Past Events

February 22, 2005
G. Thomas Goodnight
The Nuclear Age as Argument Formation: On Rhetorical Construction and Epochal Change

May 6, 2005
Informal Workshop on metaphors
Eric Blanchard, Ben Andrews, Alba Hesselroth, Paul Levin, and Fleur van der Houwen

April 5, 2005
Andrew S. Gordon
Institute for Creative Technologies
"Commonsense psychology in storytelling: Examples from stories of leadership in the US Army" (Abstract). A talk related paper: Gordon, Andrew S. & Hobbs, Jerry R. (2004) Formalizations of Commonsense Psychology (.pdf). AI Magazine 25(4):49-62.

March 22, 2005 (1 hour and 2 minutes)
Edward Slingerland, School of Religion and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Eric Blanchard & Lyn Boyd-Judson, School of International Relations.
Collision with China: Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of the EP3 Incident (.doc). Additional paper: Slingerland 2005 "Conceptual Blending, Somatic Marking, and Normativity: A Case Example from Ancient Chinese"(.doc)

March 8, 2005
Sally Jackson & Scott Jacobs
University of Arizona
Pragmatic and Dialectical Features of Argumentation Design
Talk related reading: "Rhetoric and Dialectic from the Standpoint of Normative Pragmatics" (.pdf).

February 22, 2005
Discourse analysis means doing analyses: A critique of six analytical shortcomings (.html) a panel discussion Ed Finegan, Jolanta Aritz, and Fleur van der Houwen

November 17, 2004
Bilyana Martinovsky
Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT)
Communication as Reproduction of Self vs. Ethics of Otherness (.doc)

October 19, 2004
G. Thomas Goodnight
Annenberg School of Communication
Cherry-Picking, Stove-Piping, and Vietnam in the Context of the Iraq Controversy: Recoining Metaphors as Argument Games (.doc)”
Talk related reading
"Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam” Metaphors in Controversy: On Public Debate and Deliberative Analogy (.doc)

September 15, 2004
Hayward R. Alker
McCone Professor of International Relations
Chains of Argument in Political Debates (.doc)”