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Psychology, Emotion, and the Human Sciences
Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Critical Thinking, Informal Logic, Rhetoric, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, tagged argument, Argumentation, argumentation conferences, political discourse, reasoning, University of Windsor, visual argumentation on March 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
CFP: Creating Publics, Creating Democracies
Posted in CFP, tagged democracies, democratic politics, political discourse, political theory, public space, public sphere, publics, Rhetoric 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 [...]
CFP: NORDISCO 2012
Posted in CFP, tagged applied linguistics, discourse analysis, nordic conferences, NORDISCO 2012, political discourse, Rhetoric 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 [...]
On Being Your Own Argument
Posted in Connections, News, Rhetoric, tagged occupy demands, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, political discourse, political rhetoric, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Citizenship 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 [...]
International Colloquium: Argumentation in Political Deliberation
Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Pragma-dialectics, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, tagged ArgLab, political argumentation, political deliberation, political discourse, political rhetoric, public sphere, strategic maneuvering 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 [...]
Call for Papers: CADAAD 2012
Posted in CFP, tagged argumentation conferences, CADAAD, call for papers, Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, critical theory, discourse analysis, functional linguistics, political discourse, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, University of Minho 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 [...]
The Validating Experience of Extremity: Esquire on Roger Ailes
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rhetoric, tagged Esquire Magazine, Fox News, political discourse, pundits, Rhetoric, Roger Ailes, television 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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