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Commentary On 'Acts Of Ostension', Paul L. Simard Smith May 2016

Commentary On 'Acts Of Ostension', Paul L. Simard Smith

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Commentary On “On Appeals To (Visual) Models”: Appeals To Visual Models – An Epistemological Reconstruction Of An Argument Type, Christoph Lumer May 2016

Commentary On “On Appeals To (Visual) Models”: Appeals To Visual Models – An Epistemological Reconstruction Of An Argument Type, Christoph Lumer

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Compassion, Authority And Baby Talk: Prosody And Objectivity, Leo Groarke, Gabrijela Kišiček May 2016

Compassion, Authority And Baby Talk: Prosody And Objectivity, Leo Groarke, Gabrijela Kišiček

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Recent work on multimodal argumentation has explored facets of argumentation which have no obvious analogue in the written arguments which were emphasized in traditional accounts of argument. One of these facets is prosody: the structure and quality of the sound of spoken language. Prosodic features include pitch, temporal structure, pronunciation, loudness and voice quality, rhythm, emphasis and accent. In this paper, we explore the ways that prosodic features may be invoked in arguing.


Acts Of Ostension, Hubert Marraud May 2016

Acts Of Ostension, Hubert Marraud

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I will analyze the role of ostension in argumentation. Ostension involves gestures, bearing, postures, facial expressions, etc.; thus it can be argued that ostension can introduce non-verbal modes of argument, giving rise to multimodal arguments (Groarke 2014). Acts of ostension can be considered as a kind of speech acts according to the account in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations §27. As such they can provide the premises of a certain sort of arguments (which I term arguments by ostension). We have to distinguish the proper act of ostension from both its content and the object of ostension. While the latter can …