In light of the ongoing public controversy surrounding fashion sustainability, this paper sets
out to identify misalignments that relate to the definitions of sustainable fashion. It does so by …

I challenge two key assumptions of speech act theory, as applied to argumentation:
illocutionary monism, grounded in the idea each utterance has only one (primary) …

In their book Commitment in Dialogue, Walton and Krabbe claim that formal dialogue
systems for conversational argumentation are “not very realistic and not easy to apply”. This …

Framing involves the positive or negative presentation of an argument or issue depending
on the audience and goal of the speaker (Entman 1983). Differences in lexical framing, the …

In this article I study the constraints and opportunities available to decision-makers in an
institutional context (a county council), by analyzing the deliberative process that led to the …

Ethotic arguments, such as arguments from expert opinion and ad hominem arguments, play
an important role in communication practice. In this paper, we argue that there is another …

A case study of a short televised debate between a climate scientist and an advocate for
climate skepticism provides the basis for developing a contemporary conception of …

Collective, historical memory becomes increasingly important in public debates on cultural
heritage across many countries. Their key elements are contested cultural objects–such as …

In this paper, we analyze the argumentative strategies deployed in the Ecomodernist
Manifesto, published in 2015 by a group of leading environmental thinkers. We draw on …

The advent of the Networked Society has revolutionised the way public discourse is shaped
and negotiated leading to increased access to both information and (dis)-(mis) information …