Maurice Charland is Professor at the Department of
Communication Studies at Concordia University, Canada. He is a rhetorical
theorist and critic, where rhetoric is the study of forms of civic discourse.
His areas of specialty are the relationship of rhetoric to political theory, the
philosophy of rhetoric, the rhetoric of constitutions, and Canadian public
address. He is primarily concerned with the way in which rhetoric constitutes
the basic categories for political community and practical judgment. At the
conference, Prof. Charland will speak about his current research, which is on
the relationship of constitutive rhetoric to the rhetoric of "impiety". Thus,
Prof. Charland will give his speech within the theme of Rhetoric in Political
Discourse.
For more information onf Maurice Charland,
please consult
this
webpage
John Wilson
is Professor of
Communication and Director of the USS Research Institute at the University of
Ulster. His main research interest is in the discursive and pragmatic
construction of everyday language, in particular all aspects of political
language. He has published a broad range of articles and books on this topic,
and his latest book (with Karyn Stapleton) is entitled Devolution and
Identity. This is published by Ashgate and will available from late
September 2006. At this conference, John Wilson will be speaking on
Rhetoric in Journalistic Discourse.
For more information of John Wilson and his research, please consult
this webpage.
Professor
Anne Marie Bülow-Møller
teaches at the Copenhagen
Business School. Originally appointed to a chair in English, she now teaches
interpersonal communication, negotiation studies, and organizational
communication in the department of International Culture and Communication
Studies. She is currently writing on notions of dialogue in international
negotiations.
She is a member of the Danish State Agency for Research’s committee for the
humanities, FKK, and represents Denmark in COST, the European Science
Foundation’s network organization, in the domains of Humanities and Social
Sciences.
For more information of Anne Marie Bülow-Møller and her research, please consult
this webpage.