I'm a linguist who specialises in the study of meaning (pragmatics) and who is interested in argumentative, persuasive and deceptive phenomena in discourse
Fribourg, Switzerland
Joined November 2012
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I'm very happy to share the 1st of a series of 3 popularization videos (in French) about my field of expertise, pragmatics. Feel free to like, share and subscribe to the channel! Many thanks to @LouNoahOdermatt for working on this with me!
youtu.be/LjeQG4biRw0?feature… via @YouTube
I put down some thoughts about last week's US presidential debate, and Le Temps published them letemps.ch/opinions/le-debat…
I briefly mentioned permissibility norms and confirmation bias (without really getting into the details) in a quick interview for the Swiss national radio today (around min 9): rts.ch/play/radio/redirect/d… – at Marly, Suisse
Coincidence? No one has shown that it wasn't ! Ready for my talk on ad ignorantiam and conspiracy theories at #cadaad2024 tomorrow 😃 – at Poznan, Poland
Native speakers of English: would you have some 20-30 mins to help one of my students out by filling in this survey? Please also distribute further if you know people who might be willing to help science! :) neuchatel.eu.qualtrics.com/j…
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N'oubliez pas de reformuler les propos de vos adversaires si vous tenez à les convaincre! shorturl.at/tMO02 #Unifr #AlmaGeorges #reformulation #frhappy
It finally happened: today I was asked to review a (short) paper on a new and "disruptive" research exchange platform in which the author basically copy-pastes chatGPT's response to one of his earlier papers on the meaning of life (I kid you not)...
...The point is to show that chatGPT can help in being less subjective. Perhaps I'll ask chatGPT to review that paper - so to review its own production - and submit it as a way of improving objectivity in peer-reviewing, I don't know.
The special issue on 'Pragmatics and Argumentation' guest edited by yours truly is now available as a reprint. The full volume is freely downloadable as a pdf from the publisher's website and a print version will be available for purchase very soon. mdpi.com/books/book/7990
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Today @raybbecker led discussion of the article "Rephrasing is not arguing, but it is still persuasive: An experimental approach to perlocutionary effects of rephrase" by Ramy Younis et al. @TweetOSteve
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Happy to be participating to this event!
The goal of this workshop is to develop comprehensive conceptualizations and explanations of the core principles of qualitative research in the field. bit.ly/3oPjwEX @NIAS_KNAW @UvA_Humanities @ArgtweetSara @KHannken @MHReijven
Steve O retweeted
The goal of this workshop is to develop comprehensive conceptualizations and explanations of the core principles of qualitative research in the field. bit.ly/3oPjwEX @NIAS_KNAW @UvA_Humanities @ArgtweetSara @KHannken @MHReijven
An interview with UNIMIX, the students' radio here at the University of Fribourg. Thanks Ryan and @LouNoahOdermatt for the invitation and the very nice discussion! youtu.be/bsoiTgieH98
A summary of what we've been up to for the past 4.5 years in our COST Action on public policy argumentation youtu.be/kWPSsyc_Wj4
Last paper of the year now out, in collaboration with my PhD student, Daniel. Really happy about this!
mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/1/6
This just out! The paper provides an overview of the way pragmatic research (of the inferential blend) has been used in argumentation scholarship over the past half-century (open access). doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.202…
I was briefly interviewed about fake news, post-truth and conspiracy theories this morning on Radio Fribourg 🙂 radiofr.ch/fribourg/podcasts…