Environmental Argumentation
Edited by Marcin Lewiński and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 8:1 (2019) v, 171 pp.
Mehmet Ali Üzelgün
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mehmet Ali Üzelgün plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2024 A proposal for the evaluation of multimodal argumentation: Assessing reasonableness and effectiveness in environmental campaign posters Multimodal Argumentation: Special issue of the Journal of Argumentation in Context 13:2 (2024), Stöckl, Hartmut and Assimakis Tseronis (eds.), pp. 292–317 | Article
We argue that the evaluation of multimodal arguments needs to take into account the semiotic resources used to communicate them as well as the context in which they are produced and interpreted. Thus, in addition to the critical questions pertaining to the scheme that help assess the internal… read more
2024 Assessing coherence and fidelity: Credibility of COVID-19 narratives Narrative Inquiry: Online-First Articles | Article
Non-fictional narratives have an open-ended character that projects roles and values to those who participate in them. Narrative participation, in turn, entails narrative assessment and identification processes, through which adherence to values and positions may fail or be achieved. In the… read more
2019 Environmental argumentation Environmental Argumentation, Lewiński, Marcin and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Introduction
2019 Environmental manifestoes: Argumentative strategies in the Ecomodernist Manifesto Environmental Argumentation, Lewiński, Marcin and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün (eds.), pp. 12–39 | Article
In this paper, we analyze the argumentative strategies deployed in the Ecomodernist Manifesto, published in 2015 by a group of leading environmental thinkers. We draw on pragma-dialectics and Perelman’s rhetoric to characterize manifesto as a genre of practical argumentation. Our goal is to… read more