Frans van Eemeren, world renowned researcher gives talk on argumentation, rhetoric and dialectic
Tid: 16.4.2009 12.15 - 16.4.2009 14.00
Sted: Lite Auditorium, Lauritz Meltzers hus (the Social Science Building at Fosswinckelsgate 6).
Frans H. van Eemeren
Institutt for informasjons- og medievitenskap og Retorikkprogrammet har sammen klart å få verdens kanskje mest ledende argumentasjonsforsker til Bergen.
16. april vil Frans van Eemeren gi en gjesteforelesning om argumentation, retorikk og dialektikk. Er du interessert i argumentasjon bør du få dette med deg.
The world renowned researcher Frans van Eemeren from University of Amsterdam will visit Bergen and talk about: "Fallacies as derailments of strategic manoeuvring: Reconnecting dialectic and rhetoric"
Frans H. van Eemeren is Professor of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric at the University of Amsterdam. Frans van Eemeren and Rob Grootendorst (1944-2000) are the founders of the influential pragma-dialectical argumentation theory. This theory systematically combines normative insights from philosophical dialectics and dialogue logic with pragmatic insights from speech act theory, Gricean theory and discourse analysis. The pragma-dialectical theory is applied in the analysis, evaluation and production of oral and written argumentative discourse.
Frans van Eemeren is (co-)author of some fifty book publications. Among them are Speech Acts in Argumentative Discussions (Foris/De Gruyter, 1984), Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1992), Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse (University of Alabama Press, 1993), Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996), A Systematic Theory of Argumentation (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and Argumentative Indicators in Discourse (Springer Academic, 2007). Currently he is completing a monograph based on his work with Peter Houtlosser (1956-2008), Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse, which proposes an integration of rhetorical insights in the pragma-dialectical method for reconstructing and evaluating argumentative discourse.
The visit and talk by van Eemeren talk is kindly sponsored by Department of Information Science and Media studies and the Rhetoric Programme (University of Bergen).