy of fallacy theory: how to improve reasoning without fear of error" by Fabio Paglieri
“The scaremongering fallacy of fallacy theory: how to improve reasoning without fear of error” by Fabio Paglieri has been published in the book: D. Gabbay, L. Magnani, W. Park, & A. V. Pietarinen (eds.), Natural arguments: a tribute to John Woods (pp. 79-101). London: College ... Read More
(2019) "Sophistical heritage in contemporary teaching of rhetoric" by Gabrijela Kišiček
Cilj ovog rada jest dati pregled osnovnih načela sofističkog podučavanja retorike u 5. stoljeću prije Krista i usporediti ih sa suvremenim postulatima retoričke poduke. Tijekom povijesti sofisti su vrlo često bili kritizirani i smatraju se odgovorima za negativne konotacije koje retorika ... Read More
(2019) "Sfruttamento di “immagini” implicite nella pubblicità e nella propaganda politica italiana" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri
Commercials and political propaganda habitually encode implicitly contents that, if expressed explicitly, would be rejected. Sounds can suggest images or contents independently from lexical meanings. Foreign languages can engender impressions of refinement and prestige. More generally, implicits characterize persuasive communication, which typically draws attention to ... Read More
(2019) "Regular Letters-Writers: Meanings and Perceptions of Public Debate" by Marisa Torres da Silva
Letters to the editor and online comments constitute two of the most recognized public forums where readers work out current events and issues of common concern. But unlike the correspondence section, online comments are attached to the original story and may also imply a different ... Read More
(2019) "Recognizing Argument Types and Adding Missing Reasons" by Christoph Lumer
The article develops and justifies, on the basis of the epistemological argumentation theory, two central pieces of the theory of evaluative argumentation interpretation: 1. criteria for recognizing argument types and 2. rules for adding reasons to create ideal arguments. Ad 1: The criteria for identifying argument types are ... Read More
(2019) "La lingua disonesta. Contenuti impliciti e strategie di persuasione" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri
Introduzione. Mercato, democrazia, propaganda e potere di sceltaI. I mezzi persuasivi della pubblicità e della propaganda 1. Le immagini e i suoni non linguistici sono più convincenti delle parole 2. Pubblicità e contenuti impliciti II. Gli impliciti linguistici del contenuto 1. L’onomatopea e il fonosimbolismo: evocare sensazioni 2. ... Read More
(2019) "L’information implicite entre économie d’effort et esquive du jugement critique" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri & Viviana Masia
The implicit transmission of contents in a message is one of the most effective means of persuasive communication. In both commercial and political propaganda, discursive strategies such as presuppositions, implicatures and topicalisations (which we propose to recast as implicit communicative devices) are frequently used. This ... Read More
(2019) "Inference in Argumentation: A Topics-Based Approach to Argument Schemes" by Eddo Rigotti, Sara Greco
Provides an in-depth analysis of argumentation in context as offered by the Argumentum Model of Topics (AMT) Offers an innovative historical reconstruction and re-interpretation of many aspects of Aristotle and Cicero Presents a comprehensive and contemporary overview of the tradition of studies on topics, including ... Read More
(2019) "Four basic argument forms" by Wagemans, J.H.M.
This paper provides a theoretical rationale for distinguishing four basic argument forms. Onthe basis of a survey of classical and contemporary definitions of argument, a set ofassumptions is formulated regarding the linguistic and pragmatic aspects of arguments. It isdemonstrated how these assumptions yield four different ... Read More
(2019) "Een pragma-dialectische reconstructie van de discussiebijdragen van arts en patiënt in ‘shared decision-making’." by Snoeck Henkemans, A.F. & Wagemans, J.H.M.
Medical consultation nowadays generally proceeds in accordance with the process of shared decision-making (SDM). In the literature on medical communication, the general characteristics of this process seem to be agreed upon. With respect to the specific division of labour between doctor and patient, however, different ... Read More
(2019) "Deontic power and institutional contexts: The impact of institutional design on deliberation and decision-making in the UK fracking debate." by Isabela Fairclough
In this article I study the constraints and opportunities available to decision-makers in an institutional context (a county council), by analyzing the deliberative process that led to the rejection of an application for exploratory fracking. Drawing on a corpus of 130,000 words, I intend to develop ... Read More
(2019) "Building argumentative adpositional trees: Towards a high precision method for reconstructing arguments in natural language" by Gobbo, F. & Wagemans, J.H.M.
There is a need for a tool for reconstructing arguments that describes their linguistic elements with high precision and at the same time identifies their type. In this paper, we prepare the ground for developing such a tool by introducing the notion of ‘argumentative adpositional ... Read More
(2019) "An annotated corpus of argument schemes in US election debates" by Visser, J., Lawrence, J., Wagemans, J.H.M. & Reed, C.A.
The US2016-SCHEMES corpus comprises transcripts of television debates leading up to the 2016 US presidential elections, combined with associated reactions on the Reddit social media platform. The full corpus (97,999 words) is annotated with the argumentative relations of inference, conflict and rephrase, and their illocutionary anchoring ... Read More
(2019) "Adpositional Argumentation (AdARg): A new method for representing linguistic and pragmatic information about argumentative discourse" by Gobbo, F. & Wagemans, J.H.M.
Cet article décrit et illustre l’utilisation de Adpositional Argumentation (AdArg), une méthode formelle nouvelle qui permet à l’analyste du discours argumentatif de représen-ter des informations linguistiques et pragmatiques de ma-nière très détaillée et quand même flexible. ... Read More
(2019) "A pragma-dialectical reconstruction of medical Shared Decision-Making (SDM)" by Snoeck Henkemans, A.F. & Wagemans, J.H.M.
In this paper we approach medical Shared Decision-Making (SDM) from the perspective of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation. We develop an analytical tool for reconstructing the contributions of doctor and patient to the decision-making process, taking into account both the general characteristics of SDM and ... Read More
(2019) "A method for reconstructing first-order arguments in natural language" by Gobbo, F. & Wagemans, J.H.M.
This paper develops a new method for reconstructing arguments in natural language by combining the linguistic representation framework of Constructive Adpositional Grammars (CxAdGrams) with the argument classification framework of the Periodic Table of Arguments (PTA). The method centers around the notion of ‘argumentative adpositional adtree’ (‘... Read More
(2018) "La comunicazione della nuova élite politica: novità e continuità" by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, Veronica Bagaglini
The language of new political élites has often been described as characterized by a preference for a sub-standard variety of language, full of vulgarisms and “swear words”. In this contribution the authors propose two innovative ways to investigate it: in the first section, through a ... Read More