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2020

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Coding Empathy, Fabrizio Macagno, Chrysi Rapanta Jun 2020

Coding Empathy, Fabrizio Macagno, Chrysi Rapanta

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In rhetoric, empathy – the ability to put oneself inside the interlocutor’s position in an argument – has been considered as the bridge between the orator and the interlocutors. Despite its crucial importance, no studies have addressed the challenge of operationalizing this concept, translating it into proxies that can be used for determining how empathic a dialogue is. This paper intends to propose a coding scheme for capturing two dimensions of empathy in dialogue – otherness and relevance.


Commentary On Jarmila Bubikova-Moan’S “Unpacking The Narrative-Argumentative Conundrum: Story Credibility Revisited”, Paula Olmos Jun 2020

Commentary On Jarmila Bubikova-Moan’S “Unpacking The Narrative-Argumentative Conundrum: Story Credibility Revisited”, Paula Olmos

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Commentary on Jarmila Bubikova-Moan’s “Unpacking the narrative-argumentative conundrum: story credibility revisited”


Unpacking The Narrative-Argumentative Conundrum: Story Credibility Revisited, Jarmila Bubikova-Moan Jun 2020

Unpacking The Narrative-Argumentative Conundrum: Story Credibility Revisited, Jarmila Bubikova-Moan

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Building on a view of both narration and argumentation as dynamic concepts, the aim of this paper is to argue that story credibility remains a core issue in the debate on the argumentative quality of narratives, yet one that the dynamic perspective has not interrogated in sufficient detail. To illustrate, I will draw on empirical examples from research interviews with adult migrants to Norway on their learning and using Norwegian as a second language.