Phd honoris causa to Frans van Eemeren

Frans van Eemeren has received a PhD honoris causa from the Università della Svizzera italiana (also known as "University of Lugano"). The ceremony was held on April 17, 2010, during the last Dies Academicus.

Here is the motivation and some photos.

Congratulations! It is a great joy for the whole community of argumentation scholars

Staldac 2010, photos

Space and Time across Languages, Disciplines and Cultures

STALDAC 2010: Space and Time across Languages, Disciplines and Cultures
April 8-10, 2010, University of Cambridge, UK
http://www.cilr.cam.ac.uk/staldac/index.html

The complete programme is available here. Different papers are relevant to linguistic and argumentative analysis

Argumentation in international movements (migration tourism...)

...The conference Enter2010 (http://www.enter2010.org/) is just completed! This has given us the occasion to reflect on the impact of argumentation on international movements (tourism, migration...) involving intercultural exchanges and discussions.

See in particular Silvia de Ascaniis's paper (Visualizing and mapping argumentation in the tourism field). Short papers will be published soon here

To be continued...

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(photos of the conference available on Flickr. The youngest participant was my son)

Argumentative Processes and Communication Contexts

Argumentative Processes

and Communication Contexts

A new issue of Studies in Communication Sciences is now available

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Guest editors: Eddo Rigotti and Sara Greco Morasso

Link to full papers: http://www.scoms.ch/current_issue/fullpapers.asp
Link to book and article reviews: http://www.scoms.ch/current_issue/reviews.asp