Readers of RAIL might remember this chestnut from two years ago on infographics and visual argument. That post featured a TED talk by David McCandless. Though I’m tempted, I’ll refuse to commit the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy here and simply report that McCandless’s website, Information is Beautiful, now features a very nice-looking infographic [...]
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David McCandless Fallacies Infographic
Posted in Discussion, Fallacies, tagged Argumentation, David McCandless, fallacies, infographics, Informal Logic, Rhetoric on April 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
CFP: Thinking and Speaking a Better World
Posted in CFP, tagged Argumentation, crtical thinking, debate, pedagogy, Rhetoric on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
THINKING AND SPEAKING A BETTER WORLD Fourth International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment 11-13 January 2013, Doha, Qatar Qatar National Convention Center Organized by QatarDebate Center Affiliate organizations: -World Debate Institute, University of Vermont, USA -Za in Proti Institute for a Culture of Dialogue, Slovenia -International Society for the Study [...]
NCA Call for Proposals
Posted in CFP, tagged Argumentation, discourse studies, grant proposals in communication, humanties grants, NCA, Rhetoric on March 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Request for Proposals The National Communication Association requests proposals for projects and events that will advance the discipline of communication. While there are many funding outlets for communication scholars to seek support for academic disciplinary research, NCA is uniquely positioned to support work that is focused on the discipline itself. All funded activities should align [...]
CFP: OSSA 2013: Virtues of Argumentation
Posted in CFP, tagged Argumentation, C. Thomas Goodnight, calls for papers, Dan Cohen, Informal Logic, Marianne Doury, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, OSSA 2013, Rhetoric on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Call for Proposals Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA) VIRTUES of ARGUMENTATION May 22-25, 2013 University of Windsor Keynote speakers: Daniel H. Cohen, Department of Philosophy, Colby College Marianne Doury, Communication & Politics, CNRS – Paris G. Thomas Goodnight, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California The OSSA Organizing Committee invites proposals [...]
GTR 2012: First International Workshop on Argumentation & Rhetoric in Public Discourse, Language, & Law
Posted in Seminar, tagged Adelino Cattani, Argumentation, Bice Mortara Garavelli, CERMEG, Christian Plantain, Frans van Eemeren, GTR 2012, legal argumentation, legal methodology, legal studies, linguistics, public discourse, Rhetoric on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The organizers wish to announce the 12th Annual Conference on Rhetoric «Giornate Tridentine di Retorica 12 – GTR 2012», as the First International Workshop on «Argumentation & Rhetoric (in Public Discourse, in Language, in Law)». The Workshop, sponsored by CERMEG (Research Centre on Legal Methodology), will be held 7-8 June 2012 at the University of [...]
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 [...]
Trolls
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Fallacies, Rhetoric, tagged fallacies, internet, internet culture, internet etiquette, netiquette, Rhetoric, trolls on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The increasing popularity of on-line discussions has given rise to an argumentative neologism that may be more widely applicable: “trolls.” Trolls commit an inappropriate move in an argument, saying something unreasonable that derails the discussion. (I recall analogously in my highschool biology class we learned to ask the teacher, Mr. Houghton, about living through the [...]
CFP: 2013 Biennial ISHR Meeting in Chicago
Posted in CFP, Rhetoric, tagged art, cultural context., geographic areas, International Society for the History of Rhetoric, ISHR 2013, literary theory and criticism, philosophy, poetics, politics, religion, Rhetoric, rhetoric conferences on December 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
CALL FOR PAPERS The Nineteenth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR) will be held in Chicago, USA, from Wednesday, July 24 to Saturday, July 27, 2013. The Biennial Conference of ISHR brings together several hundred specialists in the history of rhetoric from around thirty countries. SCHOLARLY FOCUS OF THE [...]
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 [...]
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