Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing - Volume 37, Issue 3, 2015

Abstract News video clips in political interviews in TV talk shows. A conversation analysis of the effects of the screening of a film on the first question-answer sequence This contribution deals with the effects of the increasing use of video clips on television interviews with politicians, in particular concerning the realisation of question-answer sequences after the screening of a video clip. It investigates how these clips sup Read More

Abstract Advertising utterances make abundant use of rhetorical figures, of creative, deviant ways of communicating an ad message, such as rhyme, wordplay and metaphor. Ample research has been conducted on the effects of rhetorical figures. However, an unanswered question deals with the motives of advertising agency personnel (such as the creative team) for using rhetorical figures. Previous studies only examine Read More

Abstract The formalisation of critical discussion in preparation of automated argumentation analysis In contribution to the research on the intersection of argumentation theory and computer science, in this paper a formal approximation is developed of the discussion model that is at the core of the pragma-dialectical analytical method. The aim of the project is to prepare a foundation for the development of software Read More