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  • Special Issue on Douglas Walton’s Work

    2020-04-23


    We are pleased to announce that Informal Logic will publish a Special Issue dedicated to papers engaging Doug Walton’s work. And we are fur-ther pleased to announce that the issue will be guest edited by Fabrizio Macagno and Alice Toniolo, two established scholars who are well ac-quainted with Walton’s work in all its dimensions. We thus issue a call for papers, inviting contributions fully devoted to the exploration, analy-sis, and development of different aspects of Professor Walton’s work.
    Papers should be submitted to either of the guest editors ([email protected]; [email protected]) or through the journal (specifying that they are intended for the Special Issue). The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2020. Queries should be directed to the guest editors.

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  • Call for Papers: ARGUMENTATION AND SPEECH ACTS

    2020-04-16

    Argumentation theorists find it natural to speak of acts of arguing and speech-acts of arguing. An account of argumentation as a speech-act is meant to be of help, if not fundamental, for the analysis and appraisal of argumentative discourse and dialogue, which is argumentation theory’s main goal. Besides, as van Eemeren and Grootendorst (1984) pointed out, characterizing argumentation as a speech-act enables us to make sense of it as conducive to certain perlocutionary effects, such as persuading an addressee or audience or resolving a difference of opinion. However, that argumentation is a type of illocution is far from mainstream and linguistic pragmatics has not devoted much effort to this question. This workshop aims to bridge the gap between linguistic pragmatics and argumentation theory in order to highlight questions such as the following:

    - What types of speech-acts are characteristic of argumentative discourse and dialogue?

    - Is the activity of providing or using arguments a type of illocution?

    - Is there anything like a speech-act of arguing? Which are its features, if at all?

    - What type of speech-acts are acts of adducing and acts of concluding, if at all?

    - What is the pragmatics of epistemic modals? Do they mark acts of concluding?

    - How do acts of adducing and concluding embed into argumentative texts?

    - What features determine that a piece of text is argumentative or narrative or else?

    - What is the role of non-literal uses of language in argumentation?

    - Can narratives and fiction contain proper argumentation?

    - Are there non-verbal acts of arguing? How should we deal with their interpretation and evaluation?

    - How does non-verbal communication interact with verbal acts of arguing?

    Call for abstracts:

    Papers addressing the issues mentioned above or others also relevant to the main aim of the monographic issue are welcome. Full papers ready for blind refereeing (max. 7500 words, excluding references) should be sent to either [email protected] or [email protected] by September 27th (Extended call: October 31.)

     

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