This position paper of Working Group 2 of the European Network for Argumentation and Public Polic... more This position paper of Working Group 2 of the European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis (COST Action CA17132; https://publicpolicyargument.eu) reviews goals and functions of public argumentation. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, the paper introduces basic distinctions and charts out options. It is meant to guide reflection on the conceptual basis for the Action’s subsequent research regarding the analysis, evaluation, and design of public argumentation.
Pour l’un comme pour l’autre*, écrire représentait – de la façonla plus aiguë – un moyen de se si... more Pour l’un comme pour l’autre*, écrire représentait – de la façonla plus aiguë – un moyen de se situer hors du temps.(* Il s’agit de Marcel Proust et de Raymond Roussel.)Michel Leiris, Lettre à Zette, 19 novembre 1939,in La Règle du jeu, p. 1296 Cette étude considère L’Espace littéraire de Maurice Blanchot comme une argumentation en faveur de l’idée que l’œuvre crée un espace, espace dont une caractéristique essentielle est celle d’arracher l’auteur, comme le lecteur, au temps quotidien, de le..
Argumentation as the public exchange of reasons is widely thought to enhance deliberative interac... more Argumentation as the public exchange of reasons is widely thought to enhance deliberative interactions that generate and justify reasonable public policies. Adopting an argumentation-theoretic perspective, we survey the norms that should govern public argumentation and address some of the complexities that scholarly treatments have identified. Our focus is on norms associated with the ideals of correctness and participation as sources of a politically legitimate deliberative outcome. In principle, both ideals are mutually coherent. If the information needed for a correct deliberative outcome is distributed among agents, then maximising participation increases information diversity. But both ideals can also be in tension. If participants lack competence or are prone to biases, a correct deliberative outcome requires limiting participation. The central question for public argumentation, therefore, is how to strike a balance between both ideals. Rather than advocating a preferred norma...
The argumentative technique of dissociation consists of redefining a term used in discourse in a ... more The argumentative technique of dissociation consists of redefining a term used in discourse in a particular communicative situation. This strategy may allow the speaker to use the emotional potential corresponding to certain specific terms or the emotional potential of real-life situations and events whether witnessed, reported or presented in fiction. With regard to the rhetorical situation(s) considered in the present study, the virtual audience may be reconstructed in the analysis as having access to three types of discourse: 1) official historiography, prone at times to highlight a nation's moments of glory; 2) various discourses, some of which emanate from historians, which highlight less familiar aspects (negative, and/or having little to do with heroism) of Romanian nation-building, or else voice scepticism concerning national identity or even contempt with respect to the Romanians' behaviour and/or their destiny; 3) reactions of a historian to such comments, in which...
Filologia modernă: realizări şi perspective în context european, Eugeniu Coșeriu: 100 de ani de la naștere. Limbajul ca sumă de valori, 2021
Limba română ca limbă străină este o disciplină academică a cărei predare în universități din lum... more Limba română ca limbă străină este o disciplină academică a cărei predare în universități din lume se asociază adesea cu studiul culturii române, fie ca discipline independente, fie în mod integrat. Din 2013 până în prezent, la Universitatea Johannes Gutenberg din Mainz (JGUM), disciplinele Limba română ca limbă străină și Introducere în cultura română se predau studenților din domeniul filologic și din orice facultate a universității sau din universități partenere ale JGUM la nivel de licență, master, doctorat și post-doc, inclusiv studenți Erasmus prin intermediul activităților organizate de Lectoratul Institutului Limbii Române la Mainz. În formarea competențelor lingvistice de română ale cursanților, sunt aplicate principii tradiționale și recente ale didacticii limbilor străine, ale pragma-lingvisticii vizându-se performanțe lingvistice ale cursanților de nivel A2, B1-B2, C1, în conformitate cu Cadrul european de referință pentru limbi (CECRL) precum și competențe specifice de ...
This position paper of Working Group 2 of the European Network for Argumentation and Public Polic... more This position paper of Working Group 2 of the European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis (COST Action CA17132; https://publicpolicyargument.eu) reviews goals and functions of public argumentation. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, the paper introduces basic distinctions and charts out options. It is meant to guide reflection on the conceptual basis for the Action’s subsequent research regarding the analysis, evaluation, and design of public argumentation.
This is a brief presentation of the methodology of a study in progress for identifying rhetorical... more This is a brief presentation of the methodology of a study in progress for identifying rhetorical strategies used in CSR reports having to deal with risk issues. It presents the conceptual approach of a study meant to analyze excerpts of CSR reports for 2012 of several US large companies. The analysis is rooted in discourse analysis and rhetorical theory. The focus of the study is the way in which the company addresses the stakeholders so as to argue implicitly in favor of the company’s preoccupation for risk prevention, elimination of various hazards, counter balancing negative consequences and effects of the company’s activity. The study discusses anticipates on possible findings to be later valued in the field of Business Ethics.
This paper provides limited but new details on the rhetoric of Chief Executive Officers’ letters ... more This paper provides limited but new details on the rhetoric of Chief Executive Officers’ letters to stakeholders. We analyze CEOs’ letters to which introduce Corporate Social Responsibility reports for 2012 of several US large companies. The analysis is rooted in discourse analysis, rhetoric, and the theory of argumentation. It yields significant results to be later valued in the field of Business Ethics.
In the framework of the extended pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, Corporate Social Res... more In the framework of the extended pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting is approached in this study as a particular communicative activity type, which can be reconstructed as part of a critical discussion. CSR reports excerpts are viewed in the analysis as parts of a virtual critical discussion in which a company acts as a protagonist maneuvering strategically to defend the standpoint according to which the business is operated ethically, and to convince the audience about what is mentioned in the standpoint. The reconstructed standpoint of a CSR report,We are doing business responsibly, may be regarded as stereotypical, since it corresponds to the institutional point of this regulated type of communicative activity. In the first part of the study, a brief overview is given of the CSR reporting activity, then the concept of strategic maneuvering is presented, under its three aspects (topical potential, audience demand, and present...
This position paper of Working Group 2 of the European Network for Argumentation and Public Polic... more This position paper of Working Group 2 of the European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis (COST Action CA17132; https://publicpolicyargument.eu) reviews goals and functions of public argumentation. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, the paper introduces basic distinctions and charts out options. It is meant to guide reflection on the conceptual basis for the Action's subsequent research regarding the analysis, evaluation, and design of public argumentation. Co-authors: Abreu, P., Nova University of Lisbon, Nova Institute of Philosophy, Lisbon, Portugal; Bengtsson, M., Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark; Castro, D, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Cooke, M., School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Ireland; Danka, I., Budapest University of Technology and Economics/John von Neumann University, Budapest/Kecskemet, Hungary; De Cock, B., Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Dutilh Novaes, C., Department of P...
Predarea, receptarea și evaluarea limbii române ca limbă străină. Actualitate și perspectivă. Ed. Ioana Jieanu, Loredana Netedu & Paul Nanu. Turku: Universitatea din Turku, Kieli- ja käännöstieteiden laitos., Oct 31, 2020
This study makes suggestions about using the Microsoft Teams platform, Office applications and t... more This study makes suggestions about using the Microsoft Teams platform, Office applications and the corresponding digital tools and facilities available in the academic setting from the methodologist’s and the language teacher’s perspective. The study is concerned with foreign language teaching and learning (FLTL, in this case Romanian) in a university setting in the framework of the European referential and standards for language proficiency. Two aspects have been identified as significant with respect to maintaining student and teacher motivation and to ensuring pedagogical success, as well as innovative integration of computer-assisted language learning tools in the pedagogical action. The former presents the integration of linguistic and pedagogical inputs into one single Microsoft Word document to be shared during the virtual class in order to ensure focus on various practices of communicative competence without digital interface change and to enhance retention of linguistic content. The latter approaches group work in various channels created within Microsoft Teams.
Cet article propose des réflexions personnelles à propos de quelques expressions à caractère plus... more Cet article propose des réflexions personnelles à propos de quelques expressions à caractère plus ou moins figé, qui ont pour contenu sémantique celui de fournir des précisions sur la source de l’information. Ces expressions couvrent le domaine des perceptions sensorielles. Les considérations qui les concernent traitent de leur fonctionnement stylistique, sémantique, pragmatique et rhétorique. À travers les commentaires proposés est aussi examinée la façon dont l’expression en question se construit au niveau lexical, afin d’explorer: a) la manière dont se constitue son sens; b) son agencement stylistique; c) la façon dont ces expressions contribuent aux efforts du locuteur d’obtenir l’adhésion de l’interlocuteur et/ou du public; d) son potentiel illocutoire et pragmatique. Ces remarques ont pour point de départ l’exposé au sujet du non–trope pléonasme fait par Pierre Fontanier dans "Les figures du discours" (1827-1830). Les expressions concernées par les commentaires qui s...
This position paper of Working Group 2 of the European Network for Argumentation and Public Polic... more This position paper of Working Group 2 of the European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis (COST Action CA17132; https://publicpolicyargument.eu) reviews goals and functions of public argumentation. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, the paper introduces basic distinctions and charts out options. It is meant to guide reflection on the conceptual basis for the Action’s subsequent research regarding the analysis, evaluation, and design of public argumentation.
Pour l’un comme pour l’autre*, écrire représentait – de la façonla plus aiguë – un moyen de se si... more Pour l’un comme pour l’autre*, écrire représentait – de la façonla plus aiguë – un moyen de se situer hors du temps.(* Il s’agit de Marcel Proust et de Raymond Roussel.)Michel Leiris, Lettre à Zette, 19 novembre 1939,in La Règle du jeu, p. 1296 Cette étude considère L’Espace littéraire de Maurice Blanchot comme une argumentation en faveur de l’idée que l’œuvre crée un espace, espace dont une caractéristique essentielle est celle d’arracher l’auteur, comme le lecteur, au temps quotidien, de le..
Argumentation as the public exchange of reasons is widely thought to enhance deliberative interac... more Argumentation as the public exchange of reasons is widely thought to enhance deliberative interactions that generate and justify reasonable public policies. Adopting an argumentation-theoretic perspective, we survey the norms that should govern public argumentation and address some of the complexities that scholarly treatments have identified. Our focus is on norms associated with the ideals of correctness and participation as sources of a politically legitimate deliberative outcome. In principle, both ideals are mutually coherent. If the information needed for a correct deliberative outcome is distributed among agents, then maximising participation increases information diversity. But both ideals can also be in tension. If participants lack competence or are prone to biases, a correct deliberative outcome requires limiting participation. The central question for public argumentation, therefore, is how to strike a balance between both ideals. Rather than advocating a preferred norma...
The argumentative technique of dissociation consists of redefining a term used in discourse in a ... more The argumentative technique of dissociation consists of redefining a term used in discourse in a particular communicative situation. This strategy may allow the speaker to use the emotional potential corresponding to certain specific terms or the emotional potential of real-life situations and events whether witnessed, reported or presented in fiction. With regard to the rhetorical situation(s) considered in the present study, the virtual audience may be reconstructed in the analysis as having access to three types of discourse: 1) official historiography, prone at times to highlight a nation's moments of glory; 2) various discourses, some of which emanate from historians, which highlight less familiar aspects (negative, and/or having little to do with heroism) of Romanian nation-building, or else voice scepticism concerning national identity or even contempt with respect to the Romanians' behaviour and/or their destiny; 3) reactions of a historian to such comments, in which...
Filologia modernă: realizări şi perspective în context european, Eugeniu Coșeriu: 100 de ani de la naștere. Limbajul ca sumă de valori, 2021
Limba română ca limbă străină este o disciplină academică a cărei predare în universități din lum... more Limba română ca limbă străină este o disciplină academică a cărei predare în universități din lume se asociază adesea cu studiul culturii române, fie ca discipline independente, fie în mod integrat. Din 2013 până în prezent, la Universitatea Johannes Gutenberg din Mainz (JGUM), disciplinele Limba română ca limbă străină și Introducere în cultura română se predau studenților din domeniul filologic și din orice facultate a universității sau din universități partenere ale JGUM la nivel de licență, master, doctorat și post-doc, inclusiv studenți Erasmus prin intermediul activităților organizate de Lectoratul Institutului Limbii Române la Mainz. În formarea competențelor lingvistice de română ale cursanților, sunt aplicate principii tradiționale și recente ale didacticii limbilor străine, ale pragma-lingvisticii vizându-se performanțe lingvistice ale cursanților de nivel A2, B1-B2, C1, în conformitate cu Cadrul european de referință pentru limbi (CECRL) precum și competențe specifice de ...
This position paper of Working Group 2 of the European Network for Argumentation and Public Polic... more This position paper of Working Group 2 of the European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis (COST Action CA17132; https://publicpolicyargument.eu) reviews goals and functions of public argumentation. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, the paper introduces basic distinctions and charts out options. It is meant to guide reflection on the conceptual basis for the Action’s subsequent research regarding the analysis, evaluation, and design of public argumentation.
This is a brief presentation of the methodology of a study in progress for identifying rhetorical... more This is a brief presentation of the methodology of a study in progress for identifying rhetorical strategies used in CSR reports having to deal with risk issues. It presents the conceptual approach of a study meant to analyze excerpts of CSR reports for 2012 of several US large companies. The analysis is rooted in discourse analysis and rhetorical theory. The focus of the study is the way in which the company addresses the stakeholders so as to argue implicitly in favor of the company’s preoccupation for risk prevention, elimination of various hazards, counter balancing negative consequences and effects of the company’s activity. The study discusses anticipates on possible findings to be later valued in the field of Business Ethics.
This paper provides limited but new details on the rhetoric of Chief Executive Officers’ letters ... more This paper provides limited but new details on the rhetoric of Chief Executive Officers’ letters to stakeholders. We analyze CEOs’ letters to which introduce Corporate Social Responsibility reports for 2012 of several US large companies. The analysis is rooted in discourse analysis, rhetoric, and the theory of argumentation. It yields significant results to be later valued in the field of Business Ethics.
In the framework of the extended pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, Corporate Social Res... more In the framework of the extended pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting is approached in this study as a particular communicative activity type, which can be reconstructed as part of a critical discussion. CSR reports excerpts are viewed in the analysis as parts of a virtual critical discussion in which a company acts as a protagonist maneuvering strategically to defend the standpoint according to which the business is operated ethically, and to convince the audience about what is mentioned in the standpoint. The reconstructed standpoint of a CSR report,We are doing business responsibly, may be regarded as stereotypical, since it corresponds to the institutional point of this regulated type of communicative activity. In the first part of the study, a brief overview is given of the CSR reporting activity, then the concept of strategic maneuvering is presented, under its three aspects (topical potential, audience demand, and present...
This position paper of Working Group 2 of the European Network for Argumentation and Public Polic... more This position paper of Working Group 2 of the European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis (COST Action CA17132; https://publicpolicyargument.eu) reviews goals and functions of public argumentation. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, the paper introduces basic distinctions and charts out options. It is meant to guide reflection on the conceptual basis for the Action's subsequent research regarding the analysis, evaluation, and design of public argumentation. Co-authors: Abreu, P., Nova University of Lisbon, Nova Institute of Philosophy, Lisbon, Portugal; Bengtsson, M., Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark; Castro, D, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Cooke, M., School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Ireland; Danka, I., Budapest University of Technology and Economics/John von Neumann University, Budapest/Kecskemet, Hungary; De Cock, B., Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Dutilh Novaes, C., Department of P...
Predarea, receptarea și evaluarea limbii române ca limbă străină. Actualitate și perspectivă. Ed. Ioana Jieanu, Loredana Netedu & Paul Nanu. Turku: Universitatea din Turku, Kieli- ja käännöstieteiden laitos., Oct 31, 2020
This study makes suggestions about using the Microsoft Teams platform, Office applications and t... more This study makes suggestions about using the Microsoft Teams platform, Office applications and the corresponding digital tools and facilities available in the academic setting from the methodologist’s and the language teacher’s perspective. The study is concerned with foreign language teaching and learning (FLTL, in this case Romanian) in a university setting in the framework of the European referential and standards for language proficiency. Two aspects have been identified as significant with respect to maintaining student and teacher motivation and to ensuring pedagogical success, as well as innovative integration of computer-assisted language learning tools in the pedagogical action. The former presents the integration of linguistic and pedagogical inputs into one single Microsoft Word document to be shared during the virtual class in order to ensure focus on various practices of communicative competence without digital interface change and to enhance retention of linguistic content. The latter approaches group work in various channels created within Microsoft Teams.
Cet article propose des réflexions personnelles à propos de quelques expressions à caractère plus... more Cet article propose des réflexions personnelles à propos de quelques expressions à caractère plus ou moins figé, qui ont pour contenu sémantique celui de fournir des précisions sur la source de l’information. Ces expressions couvrent le domaine des perceptions sensorielles. Les considérations qui les concernent traitent de leur fonctionnement stylistique, sémantique, pragmatique et rhétorique. À travers les commentaires proposés est aussi examinée la façon dont l’expression en question se construit au niveau lexical, afin d’explorer: a) la manière dont se constitue son sens; b) son agencement stylistique; c) la façon dont ces expressions contribuent aux efforts du locuteur d’obtenir l’adhésion de l’interlocuteur et/ou du public; d) son potentiel illocutoire et pragmatique. Ces remarques ont pour point de départ l’exposé au sujet du non–trope pléonasme fait par Pierre Fontanier dans "Les figures du discours" (1827-1830). Les expressions concernées par les commentaires qui s...
This position paper of Working Group 2 of the European Network for Argumentation and Public Polic... more This position paper of Working Group 2 of the European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis (COST Action CA17132; https://publicpolicyargument.eu) reviews goals and functions of public argumentation. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, the paper introduces basic distinctions and charts out options. It is meant to guide reflection on the conceptual basis for the Action’s subsequent research regarding the analysis, evaluation, and design of public argumentation.
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