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CFP: Creating Publics, Creating Democracies

Posted in CFP, tagged , , , , , , , on January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Status: CfP Call for papers Conference Creating Publics, Creating Democracies 18.06.12-19.06.12 University of Westminster, London, UK That there is a relationship between publicness and democracy has often been taken for granted. However, at this time of widespread instability, political upheaval and experimentation, when publics are increasingly being called upon to act, it is sometimes in [...]

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CFP: NORDISCO 2012

Posted in CFP, tagged , , , , , on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The 2nd Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction, NORDISCO 2012  will be held 21.11.12-23.11.12 at Linköping University, Sweden. First call for papers: Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 March 2012 – After its initial successes in Aalborg, Denmark, in November 2010, NORDISCO is emerging as a biennial event, whose goal is to create a Nordic [...]

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On Being Your Own Argument

Posted in Connections, News, Rhetoric, tagged , , , , , , , on November 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Let’s be honest about this, coverage of the Occupy movement has neither been fair nor balanced in most cases.  What coverage there has been has usually centered on 1) how much of a mess these sites are making, 2) on how the absence of explicit demands makes them “incoherent”, and 3) on how the major [...]

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International Colloquium: Argumentation in Political Deliberation

Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Pragma-dialectics, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, tagged , , , , , , on August 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

International Colloquium “Argumentation in Political Deliberation” ArgLab – IFL Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2 September 2011 Political deliberation, understood as a public debate aimed at forming political opinions and deciding what course of action to take, has traditionally been seen as a prime venue for public reasoning and [...]

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Call for Papers: CADAAD 2012

Posted in CFP, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The fourth international conference Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) will take place at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal, 4-6 July 2012. CADAAD conferences are intended to promote current directions and new developments in cross-disciplinary critical discourse research. We welcome papers dealing with any contemporary social, scientific, political, economic, or professional [...]

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The Validating Experience of Extremity: Esquire on Roger Ailes

Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rhetoric, tagged , , , , , , on January 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Tom Junod’s remarkable piece on Fox News mogul Roger Ailes in Esquire magazine is well worth your time anyway, but for rhetoricians and students of political argument it’s pure gold–a look inside the head of the man who is largely responsible for the shape of American political discourse. It’s a long article but it pays [...]

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