Dancing an Explanation
Some readers of RAIL may already with John Bohannon’s brilliant competition Dance your PhD. In the video below, given at a TED event in Brussels, Bohannon generalizes the point that Dance your PhD...
View ArticleBurden of proof and intellectual property
Do PIPA and SOPA threaten to reverse legal burden of proof in the US? Clay Shirky argues they do. I don’t know enough about the legal system, or the proposed legislation. However, this is a serious...
View ArticleCFP: 14th Conference of the International Pragmatics Association
26-31 July 2015, Antwerp, Belgium CALL FOR PANEL CONTRIBUTIONS Pragmatic insights for analysing multimodal argumentative discourse Panel organizers: Assimakis Tseronis, University of Amsterdam Chiara...
View ArticleCFP: Special Issue of Argumentation and Advocacy
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SPECIAL ISSUE ON TWENTY YEARS OF VISUAL ARGUMENT Argumentation and Advocacy invites submissions for a special anniversary issue on visual argument titled “Twenty Years of Visual...
View ArticleCFA: John Benjamins Volume on Multimodal Argumentation
VISUAL – MULTIMODAL ARGUMENTATION & RHETORIC: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (provisional title) Editors: Assimakis Tseronis (University of Amsterdam); Charles Forceville (University of Amsterdam) Taking...
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