Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Individual presentation

  Individual presentations will last 25 minutes, followed by a 5 minute question session. Contributors will need to tie their presentation with one or two of the conference themes, as described above. The deadline for submission is April 30, 2021.

  Abstracts should not be more than 400 words; they must (i) clearly state the research question, (ii) include a brief description of the theoretical framework and of the methodology adopted by the author and (iii) highlight the originality of the proposal.

• Panel

  Panels are 2 hour long thematic sessions. They are divided in three 20-minute presentations and are followed by a 30 minute discussion slot (to take place at the end of the panel or in its course). Panel convenors are responsible for the organisation of both the thematic coherence and the logistic articulation of the panel in order to ensure that it fits the general orientation of the conference.

  Panel proposals will contain a general description and the abstracts of the three papers to be presented. Panel proposals can be submitted until March 15, 2021.

  The general description of the panel and the abstracts should not exceed the 400 words limit each. As for individual presentations, these must (i) clearly state the research question, (ii) include a brief description of the theoretical framework and of the methodology adopted by the author and (iii) highlight the originality of the proposal.

List of Topics

• Linguistic description of argumentation schemes

  Since Perelman, argumentative schemes or types of argument are part of the DNA of argumentation theory. While the notion of scheme is closely linked to the philosophical approach to argumentation, its linguistic dimension is the subject of several recent studies, whether on the straw man fallacy, the appeal to popularity or the argument of reciprocity. This illustrates the richness of the interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy and the language sciences on argumentation.

• Argumentation and pragmatics

  Pragmatics and argumentation have always had a close relationship, as evidenced for example by the speech act-theoretic foundations of pragma-dialectics. Cognitive science is closely concerned with questions relating to argumentation and its effects, which are the result of inferential mechanisms and language instructions. The perlocutionary dimension of argumentation is accordingly at the center of this sub-theme.

• Argumentation beyond connectives and beyond words

  All argumentation manuals recommend the identification of logical and argumentative connectives in the analysis of argumentation. However, on the one hand, only a minority of naturally-occurring statements are connected by them, and many scholars claim that argumentation cannot be reduced to these language markers alone on the other. Research about the multimodality of argumentation envisages the act of arguing beyond words, while others argue for the idea that the semantics of words themselves guide argumentation. This is not without echoing the position of J.-B. Grize's natural logic, to which a conference on argumentation in Neuchâtel cannot fail to pay tribute. The richness of argumentation beyond words poses numerous problems in argument mining, due to the absence (or ambiguity) of linguistic markers. The organisers accordingly welcome contributions in this field to illustrate the difficulties to which this approach is confronted.

Committees

Local organising committee

• Thierry Herman
• Léa Farine
• Diane Liberatore

Steering Board committee

• CoRReA (Collectif Romand de Recherches sur l’Argumentation)
• Thierry Herman (UNINE)
• Jérôme Jacquin (UNIL)
• Steve Oswald (UNIFR)
• Sara Greco (USI)
• Johanna Miecznikowski (USI)
• Andrea Rocci (USI)

Scientific committee

Ruth Amossy, Corina Andone, Lilian Bermejo-Luque, Katarzyna Budzynska, Sara Cigada, Arnulf Deppermann, Louis de Saussure, Marianne Doury, Michel Dufour, Bart Garssen, Sara Greco, Jean Goodwin, Ton van Haaften, Chris Hart, Thierry Herman, Martin Hinton, Jos Hornikx, Jérôme Jacquin, Manfred Kienpointner, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Marcin Lewinski, Martin Luginbühl, Fabrizio Macagno, Didier Maillat, Hugo Mercier, Raphaël Micheli, Johanna Miecznikowski, Dima Mohammed, Elena Musi, Steve Oswald, Manuel Padilla-Cruz, Fabio Paglieri, Rudi Palmieri, Christian Plantin, François Provenzano, Andrea Rocci, Corinne Rossari, Cristián Santibanez, Dimitris Serafis, Manfred Stede, Christopher Tindale, Assimakis Tseronis, Emma van Bijnen, Jan Albert van Laar, Maarten van Leeuwen, Jean Wagemans, Marta Zampa, David Zarefsky

Invited Speakers

• Henrike Jansen (University of Leiden)
• Chris Reed (University of Dundee)
• Andrea Rocci (Università della Svizzera italiana)
• Sandrine Zufferey (University of Bern)

Venue

The conference will be held in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

The conference is currently planned as an "in-person" event, with the possibility of switching to a hybrid format depending on the global sanitary situation. It will take place at the University of Neuchâtel.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Argage.Conference@unine.ch

Sponsors

University of Neuchâtel