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please have a look to our website! There are some news about our next courses.
Sara

Argumentation and Education: NEW BOOK

Argumentation and Education: Theoretical Foundations and Practices

Muller Mirza, Nathalie; Perret-Clermont, Anne-Nelly (Eds.)

New York: Springer, 2009, VI, 237 p. 25 illus., HardcoverISBN: 978-0-387-98124-6

During the last decade, argumentation has attracted growing attention as a means to elicit processes (linguistic, logical, dialogical, psychological, etc.) that can sustain or provoke reasoning and learning. Constituting an important dimension of daily life and of professional activities, argumentation plays a special role in democracies and is at the heart of philosophical reasoning and scientific inquiry. Argumentation, as such, requires specific intellectual and social skills. Hence, argumentation will have an increasing importance in education, both because it is a critical competence that has to be learned, and because argumentation can be used to foster learning in philosophy, history, sciences and in many other domains. Argumentation and Education answers these and other questions by providing both theoretical backgrounds, in psychology, education and theory of argumentation, and concrete examples of experiments and results in school contexts in a range of domains. It reports on existing innovative practices in education settings at various levels.... more on http://springer.com/978-0-387-98124-6

Table of contents

Introduction, Nathalie Muller Mirza and Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont

Part I. Theoretical Foundations

• Argumentation as an Object of Interest and as a Social and Cultural Resource, Eddo Rigotti and Sara Greco Morasso
• Psychosocial Processes in Argumentation, Nathalie Muller Mirza, Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, Valerie Tartas, and Antonio Iannaccone
• Argumentation and Learning, Baruch B. Schwarz
• Argumentative Interactions and the Social Construction of Knowledge, Michael Baker
• Argumentative Design, Jerry E. B. Andriessen and Baruch B. Schwarz

Part II. Practices

• Developing Argumentation: Lessons Learned in the Primary School, Neil Mercer
• Argumentation in Higher Education: Examples of Actual Practices with Argumentation Tools, Jerry E. B. Andriessen
• The Argumentum Experience, Sara Greco Morasso

Argumentation in context

The first volume of the series "Argumentation in context" published by John Benjamins has just appeared: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=AIC

Examining Argumentation in Context: Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering

By F. H. van Eemeren and B. Garssen (eds.).

contains a selection of papers on strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse. Starting point of all of these contributions is that a satisfactory analysis and evaluation of strategic maneuvering is possible only if the argumentative discourse is first situated in the communicative and interactional context in which it occurs. While some of the contributions present general views with regard to strategic maneuvering, other contributions report on the results of empirical studies, examine strategic maneuvering in a particular legal or political context, or highlight the presentational design of strategic maneuvering. Examining Argumentation in Context therefore provides an insightful view of recent developments in the research on strategic maneuvering, which is currently prominent in the study of argumentation.

Photos - Lausanne June 2009

Dear friends, you can find some photos of the last Argupolis course(Lausanne, Crêt-Bérard) at www.flickr.com/photos/argupolis. See you...

New publication - GLOBAL LINGUISTICS

A new volume on intercultural communication with some interesting insights on argumentation in the delicate context of intercultural relationships:

Danesi, Marcel / Rocci, Andrea

Global Linguistics: An Introduction (2009)

ISBN 978-3-11-021406-2 Series: Mouton Textbook
MOUTON DE GRUYTER
http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?isbn=978-3-11-021406-2

About this Title (from Mouton De Gruyter's website):
The book provides an introduction to an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that can be called “global linguistics” (GL). GL emerges to tackle the ever-growing phenomenon of intercultural communication (IC) in today’s world of international contacts. The specific aim of GL is to look at the form and contents of dialogues among speakers of different cultural backgrounds who will use a “default language” or koiné (usually English) to interact, in order to detect communication breakdowns at various levels of “depth,” as well as the opportunities for developing sound intercultural communication practice. The book includes an accessible presentation of fundamental questions concerning languages and language use. Among the questions addressed are the universal design features of languages, the connection between language and conceptual systems, how people use language to coordinate their actions and interact in a variety of social contexts, and the place of language in a semiotic view of culture. The volume also addresses how language, context and culture shape the way in which we argue a point and try to persuade other people, and why intercultural argumentation is both necessary and risky.Global Linguistics: An Introduction describes fundamental notions in linguistics and cognate fields and is thus well-suited for use as a textbook in courses dealing with IC in general. At the same time, the book is of general interest to scholars in linguistics and communication studies, as it places particular emphasis on theoretical models such as argumentation theory and conceptual metaphor theory, which are generally not presented in textbooks on language and IC.

May 8, 2009: Amsterdam – Lugano Colloquium Argumentation in Context

09.00: speaker 1 Rigotti & Schulz
09.30: speaker 2 Rocci
10.00: speaker 3 Filimon

10.30: coffee

11.00: speaker 4 Feteris
11.30: speaker 5 Ihnen
12.00: speaker 6 Plug

12.30: lunch

13.30: speaker 7 Pilgram
14.00: speaker 8 Van Poppel

14.30: tea

15.00: speaker 9 Christopher-Guerra
15.30: speaker 10 Palmieri

16.00: tea

Next Argupolis course - June 2009

It is already online at http://www.argupolis.net/ information about the next Argupolis course in June (Lausanne, Switzerland).

See you...

Photos - Krabbe's course

Hi everybody...

Now featuring in Lugano...

...Today at 14 the course "Logic and Formal Dialectic" held by Prof. Erik Krabbe will start in Lugano. PhD students from Lugano (Rudi Palmieri, Sabine Christopher-Guerra, Antonio Bova, Camilla Palmieri, Agatha Filimon, Marcio Monteiro, Gergana Zlatkova, Silvia De Ascaniis), Lausanne (Julien Grand), Amsterdam (Constanza Ihnen, Roosemary Pilgram, Lotte van Poppel) and Neuchâtel (Steve Oswald, Loise Bilat) will participate in the course.

Call for papers - Argumentative processes and communication contexts

Call for Papers
Studies in Communication Sciences – An International Journal
Thematic Section on:
Argumentative processes and communication contexts

Guest Editors: Eddo Rigotti and Sara Greco Morasso, Università della Svizzera italiana, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Switzerland

The relevance of the role played by argumentation in shaping the communicative practices occurring in different contexts and activity types is increasingly acknowledged. Argumentation is rooted in the contexts in which it takes place and is significantly determined by them: from social and political institutions to media discourse and journalism, from social and ethical debate to the economic and financial sphere, from health communication to the various domains of interpersonal interactions.
More specifically, argumentation, insofar as it fosters a reasonable management of disagreement and a critical attitude in the solution of conflicts of opinion and of interest, significantly conditions the quality of decision-making and of the building of consent in the communicative activities carried out in these contexts.
A thorough study of argumentative processes in different communication contexts cannot originate but from an interdisciplinary effort connecting the awareness of the proper dynamics of specific communication contexts with theoretical knowledge of the argumentative processes. Consequently, the thematic section of this issue of Studies in Communication Sciences intends to bring together two categories of researchers. The first, dealing with the structure and dynamics of a specific communication context and perceiving the significance of argumentation within this context, aims at adequately defining the role of argumentative processes. The second category, mainly concerned with argumentative strategies, intends to verify how such strategies are molded on and influenced by the communication context to which they are applied.

Article Format and Topics:
Articles in the special issue can have a length of up to 10 pages (2300 characters, with spaces, per page), including abstract, footnotes and references. Contributions can be in English, Italian, French or German. Each author receives 25 free bound reprints of his or her article. The list of possible communication contexts in which argumentative processes can be analyzed includes (but is not limited to):
• Public communication and political discourse
• Communication practices in different mass-media and new-media platforms (newspapers, internet discussions tools, newsgroups, etc.)
• Controversies in scientific communication
• Social debate
• Economic and financial discourse
• Interpersonal communication in different institutional environments (family, school, and others)
• Other significant communication contexts

Key Dates:
• Submission of Articles: August 20th, 2009
• Feedback from Reviewers: October 10th, 2009
• Final Version due: October 31st, 2009
• Publication of the Journal: December 2009

Contact Information:
For questions about the contents, please contact: eddo.rigotti@lu.unisi.ch or sara.greco@lu.unisi.ch
To submit your paper: info@scoms.ch
The Journal’s website (incl. notes for contributors) can be found at: www.scoms.ch